rats, no spark on my new skunk

[Billy Ricks]

Sorry, you never mentioned white. I'll have a look at my diagram and see what yellow does on my bike. Suzuki kept things the same for years so it probably has the same function for you.

Edit: Yellow is high beam on my bike so it makes no sense it would be involved with a kill switch in your case. If you have a meter check the black wire and see if it's a hot wire. Touch red probe to the wire and black to ground. Of course the black would have to be hot with ignition on.

[resjudicata]

Skunks did not come with electronic ignition did they? If not, then what kind is on the bike? Is it a Dyna or did the PO completely redo the ignition system to install a later factory electronic?

Have you physically traced these wires to see if they go to the ignition cover on the right side of the bike?

Chris

[chuck hahn]

My 78 1000 C has electronic..stock too i believe.

[tkent02]

My 78 1000 C has electronic..stock too i believe.

Mine has points, it wasn't stock.

[Nessism]

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.

[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.