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Lulu7404
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MODS feel free to delete this thread. Kill switch works differently on these bikes than my new Tiger. Working properly.
82 GS750E, this is what the end of the wiring harness from the right switch box looks like in the head light bucket, two orange/white and one green/yellow
This is the end of a replacement switch assembly that I bought from I believe a GS850 (now that I have looked up other schematics, one of the orange wires is solid orange, other two the same.
I simply spliced them just outside of the new (to me) right switch box,
Either way I splice the two orange wires it will not turn over. The reason I am using the entire new (to me) assembly is that the kill switch unit inside the assembly is different. I am wondering if they changed the wiring around between the two models.
Backup a few weeks, I broke the kill switch in my original switch assembly and just spliced the two orange wires together and it would start.
It was not until I tried to replace the switch assembly with this new(to me) unit that it wall not fire.
I "think" it has something to do with the starter disconnect that the green/yellow wire goes to at the clutch lever. Did all bikes have the disconnect where you have to pull in clutch lever to engage starter motor?
Anyone made a change in right switch assemblies and overcame a similar problem? I am gonna look for a GS1000 schematic to try and figure out what I need to do but in the meantime any advice would be much appreciated.
TIA for any help, I am not an electrician and learning as I go.
82 GS750E, this is what the end of the wiring harness from the right switch box looks like in the head light bucket, two orange/white and one green/yellow
This is the end of a replacement switch assembly that I bought from I believe a GS850 (now that I have looked up other schematics, one of the orange wires is solid orange, other two the same.
I simply spliced them just outside of the new (to me) right switch box,
Either way I splice the two orange wires it will not turn over. The reason I am using the entire new (to me) assembly is that the kill switch unit inside the assembly is different. I am wondering if they changed the wiring around between the two models.
Backup a few weeks, I broke the kill switch in my original switch assembly and just spliced the two orange wires together and it would start.
It was not until I tried to replace the switch assembly with this new(to me) unit that it wall not fire.
I "think" it has something to do with the starter disconnect that the green/yellow wire goes to at the clutch lever. Did all bikes have the disconnect where you have to pull in clutch lever to engage starter motor?
Anyone made a change in right switch assemblies and overcame a similar problem? I am gonna look for a GS1000 schematic to try and figure out what I need to do but in the meantime any advice would be much appreciated.
TIA for any help, I am not an electrician and learning as I go.
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