Rear tail light - 08 te450

I just soldered mine because I didn't trust the connectors that came with the light.

I just removed my turn signals and supporting bracket and moved everything under the seat and noticed my tail/brake light was flaky due to the connection so I cut everything and used weatherproof screw caps to connect everything and then shrink wrapped it all in a nice tight little bundle and tucked it away. Cleaned up everything nicely.

Same as my 07 te610, I had to get the voltmeter to figure it out also.
Good info

I fitted the race light supplied at the weekend and works fine, although when the engines running the light is on and the brake light works, engine off and rear liht works but goes out upon applying the rear brake,its an 09 model, I thought i read some where this is normal, can anyone enlighten me please.

Now installing the race tail light and don't have any instructions. Can anyone tell me if I need to drill the fender to attach, or if the tail light somehow mounts to the subframe? Thanks.

Yes, you have to drill into the fender. I only drilled two holes and it is holding up fine.

I left the standard mounting frame for the indicators and standard lights on and mounted the Euro LED guard with one bolt, then secured the top of the LED housing to the guard with some liquid nails. Its solid as! and no holes!

No holes in my fender. I used the bracket that the indicator lights attach to, attached the race light to it with one bolt, and liquid nails on the top of the light securing it to the underside of the fender.

Can get pics if needed.

This is weird, I was just in the garage doing the new bike (09 TE310) tear down and switch to the cool stuff. I was ready to do the taillight, but came inside the house to check on dinner and this post came up! Someone has ESP!

Thank you!

I have had the enduro light on before and it worked fine. I am installing it again. I have the wires attached correct and the turn signals work but the light is bright like the brake is on.

I have the black to blue, yellow to yellow and the red to green or whatever the other colors are.

When I unhook the red wire just the running light is on, but as soon as I touch the red it is bright again.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hmm. Dumb question, but are your brakes really on? If not, I would use a voltmeter to see if there is voltage on the brake light signal from the bike (green wire relative to ground). If so, it means your brake lights are on for some reason and you'll need to find out why. If the green wire has zero volts on it yet the brake light comes on when you hook the red wire to it, I would unhook the running lights temporarily while you figure things out with a voltmeter.

put a voltmeter on it and it had power coming through, so the brakes were on.

the switch under the front brake and come loose, put it back in place and it all works.

Thanks

Mine's also Departed

I was just looking at that other tail light/small fender that came with bike to see if I could use it yesterday. My entire tail light assembly including plate and plate holder fell off two weeks ago. Miraculously found all the pcs. but they were destroyed except for plate. Now it's on my Transalp but that's another story. This wiring info is Very Helpful and Timely. Thanks. Problem I can't yet solve is the replacement small tail light fender thing wont mount up to the alum pcs. back there now. I'm going to have to get some other piece it's apparently designed to mount to which itself is supposed to attach to the alum. pc.

Can anybody get us a group purchase price on a drum of Loctite?

John

If your talking about the "race" light that came with your bike it's designed to mount straight to the plastic rear fender. You drill three holes and use the supplied hardware to bolt it on.

Re: 2009 TE310 enduro fender, is the tail light supposed to work with brakes or just as a running light? I wired mine and it stays at one brightness and doesn't change when brakes are applied.

I believe it is the same as my '08. Yes, it has both running light and brake light. The running lights work when the ignition is on, whether the engine is running or not. The brake light is brighter and works only when the engine is running. Same as the stock tail light.

You can touch the tail light leads to the battery to make sure it works and see what it is supposed to look like. And you can use a voltmeter to make sure you're getting voltage at each pin on the bike's wiring harness.

I am trying to wire up the race tail light and wondering if I should cut into the stock wiring harness or use the supplied wiring plug in. Any advise?

Here is the race light bolted up to the rear fender with flushmount blinkers hot glued onto the licence plate frame. I am not too concerned about drilling my plastic as I will be mounting my GiantLoop bags on soon.

when I did mine the stock wiring harness ends were larger than the supplied wiring plugs with the enduro fender so I cut the ends off (with 1" leads) of the street directionals and used the same size male/female and soldered them. I went to Radio Shack, VIP, Advance Auto and Auto Zone - no one had the same size connectors that Husqvarna used. Wierd (I thought)

Pay attention, the brake light only turn on with the engine running! If engine off doens't work!