Wiring Turn Signals….Help!

Greetings all

you may know me from asking a lot of them questions on these forms but I keep running into the same two or three issues and I’m not getting any help from the mechanic I know my knowledge is limited about bikes and that’s why I bought this Frankenstein bike to learn.

I have attached a few photos below I’m trying to put incandescent cheap is shit turn signals on my bike for the interim so I can learn the process then evaluate what long-term high-quality parts I want to put on this thing down the road. Another motivator is I’ve put a lot of money into this small investment and I’m a little bit tapped so I’m trying to learn how to do it and what to replace and want to test but there just aren’t a lot of electric wiring for dummies posts out there that seem to deal with what I need to deal with.

I’m trying to get my non-LED turn signals wired in and I feel like I have a solid hold on the information at this point but whenever I wire these things in to the proper locations per a bunch of different posts and conversations nothing happens.

When I attach the leads to the battery the lights light up and everything seems fine.

I’ve now got my headlight assembly open and sprawled out and I’m examining all the connections there and I found this burned out piece.



The green piece in the photo below. I don’t know the name of it, is it a capacitor, really, I don’t know? So I don’t know if this is the culprit but I’ve just missed because it was in this nest of wires.

Is there someplace that has some sort of JPEG that lays out what all these things are and what systems they control?

I have no idea what is keeping these lights from functioning.

please help?

 

Now that I’ve been unplugging, cleaning, and testing now when I put the key in and turn it, the bike has no power. I assume I popped a fuse or shorted something, can anyone please tell me how I can trace these systems to find the problem???

 

There are wiring diagrams in the Haynes manual that are useful for decoding all that stuff.

 

thank you for replying. I don’t know what that is. Googling now.

 

This is the most common version for 650s and 750s

 

Work for 550?

 

There should be a 550 version

 

Look for Haynes or Clymer. They are equivalent I think.