kill switch short?

So i decided to clean out my kill switch... well lets just say the insides have seen better days... long story short the internals were completely destroyed from age.. well i hotwired the bike in the "on" position, and it works fine... until i put the housing back together, once i do the bike blows the main 20 a fuse... is there any explaination???

Probably pinching/grounding some wiring would be my guess.

im hopin its a pinch and not a ground idk where the ground wires are on these bikes

Hot wire it before the switch and it can not ground out.

On my KZ650-B1, bypassing the Engine Stop Switch would involve:

-1 Open the circuit between the Ignition Switch and the Engine Stop Switch. This is the Brown circuit on mine.

-2 Open the circuit between the Engine Stop Switch and the Ignition Coils. This is the Red/Yellow circuit on mine.

-3 Jumper/connect the Brown circuit directly to the Red/Yellow circuit.

This approach should eliminate the short circuit and by pass the Engine Stop Switch only if the short is in the section bypassed. :dry:



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Best of success.
Bill

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