Cleaning Up The Bars

[icecold_shee]

Heres a walk through on cleaning up the bars, to get rid some extra wires, the one on the throttle housing, the clutch, and the bulky headlight switch. Youll need a YZ-style kill switch for the starter, a three way toggle switch if you want to still use the headlight, and a sottering iron is a plus.


before


first, take of the front plastics


Now, pull off the wire coming out of the top of the throttle housing and and where it connects to the main harness. Strip the wires close to where it connects to the main harness, sotter these two together, then slap some electric tape on them, then plug it back in the bike. If you dont connect the wires, it will die when you give it gas.



one lesss wire, now do the same for the clutch


Now, for the stock headlight switch, this can be a lil confusing, but nothing too difficult, just take your time, and a test light could come in handy, ill try and explain what color wires do what. Pull the whole switch off the bike, cut the wires a few inches from the switch, and take it apart so that you got the 2 parts seperate, first, the starter. Sotter the brown wire to the red with black stripe, this is for the on/off switch so that it is always on. To wire up the yz switch for the starter, cut the stock connector off it, and sotter them to the red with white stripe wire and the black wire, it doesnt matter which one you sotter to.


the starter is hooked up now, you can plug it back in to the harness if you want to check to make sure its gonna run b4 you start on the light.

for the lights, the blue wire is the main hot wire, it splits it off to the red and the brown wire. Brown = low, red = high, the green and yellow wire are both grounds. You can decide how you want to run the ground wires, for the hot wires, get some slip on wire connetors, (whatever there called), and wire the blue one into the middle of the switch, and the brown and red wires on the outside connectors, i bored out one of the existing holes in the frame to make it fit, it fits right under the plactics so you cant see it unless your just looking for it.




now, just tape up the wires together, bolt up the plastics, and your done.





and a pic of my 07 in the snow

[tjespo22]

nice write up. my friend said the saime thing about the throttle wire. he did my whole harness for me.. and he disconnected that wire.

[wright_450]

nice work, i was wanting to do that with my bars aswell, were did u get yz start button and toggle from?

[racing66atv]

damn so much more work than on my suzuki.

[icecold_shee]

nice work, i was wanting to do that with my bars aswell, were did u get yz start button and toggle from?[/b]

starter from yamaha, toggle from advanced auto parts

[wright_450]

preciate it boss, how much did the starter cost, do i need to buy any additional wiring, did u put heat shrink tubing on it to keep water out, another question, on the toggle switch is there any seal on it so water from ur front tires dont kick up over and short it out?

[jabbahoo]

On my light wires I have a blue wire (taillight), the yellow and green wires (low beam and high beam), and I have a red wire(?) and then a Yellow wire with red stripe( hot wire)? What is the red wire?

[wright_450]

if i was to not run a toggle and just have my lights wired so they never turn off which do i wire up and can it drain my battery faster?

[wright_450]

if i was to not run a toggle and just have my lights wired so they never turn off which do i wire up and can it drain my battery faster?[/b]

ok i followed the right up now she wont start, i dont have a red and white wire the only red combination wire is red and yellow, i took the tors out and and clutch sensor out the only thing on there is my starter u know what could be the deal?

[YFZ450_725]

what do I do with the wire coming out of the front brake perch?

[icecold_shee]

what do I do with the wire coming out of the front brake perch?[/b]

If you dont use a taillight, you can just remove that wire.

[sbracing #67]

what do I do with the wire coming out of the front brake perch?[/b]

If you look on the bottom side of the brake perch where the wire goes in, theres a little black thing you can push in and pull out the wires at the same time, then disconnect the wires under the hood, and tape them up...

[zwitt]

i believe that the 04/05 wires have a difrent coler code then the 06/07

[dchjort]

Well I did the clean up and it looks great, I did check into the light wiring and this is what I got, The Green wire is used for nothing at all the Blue wire is the tale light and low beams the Yellow is for the high beams and the Brown and Red are power for the light relays. I wired mine for high beams all the time tie the Yellow and Blue together and the Brown and Red works great.

[icecold_shee]

Well I did the clean up and it looks great, I did check into the light wiring and this is what I got, The Green wire is used for nothing at all the Blue wire is the tale light and low beams the Yellow is for the high beams and the Brown and Red are power for the light relays. I wired mine for high beams all the time tie the Yellow and Blue together and the Brown and Red works great.[/b]

I believe you should wire up the green wire up to a ground.

[dchjort]

I believe you should wire up the green wire up to a ground.[/b]

When you look at that plug the Green wire does not have a mating wire to hooking it to, grournding will just waist time, I just cut that wire out it has no purpose. I did leave the termal end in to keep the sand out.

[jmess]

Well I did this over the weekend. It was pretty simple. I decided to ditch the low beams and bought a one way switch with an red LED on it. I put it right under my key. Looks clean! Only thing I don't like is the kill switch says "ENGINE STOP" on it. I don't know if the starter will fire while its running now, so people that are new to quads will have to be warned not to hit it to kill the engine.

[guiste]

First off great post, worked very well. However when I was wiring up the lights I hit a bump in the road. Are the brown and red wires that you're talking about the same ones that you have to solder together for the on off switch? Do you have to splice into them? Thanks.

[668rap]

I figured out the problem. I had to wire the yellow onto one side of the switch with the red or brown.

It made no sense to me because the red and brown both came from the same wire so Why would that make the likes go from low to high. It's basically the same wire on either side. It's like taking the red from one side to the other when you flip the switch. Makes no difference. When I wired in the yellow to one side it gave me a low side and a high side.

[668rap]

Oh! And I also did my starter switch differently. I went down the the auto parts store and Bought a contact toggle switch that clicks back into place. It works just the like the killswitch. I'll take pictures. If you do it the way that I did it also cleans up your bars more. I'll post them later