cb350f mystery wires in headlight bucket

[rupaulpierce]

Took a look inside the headlight bucket to rewire my turn signals. There are three unconnected female ends, a brown wire, a green ground wire, and a black wire leading to a four way female connector with nothing connected to it. They're all coming from the main harness, not the controls. Anyone know what these are? Everything seems to be working.

 

[1fasgsxr]

Sonreir will know.

 

[carnivorous chicken]

Plug them all together and see what happens!


Have you looked at a diagram? Brown should be your tail light. I believe (but not 100% on this) that not only should the tail light come on when you turn on your headlight, but you should have a third key switch position above run that is for parking, and your tail light only should come in that position. That's my guess at least. As for the ground, I believe that the 350F had two wires at the turn signal, ground and power, but some people ground them directly to frame thus eliminating the need for a ground in the bucket. Again, just a guess. As for the black, dunno.

When you say everything works, does that include gauge lights?

 

[rupaulpierce]

Plug them all together and see what happens!


Have you looked at a diagram? Brown should be your tail light. I believe (but not 100% on this) that not only should the tail light come on when you turn on your headlight, but you should have a third key switch position above run that is for parking, and your tail light only should come in that position. That's my guess at least. As for the ground, I believe that the 350F had two wires at the turn signal, ground and power, but some people ground them directly to frame thus eliminating the need for a ground in the bucket. Again, just a guess. As for the black, dunno.

When you say everything works, does that include gauge lights?

I looked at the diagram, i'm bad at reading them don't see the four way connector and my bike seems different... for example in the diagram the hot wires for the T/S are orange... mine are black and there is no evidence of tampering. The T/S ground through the mounting nut on the inside of the bucket. The taillight lights up in the third key position as is.

 

[rupaulpierce]

paging sonreir.. is he like candyman? sonreir sonreir sonreir

 

[carnivorous chicken]

I'll leave it up to sonreir for a final word but your turn signal wires should definitely be orange (left) and light blue (right). Someone's done some tapering/switching around, but if it all works run it.

 

[markreimerWPG]

When I opened my 350f I also had a few stragglers. I'll see if I can tell which colonies they were from the photos I have. When I re wired the whole bike I had a couple extra ends again. Bike has been running 100% for the last few months.


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[lostboy]

I don't remember what the brown is but the black is a switched ignition. My cb550s both have these extra deadend wires as well.


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[vandito.cb]

for example in the diagram the hot wires for the T/S are orange... mine are black

brown = tail light
green = ground
black = switched ignition power

the PO may have done some rearranging for whatever reason. do you have any pictures of it?

 

[Sonreir]

brown = tail light
green = ground
black = switched ignition power

the PO may have done some rearranging for whatever reason. do you have any pictures of it?

+1

 

[rupaulpierce]

I'll take some photos. Not sure why the ignition would be rewired, it has the stock internally wired bars.