OK... while this continues... help me understand some things about the thumb kill switch.
With switches there are Normally Open and Normally Closed switches.
I don't know the difference, but apparently most other machines have a Normally Open switch.
The KFX has a Normally Closed.
Best I understand it... and I could be wrong... is that with NC, current is flowing through the switch when on, if supplied to it? And turning it off would open the contacts and cut the current flow.
So I assume the thumb kill cuts the power to these two things?
And I guess power to the headlights and starter button too...?
There is a
brown wire... and I would assume that is the hot wire?
Then there is a
yellow/red wire that goes to the coil and the fuel pump relay.
Here is a picture... thanks to knaffie...
The colors are confusing...
But in the end, I have trouble understanding what "leaving it on" is doing to band-aid our problem?
I assume we are leaving power on going to...
Coil
Fuel Pump Relay
Starter Button
Headlights
But with the switch off, there shouldn't be power supplied to it in the first place right?
I'm dumb as chit when it comes to all these wires... but all I can think of is that some how we must be grounding an open or short "the back way"... through the headlight ground wire or something by leaving the kill switch on?
An open/short on the hot wire going to the key switch?
Getting grounded back through the kill switch into the headlight ground wire or something?