There should be 3 wires coming out of them. I’m assuming you still have your stock right-side switches. Oh yeah, and a way to start it because bump-starting sucks. And to turn it off in case the throttle gets stuck open. Also to turn the bike off after you get it started. So you need some kind of switch for that. If you left the 12V power on all the time, you’d drain your battery pretty fast. Cool eh? Unfortunately you can’t just “hook ’em all up” and ride off into the sunset. Notice how there’s only three places any of the wires on the ignitor go: signal generator, coils, and a 12V power source. Starting on the left, this is what each wire does, where it goes: Pick up your ignitor box and look at the wires coming out of it. If you know all of the parts came from the same bike, you might be able to look at the colors and match them up like that, or at least use the colors to be reasonably sure you’ve hooked everything up properly. So the ignitor has to be hooked up to the signal generator and the coils. How the hell do you hook all of that up? Let’s talk about how the bike works.Ī sensor, or pick-up, or signal generator near the crankshaft tells the ignitor when to fire the coils. You need a working ignitor, two coils, a kill switch, a start button, working ignition pick-ups, a working stator, and a working rectifier/regulator. You also need proper connectors to rig everything up.Īnd some extra wire and heat shrink, along with electrical tape. You can find most of what you need on eBay. For this project, you need a way to cut, strip, and crimp wires. You’re dead in the water without the right tools and supplies. Wiring diagrams are confusing, but I’ll do my best to help you out. No problem! I’ll be consulting this wiring diagram as we go. We need to know what we can get rid of, what we can keep. We also need it to have a headlamp, a tail lamp, and a horn. Because the bike is old and carbureted, it wasn’t that difficult to make a new one to run the “bare essentials.” Here’s how I did it.īased on the message, we need the bike to run. That said, it’s a good idea to keep your old wiring harness on hand for reference purposes. I threw the old one in the trash because it was old and mangy. Part of putting that bike back on the road involved building a wiring harness out of a bunch of wires and connectors. Last summer I brought an old GS650GL “back from the dead,” and here’s how it turned out: This fellow found me on, then he found me on Facebook and sent a message.
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