Ok, Sunday I spent 10 hours straight working on the bike. No stops for lunch or anything. From previous posts you can see I was fighting the wiring. Part of the problem was my stupid assumption that the wiring diagram in the back of the Clymer manual would actually be correct. As you can see, the wiring diagram shows the four wires for the starter switch. According to Mr Clymer the red/black and red/yellow are bridged when the button is free and the black and blue/white are bridged when the button is pressed. Well that’s WRONG Col Sanders! See, since my four wires were cut and I didn’t get my new starter switch yet I didn’t have any idea how these wires should really be, so I was gullible and trusted the damn manual. Working on this wrong assumption I went ahead and twisted the red/black and red/yellow wires together while trouble shooting other systems and for the life of me couldn’t figure out why I was having such a damn hard time. Lights were coming on that shouldn’t be on, ones that should be on weren’t coming on, etc etc.
Well after 8 hours of banging my head against the wall I succumbed to frustration and gave up. I grabbed a 
and pulled up a seat, ok actually it was the cat’s stoop 
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, but I sat back, enjoyed my beverage and just stared at the diagram on the wall 
. I stared and I stared and concentrated and tried to understand. Finally waiting was filled and I grokked in fullness that it was WROOOOONNNNGGG!!! Ahh! Why would blue/white be bridged when the button was pressed? Blue/white feeds the headlight and thats s’posed to be turned off when you start the bike! It just didn’t make sense! Finally I started to suspect that the diagram was less than accurate and thought to myself, “How would I have wired this?” Well, its simple Bob, I would want the blue/white bridged to red/black when the button was free, and the red/yellow bridged to black when the button was pressed. Well sure enough, THAT’S HOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE!!!! ARG! I wasted almost 8 hours tracing down every circuit in that damn bike looking for a short or a loose ground all because the manual was wrong. Did I mention the manual was wrong? Oh man, felt good to get that off my chest. The damn manual was w-r-o-n-g.