Steddy58 wrote on 01/12/14 at 12:52:28:Hi,does anyone on the forum have a pic of a 1988 sav coil in position and wired up, many thank yous in advance
Steddy:
I am not sure what trouble you are having? You have 2 photos of a coil wired up and mounted to the bike. The yellow and black wire is on the top terminal, the orange and white wire is on the bottom terminal. There are only two wires to hook up. If the colors on your bike are a bit different....you are correct in figurng the wire that supplies power is on the bottom terminal (orange and white).
As a side note.....when looking at any wire you can most often decode what is going on by color (anything but the 1986 model). Plain red is from the battery without being fused. Red with dashes is fused positive power to the ignition switch or decompression controller. Any plain orange wire is to deliver power to something after passing through the ignition switch - if the orange wire has a white stripe or dashes - then it has also passed through another switch or control (like the starter switch or stop switch). Yellow is the high beam circuit and white is the low beam headlight circuit after passing through the left handlebar switch). Blue is related to the neutral lamp switch and light. When in the turn signal area minty green is the right turn signal power, black is the left turn signal power, the running lights are brown, and the tail light wire is white and may have black dashes on it. Check the wiring diagram for your bike to be certain and make a copy the diagram and put it in your tool kit - but in case you don't have one handy.....knowing the general colors and what they do helps to decipher what is going on when you see a bundle of wires.
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