Stribo
New Member
Ok i have been doing this old cb360 up. When i purchased the old girl she was disassembled. So i have been hooking up the old wiring harness. I have ditched the original headlight bracket and have some nice after market crome ears. Also have an after market single speedo.The originals where toast. I had everything working fine all lights indicators and nice spark at the point etc. So i started her up and had a spin around the backyard. It was extremely gutless.Couldn't pull the skin of a custard. Now that could be bad timing or carby issue as i haven't really looked into those bits. Now all of a sudden i'm blowing the main fuse when i turn the headlight on . Seems like a short somewhere which i've been looking for all freekin day.grrrrrr...
Ok questions .
There is a green wire about in line with the right coil with a eye terminal on it that hang out of the main harness. Sould this go to ground? Position looks like it should go on the rear mounting bolt of the coil. With it not grounded all the indicator lights have a dull glow and the headlight does not come on. With it grounded the headlight and indicators function untill the fine pieces of steel wool that i am using for a main fuse burns up.
Also when its not grounded it lights up the test light.But i can't find where its getting power/short...
Also when the run switch is in the start position the main fuse gets hot but doesn't blow and there is power to the coils and points.
I also can't find any other wires getting warm.
On the wiring diagram in the manual i see no ground on any solid green wires
Yet on this cb350 diagram it does...
Also inside the headlight bucket on the mounting bolt there are wires coming from each nut. They make no difference connected or not i guess because the front indicator stalks are earthing through the ears/forks.
I have disconected all lights and reconected one by one to no avail even when they are all disconected that green wire powers up.
Would a recifier or voltage regulator give these symptoms? I had a spare VR and tried that but no difference.
Sooo any electro gurus have any thoughts on this. This is driving me nuts.. :'(
Ok questions .
There is a green wire about in line with the right coil with a eye terminal on it that hang out of the main harness. Sould this go to ground? Position looks like it should go on the rear mounting bolt of the coil. With it not grounded all the indicator lights have a dull glow and the headlight does not come on. With it grounded the headlight and indicators function untill the fine pieces of steel wool that i am using for a main fuse burns up.
Also when its not grounded it lights up the test light.But i can't find where its getting power/short...
Also when the run switch is in the start position the main fuse gets hot but doesn't blow and there is power to the coils and points.
I also can't find any other wires getting warm.
On the wiring diagram in the manual i see no ground on any solid green wires
Yet on this cb350 diagram it does...
Also inside the headlight bucket on the mounting bolt there are wires coming from each nut. They make no difference connected or not i guess because the front indicator stalks are earthing through the ears/forks.
I have disconected all lights and reconected one by one to no avail even when they are all disconected that green wire powers up.
Would a recifier or voltage regulator give these symptoms? I had a spare VR and tried that but no difference.
Sooo any electro gurus have any thoughts on this. This is driving me nuts.. :'(