Whats up guys!
I just bought my very first motorcycle and XS650 and in the process of building it.
With this being my first bike everything is new to me
i recently just purchased a bates style headlight and some turn signals for front and back and also a bates style taillight, I'm needing help on how to wire these together using the stock wiring harness? i have never done any wiring before this will be the first
appreciate the help,
Josh
Oh Josh,
talk about jumping into the deep end.
Solder and shrink sleeve works better than automotive crimp terminals.
(If you had access to milspec wire crimping kit you most likely wouldn't need to ask how to wire things, eh?)
The wiring will be the same for the new lights as those shown for the stock lights on the XS650 wiring diagram although you'll most likely need to make up some adapters to go from the stock wiring terminals to whatever connections are on the new lights.
If you look at the diagrams you'll see that they get more complicated over the years so pick the diagram the same year as your bike.
The hard part will be to cram all the wiring that was inside the stock headlight into the Bates headlight.
Some folks give up on doing that or don't bother trying and put that ratsnest of wire and connectors into a separate container of some kind.
The next little bother will be that unless the new signal lights have 27Watt bulbs in them the stock flasher unit won't work them. A low cost 2-prong automotive flasher will fix that (plugs in 2 ways; one works, t'other don't) but you lose the self canceller.
And be sure and ground
everything. Bad ground is the usual suspect in wiring problems.
On a related topic, get a decent horn. One powerful enough to need a relay to work it.
The stock horn's pathetic bleat plain ol' don't cut it.