help with wiring up the insturment cluster!!

[dnorth]

Ok, so here's the deal. I bought a basket case 81 gs850g. I have put the entire thing back together and I am now just waiting for the seat to be finished at the upolestry shop! I am turning her into a cafe racer and have redone just about everything on her myself. Now I have run into a major problem. I picked up awhat I thought was a same year insturment cluster from a junkyard and after taking it home cleaning it up and mounting it realized the wiring is different? the plugs dont match uop and my manual isnt much help in this department! I really want to use the insturments since the are now like new but im scared to start cutting wires and not knowing whats what. The colors dont match from the harness to the cluster! any ideas???

[BassCliff]

Greetings and Salutations!!

Hi Mr. dnorth,

I would first identify all the wires coming out from the instrument cluster. Just get yourself a 12v battery and go through each wire and find out what it lights up. You will have the turn signal indicators, the gear position indicators, the high beam indicator, the cluster illumination lights, oil pressure indicator, neutral indicator, ....um, anything else? Then download the factory manual from my site. It may give you a better idea of how to wire it into the harness. You're going to have to replace the molex connectors. See the links in your "mega-welcome" for suppliers of electric connectors and such.

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[dnorth]

follow up.

After further research I now know that the insturment cluster is from a 82' gs850g, & my bike is a 81' gs850g. hence the difference in the connectors. I will review your download now, thanks and ill be follwing up in the morrow!

[dnorth]

follow up #2

BassCliff, I was wondering if I could use terminal connectors in lue of molex replacments. once I find each wires place in the order cut the molex off and attach a male connector to each wire from the main harness and from the insturment harness and then plug and go?? since the problem is the molex connectors differ from 81 to 82?

[Nessism]

BassCliff, I was wondering if I could use terminal connectors in lue of molex replacments. once I find each wires place in the order cut the molex off and attach a male connector to each wire from the main harness and from the insturment harness and then plug and go?? since the problem is the molex connectors differ from 81 to 82?

You can do that or find someone with a trashed cluster and have them snip off the connector plugs so you can graft them onto your cluster by soldering and heatshrinking the wires.