hograt55 Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 Hi there, I'm Hograt from Filey. I acquired a 1968 Ossa Stiletto about 15 yrs ago.I was told it had been stood in a farm building for approx. a further 15 yrs and judging by the amount of cow muck, chicken muck and straw etc. covering it I had no reason to doubt it. Apparantly the farmers sons had used it as a field bike until the clutch wore out. They stripped the clutch and consequently lost all the plates and several other pieces. Having recently ended up with having a lot of time on my hands I decided to renovate the bike. I completely stripped it, taking off all the charlie band and wire that were holding many parts on. I sandblasted the frame and sprayed it with 2k primer, basecoat and lacquer, then started sourcing parts from a vary helpful man called Alex Snoop in the U.S.A. I have had the bike running since the rebuild but never gave a thought as to how I was going to stop the engine when I needed to. Although the carb has been completely stripped and rebuilt with new parts, gaskets and seals etc. when she struck into life for the first time in thirty years it made one hell of a racket and was overrevving. That's when I realised that the only way to stop it was to whip the plug cap off. Effective as that might be it's hardly ideal when everything else works as it should so I acquired a cut off switch. The problem I have now is I don't know how or where to fit it so is there anybody out there who might be able to help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b40rt Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 Most one's I've seen are connected to the wire between the generator and the coil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 Pulling the plug cap off an Ossa is a big no no as it can wreck the electronic ignition. I'm assuming the early Stilletos were fitted with electronic. If so, you got away with it, unless you haven't tried to start it since... If you have the Motoplat electronic, there will be two wires up to the coil, one black to the smaller terminal on the HT coil, one blue to the larger spade terminal. Buy a Yamaha pattern type kill switch from any offroad dealer - J K Hirst, Bultaco UK etc. They have two wires, one goes to earth, the other needs to go to the blue wire terminal on your coil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 Hograt - you've sent me some sort of message to my profile but I can't work out where its gone or how to reply so I'll put it on here. Ossa had electronic ignition back then but I don't know whether it was fitted to the first Stilettos as I've never had one. If you have points on it, which is easy enough to check, and there is only one wire running up to the HT coil, then all you do is connect one wire from the kill button to the coil's spade terminal and the other kill button wire to earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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