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I also had known about electrical problems with the bike. It only has 3 fuses (head light, tail light, and main) and it would spontaniously blow the MAIN fuse on occasion. Original equiptment was the glass tube fuses, held in a plastic fuse box, but the fuse box had got melted before I got the bike, and someone had put spade connecters on the wire ends and connected 3 blade fuses:
The blades nearly touch, and the only insulation between was a piece of electrical tape. Also, the entire main harness had many splices and a bunch of connectors in poor condition, so I removed the harness from the bike, unwrapped it, and pinned it down to a table.
There are annotations at every connecter, branch point, and junction (where 2 or more wires are soldered together inside the harness). I have 7 pages of notes detailing color, what i plugs into, where the other end connects, etc etc.
Also when I got the bike, the handlebars had been replaced. I assume that they got bent in The Crash, and when replacements were obtained from a salvage yard, the worker simply clipped the wires as close to the bars as he could.
Whoever put the bars on the bike did NOT run the wires through the handlebars, but instead they were dangling in the wind and weather. Looked like hell, so I pulled the cut wires out of the bars, disassembled each control case, soldered new wire to each connection, wrapped them, and ran them through the handlebars.
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