Im facing a tuff choice here.  Im at my breaking point with my bike and its wiring system.  Ive pondered the notion of selling it whole, or as parts.  But here is the ultimatum.  I looked on the pinwall cycle ebay store and the have the original harness for around $30.  If I buy this and hook it up will I still be able to bypass the decomp system and the clutch/sidestand safety system?

Well, its a hairy story.  I got the bike in a trade and the only fought was the starter.  Before it went out, I had it cranked over.  The wiring was bird nested real bad, and instead of a 6 wire rectifire, it has a newer 5 wire one.  after the bobber make over, I tried to follow the bobber diagrams on here and have no luck what so ever.  My key switch wiring also differs from the diagrams.  One diagram says there is red,orange brown and grey.  Mine has two orange, big and small, red and brown.  I was thinking of getting a new ignition switch from lowbrow customs for like $15 or so.  But that is the breakdown of things.  Thanks for the reply, I could use any help I can get.

Yup, maybe 90% of all motorcycle problems have to do
with bad/old/rusty wiring and/or electrical components.

$30 for a "new" electrical system is a steal and well worth it.
The ls650 is a great bike and there are plenty of nearly 30 year
old savages on the road today running with no issues at all.

* And about myself I'm kinda close to spangdahlem but I'm not
with the military, and yes, it's actually pretty nice here, kinda
looks like wisconsin and/or pennsylvania, take a look at this
video I recently posted over at the cafe section and, good luck
with that wiring!

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1273930771    

yeah good idea on the new harness.. for 30$ ya can't go wrong.. it'd probably take close to 30$ worth of wire to build your own harness from scratch.. I could do it too(worked on electric power industrial equipment for 4 years and am an engineer), but I'd opt for the new harness myself if in a similar situation..

Mike, if you have time, sit over the schematics with a hiliter and you will figure it out in 30mins tops. It's not so hard. 5 wire reg/rec makes it even easier. $30 is indeed cheap, but where's the spirit, man?? Whatever you decide - good luck with it.

dasch wrote on 06/09/10 at 11:08:59:


I think the highlighter is what I was looking for while doing it the first 3 times, lol.  So having a 5 wire on an 87 wont be so bad.

Make sure you get the right model year harness. The CDI connectors change.
Not sure about the decomp solenoid, but the kickstand and clutch connector you can cut back to the harness where you can hide it and just solder or tie the two ends together to complete the circuit.

What year harness are you removing? I need a connector that will work on a 97 CDI box to splice into my existing harness.

rgr, Got an 87 at home myself. When I get back I'm looking at putting an engine from a 97 in it, I've got the CDI box for the 97, just got to get the connector and splice it in. I've got plenty of time though.
I've got a bad head in the 87, but I haven't had a chance to look inside the 97 engine. If it's in better shape all around I'll just swap motors. If not I'll just swap the head and I won't have to worry about the connectors.

Good luck with your wiring man.