Bad conncetion Ign switch to harness

[Calvin Blackmore]

Hi:

Having fun on ye olde bike of late
but had an odd thing happen saturday

bike refused to start
refused to light up anything

so I open the buckect and check my wiring and giving it a twist the small park light come on making me realize there is an intermittent fault,

Looked at the green plastic connector between the ignition swotch and wiring harness and noted it had a bit of heat distortion

could not seperate the halfs so sniped the wires

tied the orange and red together and got a very bright park light and lo and behold
cranking ans starting like a beast

One of the wires actually pulled out of the grren connector the corrosion had degraded things that badly

it is strange cos I am certain I did this connection with cleaner and dielectric grease a few yres ago


anyway maybe if yah got gremlins bypass the switch completely and do a nice jumpering of the appropriate leads


the ignition circuit makes a heck of a rout throught the system its quite amazing all the many points of failure

now to do the coil relay mod
and get some Gm weatherpack 4 lead connectors for my switch

 

[bwringer]

Amen, brutha! TELL IT! :clap:

(The electrical components are fine on these bikes -- it's the damn connectors and 30 years of corrosion...)

 

[SqDancerLynn1]

I had problems with my Ign switch many years ago. was loosing about 1.5 volts Did a relay MOD so the system would get full voltage

 

[DanTheMan]

That same connector fried on mine, where the switch was on all the time. I removed the connector, it's all connected with heavy weatherproof spade clips there now.

 

[SKD]

LOL. just went through the same repair.:clap:

 

[Matchless]

Replace both sides with a male and female fastin/faston (spade) connector, the pins carrying all the current to and from the switch are just a tad too light to last more than 30 years!