test light probed a bunch of wires. The on position on the ignition switch still will run the bike but no lights work...but then when i turn it to the right hand side lock position the lights turn on....When I was driving the bike home the lights worked but then stopped working. Since then I have spliced a wire to make the lights work so I could take it on a small drive just because I was itching to drive it so bad. To me it still has to be the ignition switch since the lights turn on when its to the far right lock position. Bike ran great though for the drives I have been on it with.
The ignition swtich that turns on the headlight and the instrument lights and the ignition does that by putting power on ONE wire (orange) that then goes to the fuse box were that one orange wire connects to the three fuses (head light fuse brown/orange, instrument lights fuse orange/green and ignition fuse orange/white).
Hum, by "all the way to right, lock position" ....
... just looked at my GK just to verify. ....
Hum, Lock is all the way to left (have bars all the way over, then push key in and turn all way to left), and locks bars in position, and all power off.
All the way to right is "Park" which does put Main Power fuse power to the brown wire for the tail light and tail light only (and the power to the head light fuse and the instrument light fuse and ignition fuse should be off.)
Good that you have test light. Put ignition key to on and see if have power to the headlight fuse, the instrument light fuse and the ignition fuse. Try the ignition fuse first since you say that works, so that will be a test of your test light (always good idea to test your tester before thinking something else is bad).
Tell us more what you find.
Does sound like there is an problem with ignition swtich, but it comes and goes. And maybe someone has rewired stuff to try to get around this problem, so things arent normal either. (kinda like what you said you also did).
Try this:
Undo your temperary splice.
Pull headlight fuse.
Pull instrukment light fuse (maybe labled "brake").
Then put key to that Park position (all way to right). SHould get the tail light and tail light only. IF you get the headlight and/or instrument lights, then you will know someone has rewired things.
Put key to on position,
see if have power to headlight fuse, instrument fuse, and ignition fuse. If have power on any of them then ignition swtich okay. IF power on one but not others then problem with fuse block itself. If no power on any of the three, then test for power on the orange wire comming into the connector.
Dave.
OH, I sent you scehamitc of 82 GK. Now i see that there is a difference on teh shematic for 83-84 GK in the area of the ignition swtich.
82 schem shows 4 wires, and the 83-84 shows 6 wires. THe extra 2 wires (and extra position) is for switching the "accessory" on/off.
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