rats, no spark on my new skunk

[wes cooley]

I strongly suggest you try to figure out which wires are part of the factory harness and which ones are not. Figuring out where the wires run on the factory harness is easy using the wiring diagram in the service manual, but all these splices for aftermarket add-ons is what complicates the situation greatly.

Those red bullets are obviously not factory, and the Red and Yellow wires shown in the photos that seem to be grouped together don't look factory either. Most likely those are for the aftermarket electronic ignition so you need to know what each wire does before you start guessing on how to hook them into the factory harness.

wouldn't dare start hooking wires together if i did not know where they originate or conclude.
i ain't no wirin' genuis but i knows better'n to do that.
but the good new is........it started about a half an hour ago. i believe the suspect black wire was not in aforementioned receptacle securely. that rotten little bastard.
ran it on my homemade test tank. an old style ketchup squeeze bottle that i fill up with fuel and squeeze just enough out to fill the carbs and the fuel line up to the filter. had enough puking petcock/carbs dumping fuel on my garage floor to try a balls out first attempt.
motor sounds good. or should i say the motor's quietness while running sounds good.
thanks for the help. case closed.
unless someone has a correct headlight assembly-front turn signals, lower triple tree cover they'd like to sell me.