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Kill switch

14K views 14 replies 5 participants last post by  exc200  
#1 ·
Afternoon guys & happy 2021. Hopefully shape up to be better than 2020...

I had an intermittent kill switch on my 2019 300 tpi. Assumed it was the standard issue with switch not working, put the old style switch on and now my lights work again but I still can’t get my kill switch to work.

assume the switches are a straight swap? There’s a single wire that comes from the switch which as far as I know is the kill switch wire? Traced that around headstock and no breaks so I’m a bit confused as to where to go.

Cheers!
 
Discussion starter · #5 ·
You can’t remember what colour the wire was off the top of your head can you?

looks like the single wire from the switch is white/grey and I can trace it all the way through to where itjoins everything
 
Discussion starter · #8 ·
So it seems I have different wiring...my kill switch wire is white and grey and that is all I have, guess the 4T’s are different.

I watched avid about putting an extra kill switch in and they mentioned that if you touch the grey/white wire to frame and earth it the bike should die. Tried that and still not killing it...so should I assume a break in that wire somewhere?
 
Discussion starter · #11 ·
Made some progress tracing the wire back...the white/grey one connects with a bullet connector near the mapping plug, if I undo the plug, start the bike and touch the wire from the loom to the frame it kills the bike, so break is obviously between the connector and switch with the Earth being ok.

so even though the wire looks unbroken there’s obviously something not connecting, whether that’s the actual connector or a break in the wire under therubber sheath I don’t know.Job for tomorrow!

cheers guys 👍🏻
 
Discussion starter · #15 ·
All sorted, rather than mess on with the existing wire I just replaced from the connector near the map connector and ran a new wire up. All working finally.

Just the speedo to sort now and I’ll have run out of lockdown things to do...

cheers for the help 👍🏻