After a long day of thinking my bike was dead due to battery issue and then reading on the forums how an over tightened screw can pinch the cable causing a grounding issue completely shutting down the bikes electrical system,  and having done that exact thing, and after many blown fuses (very helpful if you get the ones that light up if that fuse blows) I realized how to get my bike going and I thought all was good...  Wrong.   I over tightened my front right screw that holds the light in place which caused this issue and as I said earlier,  I fixed that and replaced the fuse and now my bike is running fine.   HOWEVER,  I noticed that my entire right side (front and back) are now not working,  including on the indicator panel.   I'm guessing I'm going to have to remove the whole light with cable and just cut and splice in new wires.   Is this correct?   Will this solve the whole issue or will I also have to do some other things to fix this?   As far as I'm aware the only fuses are the two attached just beneath the seat on the frame.   Is the any others for the front that I'm not aware of?   PLEASE HELP!!

Also I'm thinking of doing a conversion of my turn signals to the LED strips that do the full run/brake/turn functions.   Has anyone ride done this and if so,  what are your thoughts.   Even if I don't do that I'm so finished with the garbage stock turn signals.   I've broken 3 and that's from minimal contact.   They're cheap plastic garbage and certainly not worth the $70-$90 prices I see on OEM websites.   I did just find an exact replica that K&S makes for about $45, but still I could get a set of four equally crappy,  if not better lights off so many different sites.   Today I found some spacers at the local hardware store that fit in the rear mounting hole exactly and I was able to thread them to fit any light that bolts to size M8.  Even if I go with the LED option I could use this and fit an acorn nut large enough to cover the hole making the entire chrome side bracket just be bare and have a nice sleek looking fender which I think is the best option.   My only problem then would be what/how to cover the hole that would be left on the top rear of the fender from removing the brake light.   'Black Beauty'  did a amazing job with this and in many ways my bike will soon look very similar to that as I'm clearing everything in the middle of the chassis out,  though I'm not sure if I'm going to make a piece of sheet metal to follow the frame from the battery mount up to the seat,  though I'm considering it.   Getting off point.   I  believe he actually welded in a piece of metal to fill the gap then sanded it down and then had it repainted.   More money than I can afford to just fill that little gap so looking for ideas.   I know they have that metal compound at like Autozone you can get that fills in gaps,  but once again I'd have to sand it down and then fix the paint that got sanded in the process...  

So back to main point,  I need help in fixing my lighting issue and I'm looking at the Flexible Array LED light strips on chromeglow.com to possibly replace all my turn signals and brake lights.  Probably should have made more than one thread on this as I'm covering multiple issues and main concern is fixing my lighting!   Lol please help if you can.

http://www.chromeglow.com/

Well after many hours of going through the cables I finally found this issue and it was exactly what I thought it would be but fixing it took longer than predicted.   Front right turn signal wire was pinched  and I basically cut everything and rewired. It took so long because I don't yet have a soldering tool but will remedy that tomorrow.   Luckily I had some electrical tape and a heat gun and that worked in the end. Didn't realize the difference in difficulty between fixing the rear lights compared to the front,  so hopefully won't have to do anything up there until I get a new set of lights to replace them all.   Out of curiosity,  why does the front have a ground wire but the rear doesn't?

uigiroux wrote on 03/21/14 at 01:17:10:


The front and rear both have ground wires.

The rear light only has two wires....one ground and one positive.....as the bulb has a single filament and only functions as a turn signal.

The front light has 3 wires.....one ground, one running light and one turn signal....the bulb has two filaments. This light functions as a running light whenever the key is on, and a turn signal.