It won’t start now. It’s turning over though which wasn’t happening before I patched the wires. I’m including a pic of what’s left to patch up if anyone has suggestions.
Tire burned wire
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Ruggedandovercooked
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Tire burned wire
My headlight fell off my 1100 on the highway and it brought the wiring harness with it into the front tire. I’ve patched most of it back together but I think I’m still missing something.
It won’t start now. It’s turning over though which wasn’t happening before I patched the wires. I’m including a pic of what’s left to patch up if anyone has suggestions.
It won’t start now. It’s turning over though which wasn’t happening before I patched the wires. I’m including a pic of what’s left to patch up if anyone has suggestions.
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Ruggedandovercooked
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Re: Tire burned wire
I connected all the green wires and the brown wire together. It started right up and I rode around the block. Now it won’t start. It blew the turn signal fuse. I replaced it and still no start
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Rambozo
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Re: Tire burned wire
Time to pull out the wiring diagram.
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the_big_h
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Re: Tire burned wire
On all the Honda's I've worked on, green is ground. So all of the greens can be connected together.
Brown is tail lights (running lights, parking lights, whatever you want to call them). Definitely should not be connected to green. My 1200 wiring diagram shows the brown wire up front not connected to anything, I'd guess the 1100 is the same. Connecting brown to green would be expected to blow the tail light fuse.
It's not clear on how any of this can be related to not cranking or not starting. But now that it cranks, the first thing I'd check would be the kill switch - you wouldn't be the first to accidentally hit the kill switch while working on something unrelated
Brown is tail lights (running lights, parking lights, whatever you want to call them). Definitely should not be connected to green. My 1200 wiring diagram shows the brown wire up front not connected to anything, I'd guess the 1100 is the same. Connecting brown to green would be expected to blow the tail light fuse.
It's not clear on how any of this can be related to not cranking or not starting. But now that it cranks, the first thing I'd check would be the kill switch - you wouldn't be the first to accidentally hit the kill switch while working on something unrelated
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Ruggedandovercooked
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Re: Tire burned wire
the_big_h wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 11:26 am On all the Honda's I've worked on, green is ground. So all of the greens can be connected together.
Brown is tail lights (running lights, parking lights, whatever you want to call them). Definitely should not be connected to green. My 1200 wiring diagram shows the brown wire up front not connected to anything, I'd guess the 1100 is the same. Connecting brown to green would be expected to blow the tail light fuse.
It's not clear on how any of this can be related to not cranking or not starting. But now that it cranks, the first thing I'd check would be the kill switch - you wouldn't be the first to accidentally hit the kill switch while working on something unrelated
I’m going to take the kill switch apart. I’m not getting spark at all. Idk