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82 1100 GL plug melted

take one of all 4 sides.. I am at a total loss here.. I cant find any solid orange wire in the harness..I see two orange with white stripes and the one thats highlighted with the red tube tag.. the others look pretty straight forward..white with red tracer to white with red tracer etc etc. And hwat was the wire that was connected with the jumper wire?? It all just basically fell apart when i had to pry the melted plastic apart.
 
Heres the melted plug..its literally fused together. The "plan" was to cut one wire on each side of the plug..use male/ female connectors and rewire it and cut the plug out of the wires..well i got it all jacked up and there was a jumper that went between two wires and i dont know where that goes either.. I dont know if anything downstream got damaged and i suspect i cant tell until i get these wires sorted out so power is routed prioperly..



 
the two jumper..grey and white..what wires are connected to each jumper..that i think is whats messing me up. When i pried the plastic apart they fell out and i didnt get to see what they were jumping together?
 
john..I really appreciate the efforts..i cant follow it in segments as i am scrolling.. I am done with it all. I am not gonna mess with it anyore..I will unly get it worse and make myself all that much more angry. I dont thinkm ahead a lot of the times and if i had i would have got the camera and took pics of it BEFORE trying to resplice the melted mess..now i got a dead bike that pretty much useless to me.
 
Ok..I need to just stop. The one wire harness runs up to the left handle switch with the turn signals switch.. I lost the ball bearings in that switch and i just am compiling more damage..I thank all that tried,but i now have areal mess and its time to part out the bike.
 
chuck hahn said:
Ok..I need to just stop. The one wire harness runs up to the left handle switch with the turn signals switch.. I lost the ball bearings in that switch and i just am compiling more damage..I thank all that tried,but i now have areal mess and its time to part out the bike.
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Ok, just stop and take a break. I just pulled the wiring diagram off Basscliffs. It's confusing and would be frustrating to a color blind person, but it's similar to all bikes of this vintage. Let us know if you decide to carry on- plenty of folks here to help!
 
Tom and John..yeah i would love to get the bike running again. I will now need a used left hand switch to replace the one i ruined this morning. SAnd i was thinking that maybe if someone has an old harness that i could buy the plug from the main wiring harness and put that in the harness. I think that if all the colors match i could ( in theory ) just put the new plug in and then plug in the other left hand switch. I got it all jack out of shape now. I am pretty disappointed with myself right now.
 
chuck hahn said:
Tom and John..yeah i would love to get the bike running again. I will now need a used left hand switch to replace the one i ruined this morning. SAnd i was thinking that maybe if someone has an old harness that i could buy the plug from the main wiring harness and put that in the harness. I think that if all the colors match i could ( in theory ) just put the new plug in and then plug in the other left hand switch. I got it all jack out of shape now. I am pretty disappointed with myself right now.
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Stuff happens! left and/or right switches come up all the time on ebay, I bought one last fall $10. To replace that burnt plug, you could just use individual connectors. Looking quickly,four are all that's needed. That plug had a dummy stator loop (up and back) , but you will eliminate this useless feature when you wire in the new R/R. But please find someone who is not color blind to be your eyes!
 
Tom..I am laughing a bit at myself here..The whole thing started with the intent to eliminate the plug and use individual male/female connectors..thing is when i pried the melted plug apart i got the wires all confused. Then on top of that i lost my grip on the turn signal switch and all the springs and such went flying off in the grass somehwere. I figure that if i can get the left hand switch, then at least i will have one side of the plug with the wires intact. Now i am so skittish becuase i dont want to do any more damage. I think i will talk to the dealership mechanic i know and see if he wants to make a few bucks doing a side job.. cant hurt to ask.
 
John..I just read the part about your colorblindness in shades..Thats what i have too!! I found out when i was 18 and going into the Army.I wanted to be a compouter tech and repairman, but they found the what i actually call "shade blindness". I can see in color..just not shades of the same color.
 
It seems i have procured a complete wiring harness, so thats a direct swap and will have the one end of the melted plug...now if i can get the left handle bar switch i can swap and try it all again.
 
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