Wiring question

On my bike my ignition circuit is white from the keyed switch to the kill switch, yellow-white from there to the pin connector, changes to blue-white at connector to the ballast resistor. From the Ballast resistor it changes to purple-white to the coils. The purple-white wire goes to the first coil, jumps to the second and then leaves there to go back into the main harness. It reappears on the right rear frame tube just above the zener diode. It just dead ends there in a spade terminal.
There is also a red-white (might be red-yellow) in the same location.

Anybody have any idea what those connectors are for?

I want to get rid of unneeded wire, but I dont really want to take the whole harness apart. I hate cutting wires and leaving them in the harness even more when I don't know what else they might be hooked to.

Thanx
Russ

rvich said:

On my bike my ignition circuit is white from the keyed switch to the kill switch, yellow-white from there to the pin connector, changes to blue-white at connector to the ballast resistor. From the Ballast resistor it changes to purple-white to the coils. The purple-white wire goes to the first coil, jumps to the second and then leaves there to go back into the main harness. It reappears on the right rear frame tube just above the zener diode. It just dead ends there in a spade terminal.
There is also a red-white (might be red-yellow) in the same location.

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The "purple-white" (white/purple? = white wire with a purple or violet tracer) from the coils, and any "red-white" (white/red? = white with red tracer) harness wires are starter motor solenoid circuit wires, so they are unnecessary on any pre-MkIII model.

I cleaned out about half a shoe box full of extra wires and loops
in standard harness that only applied to police use for radio's,
Sirens lights and what not.
I think I made a written note of the colors to discard, but
know that most of them involved excess red ground wires.
Must shut down now, will hunt tomorrow.
Oh wait, the manual diagrams can guide ya when inspected close.
But its such a tangle it's about impossible to do without
taking whole harness apart.

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hobot

It never occured to me to look at the MKIII diagram. I see the white-red wire runs thru the right switch cluster and has a normally open switch. Is that the starter button? Wow! I have some MKIII parts on my bike...maybe I will find a starter in there somewhere.

Russ

Yes, you do. Attach the White/red to the Kick Start Lever and you have an electric Kick Start Lever. Works great, hard part is getting the solder to stick to the lever.

L.A.B showed me. The man’s a genius.

Actually I am trying to think of something useful for the white-red wire. Like shooting bullets at tail-gating cars. Or a smoke screen for those pesky traffic cameras. If I don't come up with something pretty soon, I will remove it.

I"m either going to use it or the horn button to fire full auto
paint marker guns and also trigger video to share laughing
my ass off at deer falling and stumbling over themselves
getting out the way of what's stinging and exploding in
bright colors all over their damn hides.

An exhaust flame thrower is a feature I've got hankering for,
will use the ignition guts out of a small stun gun to fire the sparks.

If anyone ever comes across a recording of a female Cougar
scream, the kind that makes hair stand up and toe nails hurt,
ping me I'm in the market.

hobot

hobot said:

If anyone ever comes across a recording of a female Cougar
scream, the kind that makes hair stand up and toe nails hurt,
ping me I'm in the market.

hobot

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There are some bars around here that you'll have no problem finding plenty of cougars. Play your cards right and you might even get a scream out of them.

<for you kids, that's how you hijack a thread!>
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