I just got this bike, which was restored by the previous owner.
The headlight switch has three positions; off, low beam and high beam.
I looked at the rear tail lamp assembly first, since the tail light was operating intermittently. There are two wires coming out of the bike leading to the tail lamp assy, yellow and black. According to the K2-K5/early K6 wiring diagram I looked at, it should be green/yellow and brown.
The tail lamp assy has a single 1154 bulb installed, which one of the filaments appeared to be burned out. I replaced it with a known good bulb.
The black wire is broken, not connected to the lamp socket (it's floating free). Not wanting it to short to the frame of the bike or the tail lamp assy, I used some electrical tape to insulate the bare black wire which apparently had pulled out of the socket.
I put the lamp assy back on the bike to see if the remaining (yellow) bulb would function properly. When I started the engine with the headlight switch in the off position the bike runs just fine.
When I switch to the low beam position, the bike wants to immediately stall, although the tail lamp bulb does light dimly until the engine stalls. Keeping the rpm's up high enough to keep the engine from stalling, the headlamp and the tail light do work... however, letting off on the gas means the engine will stall. The headlamp seems fairly bright.
When I run the engine and throw the switch to the high beam position, the headlamp is noticeably dimmer (maybe 25% the intensity of the low beam brightness) and the engine also wants to stall.
Any ideas as to what the problem is? I'm wondering, for starters, if the wiring harness isn't the correct one for my K2 because the colors appear different. The guy used the incorrect (K1) cargo rack, so I don't know what other substitutions he may have made... like the wiring harness.
The headlight switch has three positions; off, low beam and high beam.
I looked at the rear tail lamp assembly first, since the tail light was operating intermittently. There are two wires coming out of the bike leading to the tail lamp assy, yellow and black. According to the K2-K5/early K6 wiring diagram I looked at, it should be green/yellow and brown.
The tail lamp assy has a single 1154 bulb installed, which one of the filaments appeared to be burned out. I replaced it with a known good bulb.
The black wire is broken, not connected to the lamp socket (it's floating free). Not wanting it to short to the frame of the bike or the tail lamp assy, I used some electrical tape to insulate the bare black wire which apparently had pulled out of the socket.
I put the lamp assy back on the bike to see if the remaining (yellow) bulb would function properly. When I started the engine with the headlight switch in the off position the bike runs just fine.
When I switch to the low beam position, the bike wants to immediately stall, although the tail lamp bulb does light dimly until the engine stalls. Keeping the rpm's up high enough to keep the engine from stalling, the headlamp and the tail light do work... however, letting off on the gas means the engine will stall. The headlamp seems fairly bright.
When I run the engine and throw the switch to the high beam position, the headlamp is noticeably dimmer (maybe 25% the intensity of the low beam brightness) and the engine also wants to stall.
Any ideas as to what the problem is? I'm wondering, for starters, if the wiring harness isn't the correct one for my K2 because the colors appear different. The guy used the incorrect (K1) cargo rack, so I don't know what other substitutions he may have made... like the wiring harness.
