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| Old and new connectors exactly the same except for the colour |
OK so the 2004 Daytona has no light switch, as the lights are permanently on, they switch off when the starter is pushed but they draw considerable current from the battery before that, which I have always thought is crazy. As my battery is getting a bit weak I wanted to give the maximum current to the started motor on start up so I thought I would replace the new type (no light switch) with an old style one with a 3 position light switch. As you can see the loom connector is the same (except for the colour), however on the 2004 bike the clutch switch is wired directly onto the loom, there is no connector, whilst the old style one has a 3 pin connector shown below.
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| Inside the clutch switch just 2 wires |
The picture above shows the inside of the clutch switch as removed from the clutch perch, it just pushes in and out and you can see the small catch that holds it. There is a small hole in the clutch perch if yours doesn't want to come free easily.
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| The clutch switch connector from the "old" commodo with 3 wires |
Above is the clutch switch connector from the loom side with it's 3 wiresI have read that the third middle wire does serve some purpose however it is unclear to me. So I cut off off this connector and fitted a couple of bullet connectors to the yellow/black and black wires and taped up the middle wire.
The rest is simple plug and play, which is what I did, after having cleaned out the "old" switchgear with a bit of WD40. All works and now I have a fully functional light switch, just need to remember to switch it on and off now!
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| Removed this connector and replaced with 2 bullet connectors |
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| Added some carbon fibre wings |
The photo above is old old FZR fairing to whihc a added a couple of carbon wings to the broken parts and which I will add into the package of "to be painted bits"
