on the front left and front right turn signals on a 98 f3 im looking to see if anyone knows off hand which wires are which.

there are 3 wire, ground, power, and running light.

does anyone which are which? it would really help me out.

Thanks!

 

I believe that the green is always ground (same color on each side) Just hook up a test light and go to town. You'll find out a lot easier that way and you'll know first hand.

 

get the F3manual rfom stephygee's site, it has the wiring diagram for the bike in there. I know off the top of my head, one side is blue with different color stripes, and the other side is orange with different color stripes.

 

test all the wires..green goes to solid black..then i think the white striped one is the running light then the other is the blinker...its the brighter filament in the bulb that is blinkers..whichever works out that way...just mess with it til it works...lol

 

i ask b/c i am installing some led turn signals for the front, and they have 2 wires, 1 black, one yellow. Could I hook them up to use the running lights as well? Id check myself, but I wont get them for a few days.

 

Yes, that should work. I did that to my F4i, but I installed some resistors before the junction to prevent any back feed. Just hold it all together when it's time and it should work, if it doesn't...back to the drawing board.

 

are the resistors required for anything else other than slowing down the rate of blinking? at any time would having to little or to much draw from the led's on the power system cause the lights / flasher relay not to function?

and what do you mean by back feed?

 

Damnit! Okay...replace my word "resistor" with "diode"


I didn't put them in to slow the rate, I wanted to make sure that there wouldn't be any backfeed. By that I mean...I didn't want to risk having one power feed (like the running light circut) attempting to send power thru the other feed (turn signal circut). By adding a the"Diode" before the connection of the power wires, power couldn't feed backward because the"Diode" only allows power ot go in one direction.

I doubt that it would ever happen, but since the two power wires are practically tied together, I didn't want to risk an electronic meltdown.

 

this should get it done for ya.. can't remember who made this little drawing but thanks

 

thanks, im going to to radio shack to pick them up! Ill hopefully install them this weekend, ill let u guys know how they went.