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Headlight Basket wiring (wiring location)

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by Secacsm89, Apr 23, 2026.

  1. Secacsm89

    Secacsm89 Member

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    Got a seca 750 and have one dual green wiring that I can't seem locate the correct connection. Attached is the wiring diagram found with green outline, and the wires that I have with a #5 wire tag on.

    As always any help on this would be appreciated.

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    Do you have a hazard light switch on that bike?
    Does it have any voltage when you switch lights/indicator/hazard.

    I looked at the wiring diagram, on my phone(ouch) but sticking a multimeter on it might help more for you to work it out.
     
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    chacal Moderator Moderator Supporting Vendor Premium Member

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    That's not a North American XJ750R wiring diagram, as evidenced by the HAZARD circuit, which is not on any 750 Seca model (I think the wiring diagram is for an XJ1100 or XS1100 model).

    The two green wires may be for the turn signals (if really dark green wires), or, if a medium green with yellow tracer stripes, then are part of the computer dash warning system and test switch.

    Of course, if this bike had the factory touring package (big front fairing), then all bets are out the window, as I can't even begin to decipher what they did there with the auxiliary harnesses that went on that thing.....
     
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    I am missing the hazard switch so that explains that location for that one. Checked Ebay for right bar handle throttle / switch assembly with no luck. Next, one to figure out, is a White/ red tracer at the battery/ coil area. It is a male connection. Got a meter and a factory manual.
     
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    I am missing the hazard switch so that explains that location for that one. Checked Ebay for right bar handle throttle / switch assembly with no luck. Next, one to figure out, is a White/ red tracer at the battery/ coil area. It is a male connection. Got a meter and a factory manual.
     
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    That wire is for the low battery-fluid sensor.....if the sensor is no longer present (few are, since many replacement batteries won't accept the stock low-fluid-level sensor, so the sensor got pitched........). Leaving it as-is will result in the BATT light on the dash flashing.


    The XJ750 Seca never had a HAZARD circuit. The two green wires siamesed into that one bullet connector are most likely for matching green wires coming off the gauge cluster, one from the TEST switch (for the dash warning lights) and the other for the WARNING LIGHT "RESET" pushbutton switches on the gauges unit. NOTE: if you have the factory XJ750R shop manual, note that those manuals are really a combo of the full 1980 XJ650G (Maxim) manual, with a shorter (46-page or so) XJ750R section appended to the front of the book. If you look at the BACK of the entire manual, what you'll be viewing is the wiring diagram for a 1980 XJ650G model....and quite a bit of the diagram won't make sense. The XJ750R wiring diagram(s) are towards the end of that first 46-page forward-part-of-the-book section, and although they're really "circuit diagrams" instead of a real "wiring diagram", you can eventually find the Green/yellow wires (shown as G/Y on the diagrams) coming out of the "dash cluster/gauges" drawing.

    If you have the Haynes 650/750 workshop manual, then in the back of the Electrical section you'll find specific actual wiring diagrams for all the different models, including the XJ750RH/RJ/RK Seca models. Those diagrams have the bonus of also show the connector "types" for each wire/batch of wires (such as the white connector shells and or bullet connectors----bullet connectors are shown as triangles or a "pyramid"), which is much more useful ---- although even there, they only show those green/yellow tracer wires and that siamesed bullet terminal incorrectly.....they show it as two individual bullets.....but that is what those wires are for within the headlight housing.
     

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