Blinkers and taillights issues

[purplepolkadottedpingpong]

Hello, ok so I have a 2002 big dog pitbull hard tail that I'm having light issues with. A while back I was riding and a deer ran out in front of me and I wrecked the bike. When I ordered blinkers for front and back I got newer blinkers that are a 3 wire system when the ones I took off were a 2 wire system. I was told to ground the extra wire to the bike so I did. Now I have one brake light lit like my brake is on and melts my lense within 2 min if having the bike on and the other tail light is just running one filliment in the bulb. I have no blinkers front or back and my running lights/blinkers are on on the front but not blinking when blinker is hit. Idk. If it is because I went to a 3 wire light on all my blinkers or if it was something that happened in the wreck but any help with this issue would be life saving litterly. I can't seem to find anything online about the issue I'm having at all. Thank you in advance and may God bless all riders with the rubber side down.

 

[Chong]

Don't ground the 3rd wire.. it's a running light curcuit . Which wasn't used in 03 front lights, not sure about 02. You would simply not hook anything to the 3rd wire. With out a turn signal on the front amber lights don't light up. Those 3 wires are ground, run, and turn/brake. You should test these by hooking lights temporarily to a battery. Also with a test light check the wires on the bike itself. That will give you what wires to mate up. I know on my 03 the plug on the bike did not match the wire config of the lamp. I was lucky because the person basically doing this had a pin extractor and re configured the plug on bike to match the light wires order.

I see 02 used a common incandescent bulb and in 03 they started with LED . But the same wire config applies to both.

 

[Chong]

Welcome from Michigan

 

[knothead]

Don't ground the 3rd wire.. it's a running light curcuit . Which wasn't used in 03 front lights, not sure about 02. You would simply not hook anything to the 3rd wire. With out a turn signal on the front amber lights don't light up. Those 3 wires are ground, run, and turn/brake. You should test these by hooking lights temporarily to a battery. Also with a test light check the wires on the bike itself. That will give what wires to mate up. I know on my 03 the plug on the bike did not match the wire config of the lamp. I was lucky because the person basically doing this had a pin extractor and re configured the plug on bike to match the light wires order.

I see 02 used a common incandescent bulb and in 03 they started with LED . But the same wire config applies to both.

I remember this

 

[Chong]

I remember this

Yep it was you .
Thanks again

 

[knothead]

Yep it was you .
Thanks again

No worries my friend I was glad to help

 

[liferider]

Check your fluid levels

 

[Mikeinjersey]

Hello, ok so I have a 2002 big dog pitbull hard tail that I'm having light issues with. A while back I was riding and a deer ran out in front of me and I wrecked the bike. When I ordered blinkers for front and back I got newer blinkers that are a 3 wire system when the ones I took off were a 2 wire system. I was told to ground the extra wire to the bike so I did. Now I have one brake light lit like my brake is on and melts my lense within 2 min if having the bike on and the other tail light is just running one filliment in the bulb. I have no blinkers front or back and my running lights/blinkers are on on the front but not blinking when blinker is hit. Idk. If it is because I went to a 3 wire light on all my blinkers or if it was something that happened in the wreck but any help with this issue would be life saving litterly. I can't seem to find anything online about the issue I'm having at all. Thank you in advance and may God bless all riders with the rubber side down.

Welcome from NJ,
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