Topic: Electrical grimlens, Need advise

[justjosh]

   My prob is with a 1975 K5 and i will try and describe it as best as posible. Ok so i have no front marker lights but blinkers front and rear work and i have no tailight but brakelight works so here's a rundown of what happened. I removed my headlight bucket and front blinkers for paint. Everything worked fine before(famous last words). upon reasembly i ran accross a problem in my headlight bucket i have 2 single female connectors that are brown with a red stripe but they dont show on my schematic and i have only one male brown with red stripe. After a few min with the multi meter i got the headlight going, but i have no marker's or tailight. I have no obvious extra wire's that arent connected except for 1solid brown female and thats not on my diagram either so at this point im at a stand still(with 3 days left before i go on a 4day 1100mile ride) Im using a factory original K5 diagram. Thanks in advance
 Josh

[Spanner 1]

Solid brown on your bike is the tail-light hot. the female brown in the bucket should be hot with ign. on as it comes from the ign. switch and goes to another brown in the loom to feed the tail-light fuse and on to the tail light. One brown with red tracer goes to the h/l high/low switch and the second one goes to brown/ white ( yes a color code mis-match, but correct ) to supply h/l power which passes thru' the h/l fuse on the way....all these connections are in the h/l bucket......

[justjosh]

   I got the red and brown prob solved and my headlight works fine but im stumped with the tailight/marker not working and as far as the solid brown wire i dont have anything in my headlight bucket to plug into it.

[Spanner 1]

O.K., your bike has a K6 wire loom which has a spare brown female in the bucket....there should be a brown from the ign. switch connected to a brown from the loom tho' in the bucket . Is your tail-light fuse good?, bulb good ? Is there + volts at each end of the 5A tail-light fuse...a few things to check......

[justjosh]

ok it got wierder, I used emery cloth on the fuse clips to clean them there still nice and tight and gave the batt a charge and replaced all the fuses(a few were looking pretty ragitty) and still no workie heres where im lost. I dont have a straight brown to brown connector in my bucket only the 1 female brown and when i supply power to it i get tailight and marker's so obviously ive got a wire in the wrong spot but what color male wire is supposed to connect to my female brown? and it shouldnt have a k6 loom unless it came with one from the factory and that would be a lil odd. 

[justjosh]

and i have no power on either end of the tailight fuse

[Hush]

At the end of a run of bikes the first new ones sometimes got the last old bits so every now and then you get older model bits on newer bikes.....could be your story.

[justjosh]

   thats a posibility for sure, on saturday im tearing the front end apart for new forks and a set of alloy trees i picked up so i will take it down a lil further and fix the problem then. i will let you know how it turns out