first off, 1976 cb550K.
switched to drag bars over th eweekend and had a bunch ogf fun reconnecting half the wires in the headlamop bucket. two problems: once i reconnected everything on my little list ofwires i had disconnected, i noticed that a brown/white male plug had not place to go and that a female brown end was also hanging. consulting my wiring diagram it looks like the brown female is supposed to hang disconnected -- why i don't know.
also -- my tail light did not light when the bike was powered on. it did, however, light up in the third "parking" position of the ignition switch.
well, i took the headlight back out and traced the tail light to that loose brown female connector. i have poured over the diagram and cannot figure out how the connection from the tail light to the regular on position of the ignition switch is supposed to work.... so i jerry rigged a connection up to the black wires which power the front turn signal/running lights, which are hot in the power on position.
anyhow, the jerry rigged fix worked fine, everything turns on as it should now. but the tail light does not come on in the "park" ignition position and i am left with a nagging feeling that my jerry rig may come back to haunt me.
anyone have any experience with this?
