Installing Wiring Harness

After getting the wiring harness Monday night, I thought I'd definitely be installing it Tuesday night.  However, I took a little break and watched TV with dinner after getting back from a run.  Little break turned into a long break as I got sucked into watching Mad Max 2 on AMC and then Sons of Anarchy.  I was able to spend a few hours on it tonight though, so I'll share my progress with you.

I was able to install the wiring harness in its entirety. I definitely had to jog my memory and figure out how to place everything since the pictures I took did not really show how I ripped everything apart in the headlight.  I was glad that I had the old wiring harness labelled though, I was able to compare it with the new and figure out where things went.  The new one did seem to have a naked section of wire that may have been repaired at some point; I covered this "Boo-boo" with some red electrical tape "bandaid."

Red Electric Tape shows where the Booboo is

One of the difficulties I had was trying to figure out where the ground of the thermoswitch went.  At first I thought it was the ground to the left coil pack, but after checking out the diagram of spaghetti (wiring diagram) provided by the Haynes manual I decided its definitely the thermoswitch ground.  However this does not help me with where it needs to be bolted to though.  Let me know if you know where this goes.

Where does this ground wire bolt to?

I got all the wiring harness done under the tank, so I put that back on.  I proceeded with cleaning up the wiring in the headlight.  I have everything connected in there except for:

• brown wire- accessory wire?
• black wire- accessory wire?
• two grounds to ?- one for turn signals, the other for accessory?
• a ground from left turn signal
• a ground from right turn signal

So I need to figure out if the brown, black, green are definitely for accessory and then I need to figure out which ground I am supposed to hook the turn signals up to.

With grab rails and rear cowl on, seat makes it look bad.

To finish up the night, I put the tool box and rear inner fender back on and then continued to add the taillight, rear cowl, grab bars, and seat.  It actually looks really decent...without the seat.  This seat is ugly: 1) It's all burnt up, 2) It's an old man style cruiser seat (but it is comfy!)

Looks like I will be taking a week hiatus as I figure out where some of these wires go and source up a battery  so I can try to get this bike started.  I replaced one of the CDI's, I am just hoping that the other one wasn't too badly burned.  Since there is no test for these, I suppose I will just try to start it and if it only runs on two cylinders, I'll know right away that the burned one will need to be replaced.

The CDI's, the one on the left is definitely questionable.