Hi Ficke: Here is what I use for general electrical check up Short Tester.jpg It's very easy to use, insert the fake fuse (which I made of spade terminals and copper rod) and clip the aligators to terminals, if there is a short the lamp will glow (instead of blowing a fuse), from there start trackin...

It is however, the only place that I have ever seen, selling or advertising, JIS. I now have four sets of JIS screwdrivers and or bits. FYI, recently I received this e-mail from Randakks advertizing US made JIS screwdrivers. https://www.randakks.com/catalog/product/view/id/13514/s/jis-screwdrivers-...

As I've had read in many sites, they state that all japanese bikes have JIS screws. Those are for threaded holes.
Also that Phillips screws were designed to work on sheet metal, where the driver must slip before the screw may overpull and strip the threads.
Those Vessel tools are fantastic!

I'm very sorry about that; I admire most of his posts; prayers for him and his family. RIP.

+ 1 on Ct1500 comment. If it were me, I'll apply some heat to the casing, and using a visegrip (being much secured) try to loosen it; first a little wiggle back and forth.
By being a machinist most of my life I may say that trying to drill it free hand is an impossible mission.

Congrats on the good job that you've done, and nice write up too.
Very interesting and good to keep in mind, just in case ...

Welcome to this nice forum Joel: At your question, it's bettrer to drive for about 1/2 hour to get the oil wamr so it flow better when the drain plug is removed, let it drain and refill with recomended fluid. Per Clymer manual, it's recomended to replace oil every 22.500 Mi./36.000 Km. Find attached...

Back to mishap 1 === Although I didn't know it until I got home about 2 hours later, when I took my helmet off a hearing aid went with it. At least that was the logical time and place for it to have left. We went back to Jack's and searched and searched - these things are LITTLE. Went back with fla...

Conngrats on your brillant hard work, for sure you're leaving a trace!!

It depends how far you stripped it out; by your comment, if no head nor brake light I would say to check first at the ignition key switch, they're powered from the main 30 amp fuse, loose contact there could be the problem.
I'm including a circuit diagram for you.

Ii've gad my rigtht hip replaced May/2017, recovery took about a month and get back on ridding after 3 month, it was winter anyway; and I'm still riding my 1500 with only 76 springs on my account.

For the balancers you may hook up them as seen in attached pic, left right in place of the #6 tube, (leave the tube alone) and right side by removing the 5mm bolt circled red. As for the tach I got the signal from the minus side of one ignition coil, it's easy to get at them when you're at carbs, (I...

That´s the problem whenever they made mods to wiring. By looking at the circuit I can see that turn signals and brake are energized by same lines protected with a 15 Amp fuse, not a 5 Amp. and while in park there shoudn't be power to rear brake light, so I suspect that you have either some crossed w...

The red line in a GL1000 is around 7.5K, so with such a low RPM probably the 1000 trany wont do much good.
Here are the specs of Gl1000.

Hi Alexandru: Welcome to the forum, remember that fuel pump only runs for few seconds when the main key is turn to On position; will have power after motor starts. Attached is full electrical diagram posted by fellow Erdeniz. Gl1500 Ignition.PNG I hope this helps, should you need more diagrams or el...

Thank you Scott for the info; I also answered this post on the 20th but in different thread (mi bad) "1994 Honda Pacific Coast" instead of the actual one.
In the end, we were able to retrieve the HID ballast and replace the lamp with a regular one, he's happy finally
Mario.

You're right, the display would look cool in that place; but also you can always take a coin .....
.and flip it

Thank you Scott for the good info. He also has a '99 GL1500 SE, so knows something about removing parts. He probably needs to remove the front upper tupperware to find the HID ballast and remove it to go back to OEM. I just found a YouTube video showing exactly that operation, I believe that will su...

Hello gurus!! I calling in behalf of a friend of mine who doesn't manage English. He asked me for help in replacing the headlight bulb that has a non working HID, and plans to going back to OEM. The main problem is lack of manual and not knowing where to start of how do you remove the tupperware? Is...

I thought about that, too, have to measure the lines from ECU when not grounded by the switch. My guess is the ECU has pull-up resistors to either 5 volts or 12, measure that then choose the ratio of the two resistors lighting the LED so the voltage sourced by the LED circuit thru the diodes is sma...

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year 2019 to all.

Nice pictures, at least now I know what a snowblower looks like, for I've not seen one in my life; I'm too far from snow.

Hi Baron... I can supply you with a copy of part off the Clymer manual for the GL1000 ( for this time). The system doesn't allow me to post the entire manual; I'll see how to overcame this issue. I hope this can help to keep your bike in top shape. Should you need any more info, just ask for. Mario ...

Hi Dave: Ok, As promised time ago here we go…with a pict of the roofed gallery where the birds are having their chicks. PB11.JPG I’ve had set up my camera on a tripod and took several 20 minutes videos, later I edited and trimmed them to about 1,5 minutes, also saved some pictures from it. Here is r...

It shows up like this: Unavailable.PNG You may have set the privacy settings on it to "friends only" which means the rest of us can't see it. Hi Scott, and to all that couldn't open the previous link. I posted a new set of videos (all public this time) for you to see, please follow this link: https...