Oh boy, that's a lot of wires.... (headlight bucket questions)

[Guest]

Uhhh. So I replaced my gauges... almost. Should have taken a photo.

The color/shape coded wiring in the bucket is great. But I have several wires, besides the ones I labeled, that have nothing connected to them. For example, the clutch safety switch. I think that's a yellow/green male and yellow green female to two straight yellow female and male matching connectors.

I have one open grey connector, and one double-female black/white wire that had only one wire connected to it before. Maybe there's an additional light that I'm missing or something.

I'll try to read through the wiring diagram a few more times.

If anyone has any photos or suggestions, they're more than welcome.

[Steve]

The gray wire is for gauge lighting or marker lights, which your bike did not have (it's an extra wire).

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[WilliamGLX81]

Ok. Put it back together best as I could see it goes - there's not much choice actually.

It helps if you connect the gear indicator... heh.


Cranks, headlight hi/lo works, turn signals work instrument lights work, front and rear brake switches work, horn works, pretty sure I get spark, but it hasn't been run in ages, so I'll have to prime the carbs and all that malarkey.


The only things that aren't figured out:

There's one grey female connector that has voltage with the key on but doesn't seem to connect to anything.

There's still the male/female pair of yellow/green wires with nothing attached to them.
I can see the pair of wires for the clutch safety slide switch are also yellow/green. Connecting them to each other doesn't do anything - the bike cranks with the clutch in or out, and it didn't before the swap.

[WilliamGLX81]

The gray wire is for gauge lighting or marker lights, which your bike did not have (it's an extra wire).

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Bless you. For that matter, Bless suzuki. I want to add marker lights.

[WilliamGLX81]

Hmmm. Oil light is also not on. That's odd.

[WilliamGLX81]

Sweet. I got it figured out - I had effectively bypassed the clutch safety switch. I had connected a Yellow/green straight to a green wire coming from the starter button, so I just inserted the pair of wires coming from the CS switch between the green and yellow/green and voila! Finished just as it got too dark to work.

Still no oil light though. I wonder if the bulb is burned out.