Am starting to figure out exactly how I will put my "simplified" harness together, after having looked at bunches of the ones shown on here.
(Thanks, btw, to those who contributed those for all to see and use)
Question: the components that show a "ground" symbol by them - can I just run a long wire along the length of the bike, which is grounded to the frame itself, and then connect all these things that need grounding into THAT wire?
Also how can I know what components ground themselves to the frame, just by the way they mount?
Am wondering about the starter motor. It is grounded by making contact to the frame through its mounting bolts?
Also the coil. Am using a Mike's black aftermarket coil on my 80 w/stock ig. Is it supposed to ground through the mounting screws? I think I'd read somewhere (that I can't find now) where the plastic around the metal inserts that the mounting bolts go through, should be ground down a bit to allow the fasteners to contact metal all the way from top of fastener through metal insert and on into mount.
But I see I had a seperate ground wire coming off the coil from "before" - when I had the bike running a few years ago with this coil.
Is either method ok?
Wondering about grounds on reg/rect and alternator....
From looking at this diagram I see these things have the ground symbol:
Tailight
starter switch
battery
alt
reg/rec
starter motor
headlight
tail light headlight and battery, no prob - I understand how to ground them - they get a pigtail to a screw on metal housing, right?
but as far as providing a ground for reg/rec, alt, starter button - can those all connect into one common long grounded wire?
thanks, sorry if this is boneheaded...
(I have been reading the various elec threads but haven't gleaned any info about this, specifically)
what I'd like to do is run about 8 long wires through the frame (a couple will be unused, I guess) and have one of them be a ground wire.
(Thanks, btw, to those who contributed those for all to see and use)
Question: the components that show a "ground" symbol by them - can I just run a long wire along the length of the bike, which is grounded to the frame itself, and then connect all these things that need grounding into THAT wire?
Also how can I know what components ground themselves to the frame, just by the way they mount?
Am wondering about the starter motor. It is grounded by making contact to the frame through its mounting bolts?
Also the coil. Am using a Mike's black aftermarket coil on my 80 w/stock ig. Is it supposed to ground through the mounting screws? I think I'd read somewhere (that I can't find now) where the plastic around the metal inserts that the mounting bolts go through, should be ground down a bit to allow the fasteners to contact metal all the way from top of fastener through metal insert and on into mount.
But I see I had a seperate ground wire coming off the coil from "before" - when I had the bike running a few years ago with this coil.
Is either method ok?
Wondering about grounds on reg/rect and alternator....
From looking at this diagram I see these things have the ground symbol:
Tailight
starter switch
battery
alt
reg/rec
starter motor
headlight
tail light headlight and battery, no prob - I understand how to ground them - they get a pigtail to a screw on metal housing, right?
but as far as providing a ground for reg/rec, alt, starter button - can those all connect into one common long grounded wire?
thanks, sorry if this is boneheaded...
(I have been reading the various elec threads but haven't gleaned any info about this, specifically)
what I'd like to do is run about 8 long wires through the frame (a couple will be unused, I guess) and have one of them be a ground wire.