The bolts under the plugs? Yes. Plugs out. Points/advance weights covers off. I used a 1/4 drive and standard length socket. It won't clearance to get them all the way out, but that's what your fingers are for! Good luck....
I wondered about that. As I said, I haven't found it yet... it goes to the left pod, source of all my current lighting issues.If you mean what looks like a black wire in the center, that's probably a ground for something. Trace it backwards to see what it's coming from. There are a couple double bullet connectors for grounds. You can see the grounds from your headlight and turn signals running to them in your pic. There should be enough connection points for all the ground wires. In fact, I see an open spot in the double bullet that the headlight is ground is connected to.
That one, I found. I got the left signals working by hooking the dark green wire up to the left side chocolate harness, after unplugging the unmistakably chocolate brown wire from the left pod. I did try that black wire in that harness, just in case the colors were off, but it's not the problem.But, examine the wire carefully, maybe clean it too, because one of the turn signal wires is what Yamaha calls "Chocolate", and it is a very dark brown, almost black. It's easily mistaken for a black ground wire. And if it is the "chocolate" turn signal wire, that could explain one side not working. That wire powers the left side signals.
Ah, most excellent answer! I may very well have to do this!To get things really straight, I remove the headlight bucket and insert a length of all-thread between the ears double nutted at each one. Measure the width of the bucket and set the inner nuts on the all-thread at that. Then tighten the outer nuts and it will bend the ears parallel to one another again.
Any of you front end guys got a suggestion for deleting the trim piece across the front with the nameplate on it? Seems like anytime I want to do anything up there it's in the way. E.g cant remove the brake without removing the wheel, forks with it on. Purplezinger did it to his '83 but I wasn't able to figure out just how.
This is, in fact, the problem; I think I mentioned that above.If you're still having trouble with the flashers not working consistently, in the switch on the left bar there are three wires that are soldered into little cups. Those usually need to be resoldered for dependable signals. You'll probably be able to just pull at least one of them out of its cup.
Looks to me like where it goes. I think all those male single bullets are black and ground. (from memory)I noticed a double female plug that only has one male plugged in, I can’t tell the color from this photo.