swagsherman
XS650 Enthusiast
Hello, it's Wendy again. Now, no spark. Let me explain what I've done and why. Seems like it's something stupid I'm missing again.
Once we got her to charge (thank you again!), still could only start with kickstarter (no electric start). Tested wires and found continuity from button to the connection inside headlight bucket. Also had a mess from the previous owner. He wired in a fuse box and one inline fuse (instead of a 4-fuse box) using different gauge wires. So, my thought was to just replace the wiring harness, take care of green wire problem from before, clean up fuse box, and likely solve push-button start problem.
Plenty of magnetic field after installing new harness (from Mikes XS). However, no spark now, no brake light, no signal lights. I removed the old while installing the new (as opposed to pulling the old one out completely, then starting over with new). All connections seem good. Stator is new (with new wires as well).
Again, seems like some really stupid small error, with big consequences. Always had spark before I attempted to clean things up. What/how should I test things? What/how should I look at?
Once we got her to charge (thank you again!), still could only start with kickstarter (no electric start). Tested wires and found continuity from button to the connection inside headlight bucket. Also had a mess from the previous owner. He wired in a fuse box and one inline fuse (instead of a 4-fuse box) using different gauge wires. So, my thought was to just replace the wiring harness, take care of green wire problem from before, clean up fuse box, and likely solve push-button start problem.
Plenty of magnetic field after installing new harness (from Mikes XS). However, no spark now, no brake light, no signal lights. I removed the old while installing the new (as opposed to pulling the old one out completely, then starting over with new). All connections seem good. Stator is new (with new wires as well).
Again, seems like some really stupid small error, with big consequences. Always had spark before I attempted to clean things up. What/how should I test things? What/how should I look at?