Its an old cat lol id leave them bypassed lol easier to eliminate future problems

 

I'm planning to leave the carb switches bypassed but I'm wondering about that one on the handle bars more.

 

Pretty sure it is closed to run style? You can by pass any switch you want by jumping past the switch...carbs, key, handle bar switch, doesnt matter.

 

I think if you watch this video you will find what your looking for as it tells how to disable the carburetor tps while keeping your kill switch working. TPS disable while keeping kill switch:

 

So if the wiring is the same as the one in the video that should do what I want. Currently I have the ground and the middle wire jumped on that plug by the gauges. I have the carb ones unplugged. Now I'm confused because according to that video the engine should die when I give it gas, mine doesn't do that though. Unless there is some magic going on. I guess I'll be playing with that this weekend after I get the clutch figured out.

And yes it's a closed to run, ignition needs to be grounded.

 

On yours it may not run the same as the one in the video just as I had a prowler recently that bogged down badly when given throttle though would stay running that disabling the tps solved it's problems.

 

I could post the diagrams if that would help. I would have figured those would all kill the engine the same way.

 

The detectors on the carbs serve two purposes.
1. To tell if the slides are stuck open or not.
2. To kill the spark if they are not moving.

A third and little known function is if the carbs are too far out of synch it will interfere with the spark too.
Most are unhooked/bypassed because of this reason [someone did not think to synch the carbs].

 

Are you supposed to bypass them by always having the circuit closed?

 

Correct!

 

Found out those carb switches do not work. Can't figure out the kill switch on the throttle, I think it's bad. The switch for when you move the throttle does work. I need to mess with it more to figure it out now.

Looking at the diagram I would have to jump red and white on that three prong handle bar plug. That should be all I have to do since the high speed switch works.

 

Got this all sorted out now. It seems to be running. Only willing to test so much without brakes and around midnight. I did what I said above along with tieing those carb switches together.