Somebody prove me wrong or right.
You are proven right...or correct...or..well I did it too and it worked for me.
The right side went easy, the left side was a problem as I tried to put it back together the bottom inside Phillips head screw just wouldn't line up. I was expecting problems. As I mentioned earlier I have a horn in each of those compartments and some other LED wiring that I had installed earlier for the running lights. However, upon removing the other screws and looking in with a flashlight I spied something blue down there blocking the hole. I reach down in there and "what the he.."...I found my T handled 4mm Allen wrench that had been missing for over a year.
Once it was removed and returned to it's long empty hole in the holder, the pieces then lined up just like the right side did..easy peezy. I got a few red marks on my hands and wrists when trying to take the bulb holder out and back in, but they'll be gone tomorrow.
I then tested everything and watched the hyper flashing thinking that maybe it was a good thing. Certainly noticeable. However it was too fast for all my other lighting (top case lights and double Admore light bars) to keep up in the rear and everything seemed to end up out of sync so I took off the front of the side cover to put in the electronic flasher. I found renewed and increased dislike for those three bottom plastic rivets that I've always disliked. I Installed the flasher which was a simple plug n play as it had the same connector as the old one only missing one wire insert. Everything worked. I tried turning off the bike with the turn signal on looking for the crazy flashing bizzaro world light show that max' had mentioned but nothing. I then tried shutting it off with the four way flashers in the on position and
HELL-OH! The lights were all flashing, the glove box latch was clicking, the Speedo and tach were both doing the spin the needle thing over and over..whoa I shut that all off right quick. The fuel pump might have been cycling on and off as well ..there was so much going on it was hard to take it all in. I was guessing that it was that final KIPASS flash that we get that was causing the problem and that somehow there was a back current going on when that happened causing the whole light show thing. I'm pretty sure that there is one fuse that controls only that blinking (It shows as the "
KIPASS Signal relay fuse 10A" on the wiring diagram in fuse box 3, but on my bike the fuse box is labeled as "
10A answer back") and maybe I could just remove that fuse and go without the start up shutdown KIPASS flash....but.... would that upset "the Mighty MAD POWAHs of KIPASS"?...I wasn't going to chance it, so I started experimenting. I cut the black wire on the electronic flasher and using a couple of jumper wires I inserted a diode into the circuit and tested the shutdown with the four way flashers and it shutdown with the usual one KIPASS flash and remained quiet. The diode was just a one amp Radio Shack component I had sitting around. I searched for a larger one but, NO, none there. I found another 1 amp diode and soldered them in parallel to get a 2 amp diode out of them into the black wire with the diode's silver band on the bike end of the wire leads (photo below). I successfully tested it and then taped and wrapped it all up.
SPECIAL THANKS! to: PeteTN_zgtr, maxtog, and DaddyFlip for all the good info.