New Bars, Push Start Doesnt Work

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So the title pretty much sums everything up. So I just changed my handle bars and new my bike won't start nor do my headlights work weird part is my turn signals are working. I checked my connections using a multimeter and found I got a signal on this metal bracket (in the picture its the piece of metal right below the yellow wire) on the inside of the turn signal/head light assembly. Does it have to be grounded to my bars?

might seem like another dumb question but would I need to sand the the paint in all 4 areas in order to get my connection grounded?

Ok well I decided to sand down the paint on the far right and left circles in the picture above, turn the key and press the push start and still nothing happens. No headlights, no tach lights nor does the start button work.

I decided to try a kick start and the headlights and tach lights start to work but the push start still isnt working.

Anyone have any idea of why the push start isn't working still. Ill be checking for pinched wires but curious if anyone has an idea of the best place to start. Whether it be working my way from the battery to the assembly or vice versa. The battery is also reading a normal charge.

 

[AlphaDogChoppers]

Go into the headlight bucket and find the connectors that come from your handlebar controls. That black wire that is attached to the control shell is a ground wire. make sure it is grounded. A ground through the handlebars is not very reliable.

 

[mark13018]

I had a similar problem on a cb200 I had and it was the button (yellow/red) wire shorting out on the handle bars. Use some electrical tape or heat shrink tubing to prevent the button/solenoid wire from shorting against the bars. If that's your problem.

 

[mark13018]

Or the wire could be grounding out elsewhere also making the circuit incomplete, therefore not allowing the button to work... Its yellow with a red stripe, if its all stock wiring. If not you just need to know the complete starter circuit or where that stock wire normally travels.

 

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ok Ill check that ground when I get home from work. I started to look over it yesterday night and noticed a black wire wasnt connected to anything it was just wrapped in electrical tape. Assuming the black wire in the first picture is a ground?

 

[AlphaDogChoppers]

I was working on an old Virago earlier this week, and it had a black ground wire in the handlebar control just like yours does, and it wasn't connected to anything inside the headlight bucket. I wasn't having a problem with ground, but at least that wire there gave me an easy way to establish a good ground if I needed it. I think poor ground is likely your culprit.

 

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Ok sounds like Ill be trying that hopefully this works.