taylorsel wrote:Those Blue vampire clips have been on every old GL I've bought. I think they came with the aftermarket bags and ferrings. They are fairly easy to unclip but be sure and tape over the "wound"
I'd be suprised If you have an original headlight under the farring. I wonder what happened to all those headlights that have been removed back in the day. That mess of wiring inside the farring may not be a problem. usually there is a single multi prong plug that connects the farring to the bikes wiring harness. There will be a bunch more of those blue vampire clips near where your original headlight used to be.
I wish I knew where the headlights got off to! I did check and it's not there.
I'm not sure the light will be stock when I'm done, so for now I'll probably just see what I can come across so it has some sort of headlight. I've probably got a while til she's roadworthy.
Roady wrote:Scotch locks and wire nuts. Don't ya just love it!
It looks like she went on a crash diet.
She's half way there! And after seeing how my 83 year old house has been treated few things should surprise me. People love to half-ass things. Or maybe it's they hate to use the whole thing
Either way, I'm amazed the lights all worked. I could imagine there being some nice shorts if I were to ride in the rain.
pidjones wrote:Scotch Lock connectors often damage the wire they are tapping into - better check that, too. I have been covering the "wound" with liquid electrical tape on my project. Several places were cut deep enough that they had to be opened and spliced. I recommend getting a wiring diagram for your year and check against it when things get questionable. And pull ALL connectors apart, at a minimum clean and coat with dielectric grease. On my project, I'm cutting most of them off and replacing with new connectors soldered as well as crimped, as I found several original Honda crimp joints would vary in conductivity as they were flexed.
Liquid electrical tape. Have to look into that one. I do have to fix the wounds, I wasn't sure exactly how I wanted to so I left it alone last night. For now I'm going to clean up the electric best I can, but down the road will most likely replace all connectors and if I'm really feeling masochistic just redo the whole darn thing. I hate leving things undone.
