Truck-lite install

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Nah, you got this. I’m assuming you’ve got the factory wiring diagram and are marking things as you go.

[Greg7]

Marking things as I go, yes. Factory wiring diagram, no. Hoping if I need it I can find it online and if I can find it online I'm hoping I will be able to read and understand it. I hate wiring and electrical, I'm terrible at it. Also hoping my mark out is good and I won't need a diagram. There's a whole lot of hoping going on here haha.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

From BikeCliffs Website

Factory Service Manual

https://gsarchive.bwringer.com/mtsac/~cliff/storage/gs/GS1100G-L-K_Manual.pdf

and wiring diagram

https://gsarchive.bwringer.com/bikecliff/images/GS1100G_1982_wiring.jpg

[Greg7]

From BikeCliffs Website

Factory Service Manual

https://gsarchive.bwringer.com/mtsac/~cliff/storage/gs/GS1100G-L-K_Manual.pdf

and wiring diagram
https://gsarchive.bwringer.com/bikec...982_wiring.jpg

Awesome, thank you

[Greg7]

Been working long shifts so I've only been able to work on the wiring for a short amount of time each night. Right now I'm stuck trying to find the other end of one of the splices. I labeled it 11 and can't find the other end marked 11. It's a yellow wire with what looks like a blue tracer.

[Greg7]

I'm guessing these two wires are a ground? If you look at the photo in post number 5 it was bolted to the headlight housing.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Black with white stripe are grounds.

[Greg7]

Black with white stripe are grounds.

Ok thanks. I think I'm going to pull it out of the bucket and ground it to the frame then.

[Greg7]

I hate doing electric....brake light works fine along with the rear left blinker. The front left blinker is dimly lit and the whole right side is dead. Also the turn indicator light is steadily lit with key on.

[Greg7]

If I unplug the front right turn signal it solves the dimly lit left turn signal and turns the indicator light off

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Greg, I wish I could help you, but it’s impossible to trace and test connections over the internet. The PO certainly didn’t make it easy for you to this.

[Greg7]

Greg, I wish I could help you, but it’s impossible to trace and test connections over the internet. The PO certainly didn’t make it easy for you to this.

Definitely not. Multiple wires stuffed in one end of a butt splice connector, others just twisted and taped, wires that were cut and left bare ended...It's such a mess.

And something must have gotten mixed up when I was reconnecting everything because I thought I reconnected the right side signals but that's what was messing up the left side. I don't think there was a ground wire going to the right signal because I cut and reconnected it using a known ground and it made the right side light up but just won't blink.

And the rear right signal is still completely dead.

Quit for tonight. I'll mess with it more tomorrow.

[Greg7]

Ok so I just realized the right rear signal is not completely dead but will flash when I turn the blinker on. And the front right just stays solidly lit.

[rphillips]

Seems odd, I'd have thought the RF & RR hot wires would plug in to a hot with a double female plug, same current going to both at the same time, maybe not. How about disconnecting your RF turn signal ground & running a jump ground from that turn signal to a blot somewhere, that would tell if you were getting a back feed, somehow, thru the ground from the harness. Grounds can do strange things.

[Greg7]

I tried grounding it directly to the frame. Still stays solidly lit. Just won't blink. So I'm guessing the hot I have wired to it is incorrect...there should be a hot that comes off the turn signal switch that would go to it to that only supplies power when activated?? Sounds good in my head but I don't know electrical very well unfortunately.