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yamaha42


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Hello Terrence R, thanks for the question. My key switch does work as it should. However, since I have the tusk on/off switch mounted, I can turn on the entire kit minus the headlight (because it's spliced into the stock headlight wires) because it has separate leads going to the battery. My headlight will not work unless the key is "on", the stock headlight switch is "on", and the tusk kit switch is either set to high or low beam. Did your bike have any problems with the key switch prior to installing the tusk kit? It sounds to me as if you may want to re-work your connections...perhaps a TTR electrical guru can chime in for me, as I have little knowledge with circuits. How do you turn off the power to the bike if the key won't?

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The on/off switch was what was shutting the power off and on. I did some splicing between the ttr harness and the tusk harness. Between the two, I got it figured out today. The key will now work as it should. I also have it wired now so I don't need the tusk on/off switch and I don't need the original ttr light switch. The original ttr on/off/electric start switch also all works as it should. This way, I won't have extra light switches and on/off switches mounted to my bars.biggrin



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Sounds like you did a good job! Personally I like all my switches, it's almost as if I'm doing pre-flight checks :)

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Yamaha42- Just in case you didn't know... You seem to be missing the M6 bolt from the side of the airbox. See picture below.

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yamaha42


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Yeah I know, somehow I managed to break that bolt :(

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Yamaha42, thanx. I have a lot of cutting and splicing done, but I'm pretty happy with the turn out so far. Just got my headlight wired up. I'm just curious though, the black wire on the tusk control switch, did u connect both of the grey ttr wires to it? I did and it seems to be working as it should. I just don't want to run into any problem down the road. Thanx.

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I used THIS video (go to the diagram at 3:18) to help me splice my headlight wires. It helped me a bunch!



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yamaha42 wrote:

I used THIS video (go to the diagram at 3:18) to help me splice my headlight wires. It helped me a bunch!

 

I too used that video and it helped me tremendously. But, there are 2 positives ( grey wires) on the ttr's harness. On the video, they use a wrf which only has one positive. I think it'll be fine though cause these 2 grey wires are sliced together right from factory yamaha. Seems weird to me though. Thanx.



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i like what you did with the front blinkers. i made brkts and mounted them to the fork clamps. I have to rework them tho they hit the tank when turned full lock.


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Hi again,

So I am having problems with my license plate light and blinkers. So when I start the bike up, everything works fine. However when I start driving the blinkers/brake light start flickering when i use them, then eventually they don't turn on at all. So when I pull over and let the bike sit for a second the lights work again!

The main headlight and main tail light are not effected by this and they stay on all the time. I'm using Tusk brand dual sport kit. Any ideas on what is causing this problem? I looked at most of the connections and they were connected. I am just so confused why it doesn't work when I am moving?

Any suggestions?

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It does sound like a loose connection somewhere, my rear light kept stop working on an intermediate level. Stripped it down and it had been routed wrong, once I sorted this it has worked well.

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The symptoms you describe are indicative of a bad earth - probably in the headlight area. I have only ever seen this on trailer board lights and it has always been cured by re-doing the earth connections.

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I had the same problem after installing my Tusk DS kit. It was fine for the first couple months, then I noticed the flickering here and there of particular functions. I originally just twisted all the Tusk wiring together and shrunk wrapped them. After the flickering, I tore it all apart, soldered each connection, re-shrunk wrapped, and I haven't had a problem since.

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Can someone please help me hook my tusk enduro kit light switch

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so you spliced the two grey wires together from the plug and connected them to the the black power cable to the switch.



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