Rear lights wiring

[Cook1e]

Hi, does anyone know an easy way to disconnect the rear lights wiring loom?

I want to remove the rear mudguard from the subframe and I seem to have a choice of either cutting the wiring or trying to get under the fusebox and disconnect it from there.

Bike is a 2001 R1150GS.

All thoughts and experience gratefully received.

 

[Ian J Hartley]

So you would rather mess about trying to disconnect wiring in the fuse box which would require special pin extractors.

Or

Cut the wiring loom.

Rather than remove the tail light unit and indicator covers and unplug the 7 spade connectors.

Crack on!

 

[Cook1e]

Yeah, thanks Ian, I've been reading the manual since I posted.

It didn't look possible to pull the spade connectors through the grommets, but I'll have a go tomorrow.

 

[Ian J Hartley]

Can’t you remove the grommet without removing the wiring.?

The wiring loom is made up as a complete assembly with all terminations made. So if the grommet is tight, then the loom would have been manufactured with the grommet.

 

[Cook1e]

I've packed in for the day, but I'll see tomorrow. When I made the OP, it looked like a right pain to un-thread the wiring from the indicators and tail light and re-threading seemed like it would be impossible.

Having looked at the manual, and realising the loom must have been threaded through the mudguard etc when the bike was built, I need a closer look. Maybe I need to dismantle the number-plate carrier and other bits of bracketry.

 

[Steptoe]

Unplug from lights pull through. Simple as that.

 

[Cook1e]

Unthreaded wires and got mudguard off OK. Lots of wire-brushing, sanding and painting now.

I'm also busy training one of the shed-spiders to pull the wiring back through when I'm done