{"id":2438,"date":"2016-03-31T18:42:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2016-03-31T18:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:42:31","slug":"honda-gl1800-rear-harness-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/31\/honda-gl1800-rear-harness-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda GL1800 Rear Harness Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

As any motorcycle ages, design defects begin to show. \u00a0Things the manufacturer can’t simulate in a few years of testing.<\/p>\n

One of those are 2 ground wires on the GL1800. \u00a0The first one is up behind the left fairing pocket. \u00a0The one we are going to discuss is the rear light feed.<\/p>\n

If your bike has strange light issues…turn a signal on and the other ‘ghost flashes’ (faint glow). \u00a0Hit the brakes and your turn signals come on. \u00a0You more than likely have a ground issue. \u00a0The bike we are about to show you is a 2006 GL1800. \u00a0This large grey connector is the rear light feed. \u00a0All the wires are 18ga except the ground; it appears to be 14ga…maybe a 16. \u00a0The wire is large enough for the load, but the tiny metal terminal inside it is not. \u00a0It gets hot from the resistance. \u00a0This in turn damages the housing. \u00a0Take a look at the pics…..<\/p>\n

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That is the ‘light side’ of the connector….those wires go to the rear tail lights. \u00a0Below is the bike side.<\/p>\n

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This is terminal that was removed from the plastic housing. \u00a0Or what’s left of it. \u00a0This was a brass terminal when it was built.<\/p>\n

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So what we did was remove that tiny terminal. \u00a0We could not get the metal pin out of the other side due to heat damage. \u00a0Cut the wire, stripped it back and installed a large brass terminal that was used on the GL1500 headlight. \u00a0Way more surface area and reduced resistance make for an ideal fix.<\/p>\n

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As any motorcycle ages, design defects begin to show. \u00a0Things the manufacturer can’t simulate in a few years of testing. One of those are 2 ground wires on the GL1800. \u00a0The first one is up behind the left fairing pocket. \u00a0The one we are going to discuss is the rear light feed. If your bike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricalconnection.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}