please help

well i started a project (my first project 1985 xj700 maxim) a while ago and i took apart the bike to paint the frame i was way to excited to get it finished and was stupid enough to not label the wires like i did the first time while i was building it!!

i ended up not touching the bike for a short while and because of that screw up i forgot how to put the wires back.

i would really appreciate if i can get pictures as to which wire goes where
i need pic of what ever parts of your bike or anything you can help me with i dont need the headlight and everything around that just really everything from under the tank all the way to the back

thank you for your help i hope i can get finished the wiring so i can continue with the bike already

 

What bike & year is it? IIRC the Haynes 650/750 and 900 manuals have wire routing pictures in, if you let me know which one I can try to take some photos of those if you haven't got a manual?

They're worthwhile things to have though so would be worth finding yourself a manual when you can too, they've helped me a lot

 

oh sorry its a 1985 xj700 maxim

i found some wiring diagram online but it was no help cause i didnt understand it all to well.

im just stuck with some wires as to which goes where

 

You told us what it is in the very first sentence of your original post!

You can actually figure out a lot of the wires simply because many of the clips are shape-specific, or the wires that go in are the same color as the wires that go out, as well as many of them only come out of the harness fairly near wherever they get plugged in.

Dave F

 

It's an edit, wasn't there when I asked honest! :lol:

 

People fail to post their year, make, & model in their signature.......usually new members make that mistake......

 

sorry guys from causing some confusion about the bike!!!

and yes i know that most of the wires just match by the clips, but there were a few wire thats were the same color for example i have a few black wires and im not sure where they go!
like the rear brakes wiring has 2 black wires

so please just if i can get some pics of the lower half of the bike that would be great

 

if you looked at mine, yours would never go again.
black wires at the back of these are most likely grounds for the turn signals and brake/tail light

 

Yeah, at the back you should have three (maybe four, thinking about it) black wires; One for each turn signal, one for the tail/brake light, and one for the license plate light. the turnsignal power leads....IIRC......should bene is green the other is brown. the tail/brakelight ass'y, and the plate light have they're own harness that goes under the fender for a bit, then through a grommet, under the seat to the opposite side of the bike, and the bullet connectors all fit into a 'bundle' on the right-hand side of the bike wedged between the frame and the inner fender, just back from the battery box a little distance.

Hope that helps............ If the colors are wrong, I apologize----but, all the wires go to the same area, and it still just a matter of matching them up.

dave

 

These pics are from an xj550 seca, dunno if they'll help
http://exjayarrjey.tumblr.com/post/6744 ... ing-pics-1
http://exjayarrjey.tumblr.com/post/6744 ... ing-pics-2

With your brake switch example, it might not matter which wire goes to which side of the switch, cos the switch will just break or make the circuit.
This unlikely to be true for the more important components, but these will usually have orientation-specific clips.

Multimeters usually have a continuity test on them. This could help.

Goodluck mate

 

all solid black wires are grounds. need I say more?

CN