What is this wire to?

with my counter sprocket cover off I notice this wire hanging
and for the life of me dont know where it goes

I looked through the book but couldnt seem to locate it

Oil pressure or neutral switch. You'll have to clean it a little to determine the color.

Blue/red or green/orange. But it's probably tarnished brown/yellow from oil and heat.

Oil pressure switch should be up behind the cylinders. Only thing I can think of is the neutral switch. Do you get a neutral light? Have you tried grounding it to see if a light comes on? Neutral switch is Lt Blue/Red. Go to Filebase up in the right hand corner of this page and find your year and model and click on the wiring diagram.
If it turns out be a brown wire then it is most likely a ground wire for something, I don't know what though.

If the oil pressure switch is behind the cylinders, then it only leaves neutral, as Diamond said.

According to the diagram in the filebase, neutral is light green/orange, at least that's what the colors appear to be in the PDF, (which is pretty clear).

Brown is usually switched positive. I can't imagine any reason for a switched positive down there. Usually I find most of the wires down there have a brown grimey look to them.

it is a (switched) hot wire I dont remember unhooking anything when I took the cover off other than the clutch cable i have to belive its the nuetral switch anyone have a pic of the nuetral switch on a kz1000
i dont know where it is located

If it's the neutral wire, then it isn't switched hot.

The neutral wire will appear to behave like a switched hot wire, but it is actually the ground side of the light bulb. Since the ground is lifted, it will appear like a hot wire, but will not provide current like a normal hot wire.

Now that I look closer at the diagram, the neutral wire looks like it may actually be light green with red stripe, instead of orange stripe.

If the wire is truly a switched hot wire, I can't imagine what it would be for.

Here is the wiring diagram, by the way.
www.kzrider.com/filebase/cat_view/97-197...wasaki-kz-1000-a2a2a

loudhvx wrote: If it's the neutral wire, then it isn't switched hot.

The neutral wire will appear to behave like a switched hot wire, but it is actually the ground side of the light bulb. Since the ground is lifted, it will appear like a hot wire, but will not provide current like a normal hot wire.

If the wire is truly a switched hot wire, I can't imagine what it would be for.

That makes sense I am pretty sure it is the nuetral wire

My next question is where does it go lol

Where that big green bolt is! Somebody took your switch out and replaced it with a bolt.

I hate those thieving neutral-switch thieves!

Nothing worse than a nuetral switch thief!

Thats some funny shiz my nuetral lite always had a mind of its own now I know why!

etbike3135 wrote: Where that big green bolt is! Somebody took your switch out and replaced it with a bolt.

what he said ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ordering one now thanks guys