The coloum on the left should be the colour code of the front harness and the coloum on the right should be the colour code of the main harness, the letters down the middle are the pin id's as embossed in the multi-plug plastic moulding.

Main differences are already high lighted

and both are 19 pin harnesses

I know of at leat 4 differnt front harness's, two with 19 pins and two with 22 pins, and they all plug up inside the headlight exactly the same.
I had to work out the differences for myself between the two 19 pin ones and hence the spread sheet

On the 916 the 12 volts is on pin U of the multi-pin, it then goes through the kill switch and onto the start button, which when pressed sticks the 12 volts onto pin S where it goes to the start solinoid

On the 998 the 12 volts comes in on pin S and when pressed goes out via pin B to the starter soinoid

If you have the wrong front harness the solinoid will be connected to the charging light which isn't exactly going to do a lot.

clucking fell!!!

decided id rather have the correct front loom, (time / money) if i can find a second hand one . perhaps it will work then

thanks for your time kev i let you know how it goes

If all else fails send me the one you have and I'll alter it for you, I did it before to get my 998 Hybrid running while I waited for a proper 998 one to come along, took a long time, if it had been a track bike I would have stuck with the one I modified but as the 998 one is a slightly longer loom I needed the right one so I could run the headlight and have all the connectors correctly mounted in the headlight shell.
Somebody else in the same situation as you had that modified front harness off me, but I hung onto the info.

kev

see PM.

she runs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

many thanks to skidlids for his advice and experiance

i took some time today to open up the front loom and cut and join a few wires, as guided.

still no netural light yet though, but on the scale of things thats not so important.