electrical

I'll be as brief and informative as I can about this because I'm still frustrated as hell. lol This is my first real motorcycle and after three months of restoration I've finally got it started and running. A few days ago I attempted to ride it, or at least fiddle with it in the neighborhood...

I'm very close to wrapping up an '80G I picked up. PO had removed some parts including the wire harness prior to selling it to me. Put harness back on bike, some parts missing, so I don't have the light checker and bypassed reserve lighting unit - L/Y to L/B Everything electrical now...

Hi! Rebuild my bike 4 years ago, always ran great until now. It's not charging and I could really use some help. Running the bike >2000 RPM results in 12,0 V. I have red multiple topics on this forum trying to solve it, but no luck so far. Below a summary of the things I have tried/tested...

Hey everybody. So I have been having problems trying to figure out why by bike isn't charging. I made this video ( see link below.) so that I wouldn't have to try and explain everything. Any questions just ask. It's not the best video but it helps explains what's going on. Just copy and paste...

Rolled the XS out of a 7 yr storage, needed a new battery, sent the wife to get one, in the meantime I had the battery out and hooked up the car battery charger up to the leads to see if everything worked, and cranked it up pretty high, the lights and such worked so i bumped the starter, but no...

has anyone using these? looks intresting any feed back would be great

On my way home this evening, my left turn signal stopped flashing, but the right one was working fine. Then the right one stops. As I get home I see my headlight start to dim. I turn the bike off, check to make sure nothing came unplugged behind the headlight, start it back up and the headlight...

My son got the pma and regulator from Hugh. We wired it up (correctly). I pretty much solder, crimp, and shrink wrap everything. We put on 2 tiny batteries the size of a cigarette pack. They are 0.8 amps each, for a total of 1.6 amps. The bike would start, but run like absolute crap, even at...

I have an XS650 with pamco and E-advancer also the GPZ500 carbs running great, I ungrounded the brushes to install a reg-rec (7 wires) from a XJ650 the issue is that at idle and low RMP the voltage from the reg isn't stable it jumps sometimes to 16 -17 volts for a short period of time and in mid...

Back working on the bike again. Had a question. I removed the floppy rear turn signals and replaced with smaller bullet style signals. The rears look and work great. The problem is on the front signals. I pulled the signals from the headlight, but the new signals don't have a threaded...

I purchased a 3 wire mini voltmeter on eBay. I hooked red to hot, black to ground, and left the white alone. The gauge lights up but doesn't read anything. Am I missing something? I'm not an electrical wizard so I'm sure it's something simple?

You know the ones. . . they have been dropped, bumped and abused to the point the pin holding them is bent or broken. Leaving them at best to rattle on the stalk while riding or at worse turn on the stem till they are pointing at the ground. Perfect candidates for shorting by cutting the stalk...

Does anyone know off hand what bolt size these are? M5 doesn't seem to thread in and I don't want to make a mess of it. Perhaps I have the wrong pitch? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Hey Fellas, I'm a pretty rookie builder and I'm starting my tear down on my 79' XS650 now and wanted to make sure I had some good information before I start getting new parts. I want to make a bare bones electrical system for it. I want to just run a headlight and a tailight; I want to get rid...

Hey guys! working on my first build and first motorcycle. I have some newbie questions for ya that im not sure about might be stupid but im learning thanks! first when i put my clutch cable in i noticed it was tough to pull and the spring wasnt moving then i finally got it to move but it...

Hi, hmm... about a couple of weeks ago, I noticed with my TM34-2 carbs, that the left hand plug were looking allmost as new, only with the tip a little bit colored.. The other plug looked as it should... I though maybe something had changed with the mixture, and got a hint from the forum it...

OK, so here's the deal. I bought an 81 XS650 Special a few months back that had typical charging system issues. Come to find out the rotor had a short circuit in it and was only reading about .2 ohms. So naturally I replace the rotor. And the problem was fixed, My battery was seeing around 14...

so i have 2 questions 1- i bought my 76 XS 650 today it has a bad stator so i'm looking to replace and or upgrade that 2- i can get the bike started and runs well but i don't have working turn signals front or back and my brake light doesnt get brighter when i touch the brakes. could the...

Fitted a PMA to fix my charging drama's, had a couple of year's of trouble free charging but now the stator has died, been trying to buy a new one of Hugh's but can not complete the transaction. For some reason if you don't live in USA or Canada you can not enter your address, have tried...