Unfortunately while i was painting my bike i had to leave it outside of my friends house for a few weeks. I finally have it back together and running then it just dies on me. Checked the fuses all was good then i knew it had to be the r/r.

turns out its not the r/r its one of the harness wires that got badly corroded and now separated from the harness.

I cant find any harnesses and alot of the r/r's on ebay dont come with a harness attatchment.

Any ideas? I dont know of any great way to put make sure the wires are all solidly connected into the harness again so i figured a new one is in order,

 

Is the wire bad at the plug? or is it just mid harness somewhere?

If its mid harness, it should just be a simple matter of removing that wire and installing a new one.

If its at the plug-in, you have a few options. The cheapest would be to bypass that wire. You can cut the wire from the harness, and then from the R/R and then plug them into eachother directly with a set of terminals.

Or, you can buy a universal pin connector and rewire your harness that is on your bike, and the harness that comes from the R/R.

Either way will be much easier tha replacing the entire harness. Plus, if you buy a used harness, you may be buying one that is in the same condition as your current one.

 

one of the wires got corroded and actually came out of the harness we jammed it in there with a screw and the bike ran fine again for a few minutes before dieing