Oh dear! Am sitting on the horns of a dilemma.
Have been looking at the various wiring diagrams in the Haynes manual and factory XS650E manual. I feel the latter should be more or less correct. To make more legible, have been playing with coloured pens again.
And took a peek at the wiring. Inside the headlamp:
They sort-of kind-of match, but it's a bit of a mess.
The connectors from the ignition switch have been replaced with socket & jack things, which are a bit loose, hidden by insulating tape which is trying to unwrap itself. No surprise there - that's what insulating tape does.
There's a bunch of five black wires tucked into a domestic wiring block with a blue wire - copper partly exposed - earthed to the indicator mount. The pink horn wire has damaged/missing insulation and some of the others aren't very happy. Lot of blue crimped connectors, which look fairly recent.
Tracing the wires further back will mean delving into the harness and unwrapping it all.
So the question I face is, do I try to understand what is in there, maybe tidy up a few connections? Or do I bite the bullet and re-wire the bike from scratch. Pull it all apart one wire at a time, documenting what comes out, end up with a set of wiring diagrams of my own, like I did a few years back with a Triumph. Then simplify, omit some of the safety relays and rebuild the wiring. But it's a lot of work and at my rate of progress?
Need to sleep on it . . .
Have been looking at the various wiring diagrams in the Haynes manual and factory XS650E manual. I feel the latter should be more or less correct. To make more legible, have been playing with coloured pens again.
And took a peek at the wiring. Inside the headlamp:
They sort-of kind-of match, but it's a bit of a mess.
The connectors from the ignition switch have been replaced with socket & jack things, which are a bit loose, hidden by insulating tape which is trying to unwrap itself. No surprise there - that's what insulating tape does.
There's a bunch of five black wires tucked into a domestic wiring block with a blue wire - copper partly exposed - earthed to the indicator mount. The pink horn wire has damaged/missing insulation and some of the others aren't very happy. Lot of blue crimped connectors, which look fairly recent.
Tracing the wires further back will mean delving into the harness and unwrapping it all.
So the question I face is, do I try to understand what is in there, maybe tidy up a few connections? Or do I bite the bullet and re-wire the bike from scratch. Pull it all apart one wire at a time, documenting what comes out, end up with a set of wiring diagrams of my own, like I did a few years back with a Triumph. Then simplify, omit some of the safety relays and rebuild the wiring. But it's a lot of work and at my rate of progress?
Need to sleep on it . . .