Bought a bike that was under water. Help.

[alantf]

Originally Posted by rkgz250

The turn singal has 2 pin connector and on harness he told me its 3 pin ...

Seems to me that this is the European connector. All the wiring harnesses are universal. The European bikes have no running lights, so in the turn signal housing there is a single filament bulb that requires only two wires. The third wire in the harness is not needed. On bikes with running lights, three wires are needed for the double filament bulb (a +ve for the running light, a +ve for the turn signal, And a common -ve) Check the bulb, and see if it's a single or double filament. Or if you've not got the bulb, check in the back of the bulb holder. The metal of the bulb holder is usually the -ve, so if there's only one metal plate in the back of the holder, it's a single filament. Two plates means it's a twin filament.

Has the bike got a big plastic, 3D, Marauder logo on the tank? If so it's European. American bikes have a flat Suzuki "S".

[blaine]

Originally Posted by alantf

Has the bike got a big plastic, 3D, Marauder logo on the tank? If so it's European.

......or Canadian. :tongue: :biggrin:

[alantf]

But Canadian bikes don't have the extra parking light in the headlight, but they do have the double filament bulb in the front turn signals. If there is a single filament in there, it's almost certainly European, but how it got to America is anybody's guess.

[rkgz250]

Thanks for replies. Its an american bike.

The harness has three female plugs and the turn signal has 2pin female adaptor (Iam not sure what to call it).

I was wondering how would I connect the turn singal to the plugs. Do I cut wire and solder a male plug to the turnsignal wire so it goes into femlale plug on harness? Or they have some adapter to convert 2 pin on turn singals to 2 male plugs ....

Thanks.

[alantf]

But - is the bulb that's in there double or single filament? :??:

[alantf]

But - is the bulb that's in there double or single filament? :??:

[Water Warrior 2]

Check all of the signals. The front should be 3 wire and rear should be 2 wire.. Are you possibly trying to put a rear signal on the front ??

[alantf]

Good call. I'd not thought of that.

[TooRad4u]

Yeah, my rear turn signals were 2 wires and my fronts were 3 wires. The extra wire keeps the light on with the headlight for the front.

On another note: Does anyone have a trick to pulling the speedo apart to get behind the glass? I still have some mud residue in there that I would like to clean.
Jim

[jonathan180iq]

To get behind the glass, you have to do to a little surgery. If you don't want to risk it, you might just be better off getting a new one and rolling the odometer over to match.