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Offline VTCBike750

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Wire harness replacement options.
« on: February 09, 2020, 05:34:19 PM »
Thinking of what options there are out there for replacement wire harnesses for a K2, 32100-341-000? Read that there are a few issues with the EMGO/PartsNmore replacement wire harnesses, but this post is from 2012:
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=110284.0

Have they gotten better or are the replacement wire harnesses still about the same? Seems like they are available everywhere, ebay, amazon, CB750Supply, Z1, etc.

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Re: Wire harness replacement options.
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2020, 06:33:28 PM »
I bought the 750K2 harness from PartsNmore for my own bike. It has the correct-for-K2 round plug for the keyswitch, but I have changed mine to be the better K3-K6 style switch with the rectangular plug and larger contacts. So, I must change that plug before I can install the harness. Other than that, it is a good harness: I usually recommend this switch conversion in any case, because the little bullet contacts in the round-plug versions of the K0-K2 bike were a little too small for the bike's loads. It always burns up the contacts on the RED and BLACK wire circuits, over time.

I have another [personal] hard rule that I use in all wiring harnesses for these bikes: I unwrap the harness and check the crimps where the BLACK and GREEN wires join together, for quality. I also run an additional (20 AWG) GREEN and BLACK wire along the entire length of the harness and plug it into a spare BLACK and GREEN at the headlight end, and ground the new GREEN one to the under-seat ground bolt. The new BLACK one gets joined to the harness at the BLACK wire joint to the voltage regulator under the left side cover. Then I re-wrap it all so it looks nice, but I also make my own drop-out sites for a perfect fit to my own bike.

This prevents any tendency to heat up the tiny splice crimps in the harness over time: I plan to ride mine a long time, still, and this approach has prevented any melted wires when the little bullets might corrode, or crack, or split, etc...
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