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Fuel level sensor plug vs. electric petcock plug
ridingron:
--- Quote from: pehayes on May 15, 2025, 02:27:56 PM ---Ah, yes. Brilliant engineering design out of Italy. This ranks right up there with the early Norge fairing covering the dipstick.
Two identical plugs, side by side. One set with a color band located some distance away from the plug itself.
They could have used two different plugs.
They could have inverted one pair so it would be impossible to cross-connect.
They could have put both wires into one 'triple' plug.
Bella Figura. More concerned about form vs. function.
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
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My thoughts are to put the 4 wires into a 4 pin connector. The 4 wires connection can't be messed up because the 2 connectors ends only go together one way.
But since they all ready have the 2 pin connectors, putting a red stripe on on connector was probably cheaper and easier than sourcing a 4 pin connector.
nwguy:
--- Quote from: Wayne Orwig on May 15, 2025, 06:28:38 PM ---This will not work.
12 volts goes to the solenoid.
12 volts also goes to the dashboard lamp then to the sensor. It will also measure 12 volts at the plug. If you are desperate, pull the bulb out of the dashboard and get zero volts at the correct sensor plug.
Look on the wire 'accordion' cover. Far away from the plug will be red paint or no red paint. If the sensor has the red paint on the cable cover, then match it to the red pain one in the harness. If the sensor does NOT have red paint, match it to the plug with no paint.
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Hmmmm, I'll ponder this. How hard is it to pull a bulb out of the dashboard? On my ride home after buying this bike the only dash light that seemed to work was the neutral light. I did just replace all the relays though.
kingoffleece:
You'll get that all done in time. Meanwhile, I don't trust my light on the Jackal. It works-but I use the ODO. At 176 miles I'm pushing it.
Kiwi_Roy:
The dashboard lamps are pretty useless, I always replace them with LEDs type 194 much brighter and will last as long as you own the bike.
The only one different is the fuel sensor lamp an LED doesn't pull enough current to make it work right so I use one of the old incandescent lamps in parallel
Please take a picture of the dash and post it here.
I just sent you a PM about your Voltage regulator thread. check My Messages in the menu above.
Roy
Kiwi_Roy:
The petcock is fed via Fuse 1, pull that and it should go dead.
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