Dr. Fishbeck (long since retired long time meterologist for abc los angeles) said "to increase your rate of success you need to increase your rate of failure".

If my screwups were trees, I couldn't see the forrest!  

It's what you do with your failures that tips the balence of fate.

Is it me or doesn't anyone check wires with a meter, or even more conveniently with the bikes power?

Why not just turn the key on with the wires connected and wiggle the wires and try to find the bad connection?  All we know is there was a "hole" in a wire and he pulled the wires out.  Where's the hole and where'd he pull the wires from?

So far everyone's way too technical on this, and we still don't know even a wire color.

I think what concerns me the most is there is now a wire that belongs in the bike that isn't. I don't think I have seen any wires that remove without cutting or making a connector release the wire by reaching into it with a probe & tripping the catch. Im a bit curious as to how this wire will be reinstalled.

Checked the wires, there are no breaks that I could find.

Hiiker.
If no wires are busted, then all that needs done is make sure the insulation is good on them & make sure they go where they are supposed to go.
Do you have a wiring diagram?
Do you have a volt ohm meter?

OK, right or wrong this is what I did. I took off the seat, just so I could see what I was looking at. The silfer bullet shaped housing was cracked an taped. I took of the chrome fender rails, it was easier to take them both off I have a backrest and lugggage rack. II inspected the wires as and couldn't find any broken spots. What I thought was a hole turned out to be a pinch in the insolation. With my limited knowledge, I had done all I felt I could do. I decided to put it all back together and take it to the dealer for repair. After getting it all back together I wanted to check to make sure that what was working before I tool it apart was still working. I turned it on and everything works fine. Turn signals, tail light. I don't know what I did, but it is working for now. Also on the S40 the wires to the turn signals have the two wires going to a single plug for each side, and the broken part was the plastic bullet shaped part.

Just what Justin said....

In the end, you did what we suggested from the beginning of this topic.  Even though you had resigned yourself to go to the dealer (always an undesirable last choice), you managed to fix the problem...and THAT is what this site is all about.

Next time you hear us teasing about the duct tape, you'll really know what we mean.

BTW - the wires for the signals use a double connector now?  Okay.  Good info.  A subtle new change from Savage to Savage40.

Of course, you still have that broken housing.  That's a shame.  I believe that you have to buy the entire unit to fix that, and it ain't cheap.  Maybe something will come up in the Marketplace or on eBay.