with this damn kz650 (1977 B1) it seems that every time i try to fix or improve something, something else ends up breaking. The result is that i make little to no progress and end up wanting to kill myself.
2 weeks ago i bought a reproduction Z1 right-side control switch assembly. I knew it was slightly different from my 650, but with a little bit of wire splicing, i concluded that i had customized it to be EXACTLY the same. The inner workings of the Z1 switch are the same as the 650, just the wire color and connections are slightly different. I connected the new switch, tested all the buttons, everything worked except the running light. Headlight worked, but running light didn't. So i took the new switch off and decided to put the old switch back on for now. When i put the old switch back on, i realized that the headlight had completely stopped working. Still, all the other buttons worked, but my headlight and running light were dead, no light whatsoever.
I checked and double checked connections. I stripped off the plastic covers from the connection points to inspect the wires themselves, everything looked fine. No blown fuses. I never opened the headlight case and i didn't touch any other wires than those for the right-side control. The only other thing i messed with was the throttle cables.
Next, i looked at a wiring diagram and realized that the three wires that need to connect for the headlight to light, is the brown/white wire, blue/white wire, and brown wire. I directly connected those three just for a second to see if the headlight would light, and it didn't. It seems very strange that the headlight could burn out the same time as the running light, i cant understand what happened. Did i do something wrong with the new switch and fry something? Im at the end of my rope with this bike, please help.
1979 KZ650B3
