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Hello everyone, Just bought a 2003 KDX 220 :grin: Love my 2 strokes! I'm looking at doing some green laning and enduros.

One question I have to begin with is I want to fit some lights. Any one know what colour the live/neg is?
It has a silver box which I believe is cdi? and another box with wires. Would this be for the lighting circuit?

Hopefully this all makes sense :shock:

Cheers Gaz
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welcome aboard
your 220 should have come with lights, so chances are MOST of the wiring is still in there
I would check under the seat for the tail light wiring, and under the tank for the headlight

I don't remember the tail light wire off hand, but on the head light, yellow is the hot lead
newbbewb wrote:DIYmirage has it right.


-1996 KDX 200 woods weapon (converted to 99 green body)
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Thanks for the reply :grin: bang on the money....a red wire and a yellow tucked under the tank. The rear looks like red and a yellow/black one. All I need to do now is fit a brake light switch....any ideas? :wink:

Cheers Gaz
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You can use a pressure switch that replaces the banjo bolt or under the right cover should be a bracket for a machnical switch that you will need to connect to the peddle with a spring. Pressure switch it the way to go IMHO.
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I run two brake light switches on my KDX
one is the pressure switch mentioned about, that replaces the banjo bolt on the front brake lever
the other is a the mechanical switch, mounted to the position mentioned above, and activated by a spring attached to the rear brake pedal
newbbewb wrote:DIYmirage has it right.


-1996 KDX 200 woods weapon (converted to 99 green body)
-1996 KDX 200 plated street toy (barney edition)
-2003 Yamaha TTR125-L (wifeys bike)
-1997 KDX 220 project bike
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Thanks again for everyone's help. Got to say I'm already impressed with this forum :grin:
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Nearly there...just to confirm

1 Yellow wire to light switch, then wire to headlight. Red wire straight to headlight.
2 Sice banjo bolt wire into rear light live and Earth the other wire from banjo bolt

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correct
but when you splice the live wire to the rear, one will still go to the "dim" side of the bulb
the other will run through a switch to the "bright" side of the bulb

did anyone mention you need to buy a new socket in order to run a dual filament bulb ?
I believe the number is 1157

I bought a socket for my KDX on ebay for less then a dollar
newbbewb wrote:DIYmirage has it right.


-1996 KDX 200 woods weapon (converted to 99 green body)
-1996 KDX 200 plated street toy (barney edition)
-2003 Yamaha TTR125-L (wifeys bike)
-1997 KDX 220 project bike
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I just wanted to say something about those banjo bolt switches...THEY ARE AWESOME! lol I've replaced malfunctioning factory manual brake like switches on my quad and quite a few of my buddy's quads with no issues. They work great.

Also, figured this wiring diagram may help, I used it trying to figure out some problems with my old 200:
(disclaimer: I cannot take credit for this, Bufftester made it, the photo came from his Photobucket)
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Cheers Fellas....I'll let you know how I get on
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Lights all sorted, low beam, high beam and brake light. Thanks for all the help.
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