I installed a light bar which required relocating the front turn signals to the light bar. I wired the light bar per the instructions into the headlight wiring. I took care during the splicing in the turn signals not to cross wires. Now I'm not getting power on the blue wire feeding the left turn signal. Also, now for some reason, the tail light/license plate light stay on even with the key in the off position.
Maybe I'm getting old and short tempered but I'm at the point of ripping out all the wiring stem to stern and installing new. Before I do that I was hoping one of you members may have experienced similar situations in the past and could lend your knowledge.
Thanks in advance for any assistance one can offer.
I'll poke around in the service manual...I suspect you have connected your wiring to a constant hot source by mistake.
Can you tell us exactly where you spliced, and to what? There are no constant feeds into the headlight shell. The parking lights and the tail light are on one circuit, and the turn signals are on another, with them sharing a common ground. The headlight is on another circuit, all together. The two accessory wires are bundled under the fuel tank (they were on mine, anyway) one is a constant ground one is a constant 12V feed. They are protected with a 10A fuse. Unless you are running a relay (I would, and converted mine as soon as I got it), you should not need to access there constant feed circuits.
I just did the light bar thing yesterday, not sure how close the 800 and 1500 are in this case, but my signal lights were also moved to the end of the light bar, and I jsut used the same wires and reconnected them because there was more then enough wires. So I will not say more at present.
I should think that this is going to be pretty standard procedure for all the KAWs...my W-650 is wired the exact same way.
Regarding the power to the left front turn signal: Using a multimeter I located a break in the blue left turn signal line in the headlight bucket. The section of the wire looked pinched/flattened out. Maybe when I reinstalled the light.
Regarding the tail light: Not real sure but its working again. Using the schematic in my Clymer manual, I tracked the wires for any correlation between the tail light and the left front turn signal. It looks they travel on a common chassis ground along with the fuel level sensor and headlight. I checked all the fuses and relays and all checked good. When installing the light bar, the brown wire from the light bar went to the headlight red w/yellow stripe wire and the green wire connected to the black with yellow stripe wire.
What ever the tail light issue was is gone. I purchased the bike with 10,000 miles on it and the wiring looks unmolested but who knows.
CRNRatMan, Troll, Thanks for the assistance. Now, if only it was April.