Starting a new post, as the old one is dead, I think you might be getting tired of my emegency posts, but my bike isn't running and it makes me sad. My ignition wires broke and then other systems went down in a hurry. Here's my post about the after math -
"So this morning I hooked the ignition back up before heading to work. I was running a few minutes late after making breakfast for the honey, and was in a rush, but did nothing wrong( i think). Hooked the ignition wires back to the harness, bolted the ignition on and shorted the wires. headlights and tail lights come on, not sure about neutral and oil(we'll get to that). Tried the electric ignition and iirc it slowly cranked but unsure of my memory right now. Tried the kick starter, vigorously. It didnt start, but my knee did manage to hit the sidecover, which was already cracked slightly but had been glued back together and was mostly whole.
Its in about 15 tiny pieces now. Id left it outside, but it wasn't a frost night. Guess it was brittle though. Also, when I grabbed the throttle it stuck for a moment and now makes an ugly clicky/cracky sound. I was just checking it, and grabbing a fistful of throttle, appears to have no effect at the other end of the cable, loosening the connection at the bar, the cable is moving there, but not on the other end?
Gave up, stole the fiancees car. She had the day off to catch up on schoolwork. Got home. kicked the engine over and nothing, I'm also getting absolutely nothing out of the starter. Button doesn't seem to be doing anything. Hooked the battery up to the charger and still nothing. Won't kick over either, and I'm not getting a neutral light. Small fuse to the front of the bike looks burnt up, tried swapping it with the middle fuse, lost my headlight but got nothing else back in return. Did I disconnect a wire somewhere accidentally?
So, my ignition wires came undone from the key assembly on friday. I took the ignition off and reinstalled. I now have a broken sidecover, something broken in my throttle grip, a bad starter, dead lights on my instrument panel, and a bad fuse. I think my battery level might be a little low, which seemed odd for a 2 month old battery, but I'm new to this so I'll be getting some distilled water tomorrow.
I was really looking forward to riding in the light snow on wednesday. I went ahead and committed to pay for an old toyota tercel next weekend, so over the next few days I'm going to have to come to grips that my bike is going to have some forced downtime. I was just talking myself in to taking it to a shop for a minor tune-up to check my work, but I don't want to dig up the pile of money to pay for all this little stuff. "
My wiring on the bike is already fairly torn up from the PO, he modified it some for a fairing and swapping out different lighting systems. As suck I have a number of wires that aren't hooked up, I have no turn signals etc.
Anyone have an idea on why my instrument lights have gone out? I'm hoping once I replace the throttle cable I'll be able to give it some gas and get it to kick start.
I have a 76 parts bike and I'm going to check it's harness, if it's in one piece will the 76 harness work on the 75? Is this the wrong step, should I isolate the problem better and get the bike running before swapping the harness?
