Green ring terminal ground to frame location?

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Hi,

Oddly specific question for my 1976 CB360T here. Finally getting ready to install the headlight which means I need to sort out the remainder of the ratsnest of wires hanging in between the front forks.

I've figured everything out so far. Only thing I'm uncertain about is where this green ring terminal should go. Pretty sure this is the ground to frame ring terminal. Sorry, for the life of me could not figure out how to rotate the image right side up.
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Where should I place it?

Thanks for any advice
 

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I looked at the handlebar risers and can't seem to find any ring connector/wires anywhere. Do you by chance have a picture of what you're referring to?

More news, upon exploring more I found a green ring terminal that seems to be grounded next to the left coil.
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I tested connectivity and this ring terminal has connectivity with all the other green wires (green diodes of the wiring harness, the ring terminal mentioned in the first post), as expected. So, what would be the purpose of the initial ring terminal if this one is already grounded?
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Because of the rubber mounting of many front end parts, like the grommets at the 3 mounting points of the headlight bracket - #1 in this fiche

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I don't have any pictures of that area.
The horn button grounds thru the handle bars according to the wiring diagram. That means the bars have to have a ground.
So on one of the 2 handle bar riser studs you will add that ring terminal to. Assembly order is riser and rubber bushing into the top bridge/triple the rubber bushing, flat washer, ring terminal, lock washer and nut. It doesn't matter which one of the risers gets grounded. Ring terminal wire gets plugged into a solid Green connector.
 
Awesome Jim thank you! Just installed the ring terminal to one of the riser bolts and now the horn works.

ancientdad, I was thinking about that... the headlight stay is surrounded by rubber bushings, so how are the turn signals supposed to ground? mine are replacement/aftermarket signals. They’re dual filament so 1 wire for the signal and 1 for running lights, and when I bought them it said that “they’re grounded through the metal body of the assembly.” so no ground wire. this is different than the wiring of the stock signals. the stocks came with a 3rd green ground wire.

***EDIT: unknowingly to me at this point, what I thought was a "3rd green ground wire" from looking at simple wiring diagrams was actually the 2 green wire ground nuts, pictured in my later post, #12. These ground the turn signals. So all the work I did after this was unneeded. ***

but mine are not flashing, it seems they’re not grounding through the metal body as advertised. they only flash when I manually ground them with a screwdriver to the front forks or something. I’m going to go buy a ring terminal to male bullet connector, install the ring connector to the turn signal stem, and plug the bullet into a green ground diode on the harness... should work, I think?
 
Using any green multi-connector is fine for that, anywhere on the bike. Just as black is switched power everywhere on the harness, so is green for ground. If you have at least one open green female connection in the headlight case, you could get ring terminals large enough to go over the signal mount studs and solder the two grounds together into one wire and plug it into the open female green terminal
 
cool, I’ll run to get some wiring and such. what gauge wire do you recommend? from what I can find, 16-18 should be good?
 
I believe 16 is what is used all across the bike (except the starter cable)


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bilbikek411 said:
Yes.
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Ground connections are Very important.I would clean the ground connection areas on your regulator & rectifier plus any green wire or negative battery strap(taillight and rear signals too) where it makes solid contact with the steel frame:metal to metal.I like to use a little di-electric grease on them so they stay nice for a while.
 
Thanks everyone for the help. Successfully affixed ground wires to each front turn signal stem, both signals are flashing now.
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Also installed the headlight and it's nice and bright.

Final question. What is the purpose of these headlight ground nuts? My 2 headlight mount bolts (where they're supposed to go, inside the bucket) are currently too short for me to fix the ground nuts onto them. Everything electrical seems to be working fine without them installed, but I'm guessing this doesn't mean they're not important. If they are important, I can just buy 2 longer headlight mount bolts to affix them to. BTW, my bucket is metal, not plastic like the original.

Sorry for so many apparently simple electrical questions.
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Those "Headlight ground nuts" are the correct grounding for the turn-signals and anything else mounted on the headlight bracket.....
Had you correctly installed them, you wouldn't have needed the new wires to the turn-signal stems.......
 
66Sprint said:
Those "Headlight ground nuts" are the correct grounding for the turn-signals and anything else mounted on the headlight bracket.....
Had you correctly installed them, you wouldn't have needed the new wires to the turn-signal stems.......
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Ah. that's embarrassing. can't believe I didn't put 2 and 2 together. so I made some nice low-profile grounds for the turn signals for ... absolutely no reason. :supergeek::lightbulb:eek:h well. may as well keep it as it is I guess.
 
Don't be embarrassed, we ALL learn by making mistakes, and at least you are asking the correct questions......
However, While we are at it, that "washer wire" is simply a wire with a ring terminal end......Correct nomenclature is both learned and helpful....
 
Indeed, I realized that after making the thread, but couldn't edit the thread title lol. Maybe an admin can change it for me. I referred to them correctly in the first post, at least.
 
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