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Can anyone tell me what this wire is??
As per the title im currently trying to rewire a 1996 xt600e that was previously stolen recovered and had no wiring loom when i bought it and have managed to make up one good loom from 2 old looms i sourced on ebay and now have pretty much everything connected up (I think!) except one wire! Its a black wire with a male bullet connector that runs from the loom along side the connector that goes to the starter relay and it seems to have nowhere to connect to??.
I have attached a pic with the wire circled in red.
Any help with this would be grately appreciated as ive spent the best part of a week trying to sort this out and am now stuck!!
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PM me your Email address and ill email you PDFs of the microfiches and the manuals.
I cant really see much from your photo. Its small and low res.
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yeah sorry about the photo, it was taken on my phone as my wife had the camera in the car!
Ive sent you a PM with my email address. The loom im using is from a 2000 4PT model, (the bike is a '96 4PT which still used the 3TB engine) I have electrical diagrams for a 1995 3TB and i think the only difference between the two is the starter relay? but they dont appear to show a lone black wire (its actually black with silver 'flashes' on it?) anywhere??
Ive managed to open up the other old loom I was canibalising and found out that the wire is actually the earth wire that connects to the rear of the frame with a ring connector just next to the regulator/rectifier although I still have no idea where the end with the bullet connector is supposed to connect to?
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On the 1994 600 there is a black wire where you say, and it goes to the sidestand switch. Just a thought.
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sidestand switch was my first thought but that is already connected so not that?! with it being connected to the frame at the other end it must be an eart for something but cant see what, will try to take a better picture in the morning and post it up to see if anyone recognises it
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Thanks for the suggestions and help guys but ive now found out what the wire is!
After looking over the circuit diagrams again last night I noticed the solitary black wire that I must have missed when checking the diagram earlier  (amazing what a couple of glasseds of wine can do!)
It appears that the wire is a secondary earth that goes directly to the battery and also has the front indicator earths spliced into it about halfway along the loom so just need to make up a connection to the battery and fix the snapped wire from the neutral switch that I also found last night and hopefully the XT thats been sitting in bits in my garage for almost a year might actually be running this weekend
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