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Message started by ParkerKane on 06/20/08 at 21:01:21

Title: Wiring Question (with pics now)
Post by ParkerKane on 06/20/08 at 21:01:21

I'm trying to rebuild an old 86 Savage and I am doing ok so far but I have run into a problem. The rear turn signals were ripped off so I got new ones. However the turn signals don't seem to work. The headlight comes on. The brake light works. The front turn signals come on with the headlight and stay on. They do not work with the switch. The rear turn signals don't come on at all. Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Wiring Question
Post by Sandy Koocanusa on 06/20/08 at 21:03:42

Those are running lights in the front. They are separate from the blinkers. I'd start by checking power to and then from the switch.

Title: Re: Wiring Question
Post by Max_Morley on 06/20/08 at 21:05:00

Also make sure you have a flasher unit in it. Max

Title: Re: Wiring Question
Post by ParkerKane on 06/20/08 at 21:29:04

I'll check the power thanks.

Funny thing about that relay thing. I have the pictoral CD from this site (fantastic CD) and for the life of me I can't find the relay and can't figure out where it is supposed to go. I see it in the pictures on the CD but I can't find it on the bike. So maybe I just don't have one. Where the heck would you plug it in though? I don't see any open sockets or anything.

Title: Re: Wiring Question
Post by T Mack 1 on 06/23/08 at 04:58:54

Relay is under the tank.

Also check to make sure you have a Ground connection at the lights. Remember you old school days, you need a complete circuit.

If you don't have a Multi-meter (Voltmeter, Ammeter, Ohmmeter) get one. Seen them as low as $9.99

Title: Re: Wiring Question
Post by thumperclone on 06/23/08 at 11:39:25

473E5E72707822130 wrote:

Relay is under the tank

right side up near the neck...

Title: Re: Wiring Question
Post by ParkerKane on 06/23/08 at 19:42:09

As far as I can tell it isn't on the right side. That's where it is on the picture CD but. . .

I traced the wires from under the seat where the turn signals connect and it seems that it comes to the left side under the tank and into a connector with a bunch of other things (headlight?) Would it be easier if I took a picture?

Title: Re: Wiring Question
Post by ParkerKane on 06/25/08 at 18:07:57

Ok, there are four wires coming from the switch. Blue and black, blue and green/yellow.

They come down to a connector with the horn wires.
http://www.parkerkane.com/ebay/wires.jpg

Then I can trace them down under the seat but only the black and the green/yellow wires are there.
http://www.parkerkane.com/ebay/signals.jpg

The blue wire looks like it goes over to the right side where the relay is supposed to be. Does this look right? Is this where the relay is supposed to be and I just don't have one?
http://www.parkerkane.com/ebay/relay.jpg

Title: Re: Wiring Question (with pics now)
Post by Sandy Koocanusa on 06/25/08 at 18:43:54

I don't know right off the top of my head, but on mine there is a square black box mounted directly in front of and slightly above that round solenoid shown in your last picture (on the right side of the pic). It looks sort of relayish to me. I can't see one in your photo, but it might be just off camera. Is it there?

Title: Re: Wiring Question (with pics now)
Post by ParkerKane on 06/25/08 at 19:25:30

Nope, not off camera. No relay on that side. But I'm assuming that is where is is supposed to go and that is what those wires connect to. But the connectors look nothing like the one on the picture CD.

Anybody with an 86 or 87 that has wires that look like that that connect to the relay?

Title: Re: Wiring Question (with pics now)
Post by Sandy Koocanusa on 06/25/08 at 19:30:26

My '87 is intact at the moment and must stay that way lest I break something before the big trip. I'll go shoot a picture of the '88 and put it up for you to see. Standby about five...

Okay. Here's a picture of that side of my '88. The loose connector that is sticking out toward the camera and looks like an old cigarette butt was just shoved in behind the relay. It was loose. I'm guessing it has no purpose, but I don't know for sure.

The fact is, I don't know anything helpful to tell you, except "here's a picture." I hope it's of some use.

http://a911.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/32/l_a08ec2f8a48de63dc6c625755855ba06.jpg

Title: Re: Wiring Question (with pics now)
Post by ParkerKane on 06/25/08 at 19:57:44

It looks like the big square thing is the relay and the thing under it is the connector?

I don't think I have one of those. Hmmmm