I am finally overhauling my bike. 24k miles of northeast ohio country is a lot.

I have my harness completely off my bike. I found out that there had definitely been some shoddy work done on my rear light section. The blinkers are definitely not stock, but I think the brakelight still is. I basically just snipped it all off at the longest point I could from the harness. There was electrical tape, duct tape, scotch tape, packing tape, saran wrap- you name it, holding these wires together. Not soldered, mostly just twisted together. There were about 4 extra wires with no homes from the blinkers, brake lights, and harness. Lots of sketchiness. I'll have to check the diagram and see what I am dealing with.

Basically, I would like to know what sort of chemicals I should and shouldn't use, and if it is wise to just go ahead and strip the whole harness of the tape/wrap? It is in terrible condition and it would make me piddle to see it looking new again. Also, if anyone has there bike apart, and could snap a shot of a completely stock rear light wiring section, I would send you some cookies. I am still fairly new to reading diagrams, it helps to see it in person, sorta.

Thanks

 

If the wires are brittle and need a little more flex you can use a ddtai
Spray like armor all and just blast the crud out of them to get the life back. Ive done this on car wiring harness with great results.

 

Alright, the harness took backseat to the rest of my dis assembly. I have my frame stripped down to my forks, and swingarm. Gonna have a ton of sanding and degreasing to do. I tried some of that spray and it worked great on the brittle areas of the wires, btw. Especially in a non heated garage- I sorta needed it.

About the wire harness. I am sort of confused. The rear turn signals show only two wires per side in the wiring diagram, but I have 3? I am guessing thats why I had loose wires before I took it all apart.

And also, can I wire my blinkers into a stock tailight, or do you need a special relay for that?

 

It is possible that the original owner tried to install rear running lights. That might be why there are 3 wires. Hondas only have running lights in the front. If you are going to retape the harness, I would recommend retaping a portion at a time. That way all the routing & split offs can remain in the same location. If you remove all the tape at once & then go about retaping it might be hard to get the splits in the correct place.

As for the the tail light. You basically wan to integrate the turn signals & brake/running lights into the rear light? Uhaul sells a trailer wiring harness for about $15 bucks.