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While in the progress of restoration I reached the light bucket which clearly needs to be replaced. Upon removal of the lens there was this mess! I have two questions regarding the mess in the below. 1.) Is this really the stock way Honda organized wires? And 2.) Is there if any way to organize these?
 

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Yeah. I took my bucket apart yesterday and found the same thing. My facial expression was a mix of sad, confused, and oddly impressed. The inside of my bucket resembles some sort of dusty and angry spaghetti dinner. But I like a challenge...
 
Out of the factory they were neater, but years of fiddling and no way to duplicate the out of the factory look makes all of them like that.
 
Totally caught me off guard last week as well... Makes sense having everything in there though, kind of. Definetly shows how nothing is "exact". I'm sure every harness was a little different, variable lengths, etc. Sucky but I'm sure you could organize it a bit.
 
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That is actually much "neater" than most I have seen.
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Thats exactly what I was thinking. Just wait till he gets through the rest of the harness. I think I actually made a blog post about Hondas wiring. And the miracle they ever got the first one to run off the assembly line. LOL
 
Heres my blog post about Hondas wiring...back a couple months ago.

http://www.hondabrat.com/2013/03/wiring.html
 
Yeah, yours actually looks pretty good. some are all hacked up with twisted together wires, electrical tape, butt connectors and scotch locks... I HATE scotch locks! Here is what I found on my first rebuild
 

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Thats how they are for sure. I just swapped out a CL450 bucket, I do have the schematic and can follow one, but i found it easier to number each disconnect on both sides of the connector. Then pull it off, do the work, stuff them back in, connect the numbers.
Fortunately for me, my work has number strips for wiring. I am sure yo can print some up on label paper.
when U had a connection with four wires, they would all get the same number. I really cant count too high.
 
Lol thanks for all the replies. This brings me to another question I'm planning on putting clubmans on my CL but a bunch of wires are going through the handle bars into the controls. What's the best way to take these wires out of the handle bars?
 
Pulling them out of the stock bars isn't too bad, the bars have slots and nice gentle bends. Experiance says you may want to think long and hard about running them back through the clubmans, IF they are open all the way through the bends are tight some have welded 90 angles and it's a royal bitch to pull the wires. Better to run them outside, you may have to notch the controls but it's MUCH easier.
 
One trick I use to run wires through bars is to cut a corner off a plastic grocery bag and tie on a piece of nylon sting (effectively making a small parachute). Stuff it into one end of the bars and attach a shop vac to the other side. The suction pulls the bag and string through pretty easy, and then using a thin wire with a hook you can pull the string through the holes you have drilled at the control locations. Then tie/tape your wires to the pull string, and some lube and pull the wires where you want them. Clubmans with shape bends do require more finessing but can be done relatively easy.
 
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