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Things to test… <\/p>\n\n\n\n- Horn<\/li>
- Indicators<\/li>
- Indicators idiot lights<\/li>
- Neutral light<\/li>
- Headlight dip<\/li>
- Headlamp full beam<\/li>
- pass switch<\/li>
- Headlamp full beam idiot light<\/li>
- Rear light<\/li>
- Brake light switch front<\/li>
- Brake light switch rear<\/li>
- Low Oil switch<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Initial test results, these work, everything else doesn’t…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Horn<\/li>
- Headlamp dip<\/li>
- Headlamp full beam<\/li>
- Headlamp Pass switch<\/li>
- Headlamp pilot light<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Further investigation shows…
Rear light is incorrectly wired and the wires are the wrong colour. the colour is because a Suzuki connector male\/female pair have been soldered in instead of the originals. New connectors ordered.
The rear light connector on the loom has two wires connected to earth. This proved to be a short between two soldered wires underneath a bungle of insulating tape.
The connector which accepts the alternator connector from the engine is not the right one. An alternative 4 way has been soldered in and covered with insulating tape. Correct connector on order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_2667-2848x3797.jpg\")
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<\/a>alternator connector bodge<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The indicators don’t work. The auto-cancel box doesn’t work, and the switch in the LHS switchgear doesn’t switch.
The Green\/Yellow wire connecting the front brake switch to the rear light is broken somewhere in the loom, needing the loom to be unwrapped back to where I find the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI’m still not sure why the idiot lights aren’t working. I need to open up the clocks and check the wiring through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So it needs to come apart again, some unwrapping to happen, and this time I will be a little less optimistic and do some static continuity testing.
This loom has clearly had a hard life, and been “repaired” many times over an extended period of time!
I am wondering at this point why I didn’t just accept that I need to spend the cash and buy a new loom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n…but I persevered, and the loom came off the bike, and was unwrapped to see what the damage was inside.
there were a few dodgy repairs inside the bindings, which I remade, and one wire which had completely rotted away from it’s junction, but still connected by green powder.
it passed the full 12V when tested, but as soon as a load was applied the resistance shot through the roof so it passed virtually no current. Certainly not enough to make a 12V idiot bulb give out so much as a glimmer.
This wire was replaced completely, and the whole loom rebound.
I cleaned all the metal plugs and sockets in every connector with a variety of techniques, including acid baths, and much scratching with wet’n’dry, until I could see bare metal on all of the connectors. and gave them all a spritz with WD40 before plugging them together.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLastly, I replaced the tail light connector bodge with a new connector, and fitted the correct connector to the loom for the alternator\/neutral feed from the engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nEverything now works, as far as I can test it… even the two stroke oil low level warning switch and light, with which I am largely unfamiliar having run my bikes on premix for the past 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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