MOPED ARMY

Your headlight has a pretty good chance of being burned out. As for the other bulbs, running without a battery isn't good for them, but I imagine they will be okay. You'll need to have the bike running and a charged battery to get a good judgement of what does and doesn't work, bulb wise.

Does your speedometer assembly have "Off, Start, and Run" above the key? The three positions have a rev limiter(which someone who understands better than I can explain) for the start position that can keep the bike from starting if wired incorrectly.

Jesus. It's like I didn't even read your post. My bad. I imagine Mr. Rutherford, whose screen name I cannot remember, will have an intelligent answer.

I'll take all the bulbs out and check. The ones I did check seemed fine but I will get all new 6 volt bulbs. The right signal didn't even blink, just lit up the bulb on the cluster. I'm still not sure why it wouldn't start with the ignition on. As soon as I unhook it, it starts on the first kick.

I've heard those headlights are expensive. I saw there is a way to bust out the old one at put in a new one? I'll find another thread on that.

maybe pics of the wiring with and without ignition switch would help - I assume you mean ignition cylinder where the key goes in. My bet is you don't have that ignition cylinder wired in right. On the express, you just have to connect the red and black wires to bypass the ignition cylinder (or if you don't have one), if memory serves. It's been awhile but the qt can't be much different. I wouldn't worry about the lights/bulbs until you get it started but the headlight and tail light are probably blown because of no battery or completely dead battery. (edited)

That's a puzzler. Is the kill switch wire black/white on the qt50? I've been dealing with Honda Express wiring lately so sorry. Anyhow maybe something is grounding out your kill switch wire when the key is in the on position. Or maybe something is up with the new cylinder and you have it opposite how it should be. Is your new cylinder a 3 position switch or two? Maybe you answered that already. I'll look.

I got some pictures of how the ignition is wired in behind the head light. Ignition is the loom on the right from the two that come in from the driver side of the light. And also how I took the cylinder apart to make the connection like I had a key. On my way to the parts store to see if they have bulbs. (edited)

FWIW, I once bought a Honda Express that the previous owner had wired in a qt50 ignition cylinder. This leads me to believe the opposite could be done with an Express ignition in a qt. You can find them for $18 or so on ebay. qt50 ignition cylinders are much more pricey.

On the 84 I had, I ended cutting and splicing in a used MJ50 ignition key switch into the harness. Mine was three position, though. Different wires soldered to the contacts on the original. I could not find on a generic one with the same. The brown is turn signal/horn , grey is oil light, if I remember right. Red and black with red stipe wires are your start circuit, black is ground.

Make sure to get a 6v relay. I had to hunt for awhile find any yamaha switch (qt50/mj50/whatever else) that was similar.

If anything, you can try pushing out the pins of the female connector and rearrange them in the correct order to match your new switch. May or may not work, but that saves you from have to splice.

Nevermind about the switch fellas, got it all figured out. Got it mounted back in the cluster and works as it should. Now just waiting for the flasher relay, then gotta find what's wrong with the tail/brake light, get a new headlight, tag it and we are road worthy. Thanks guys!

Okay, got the new flasher. Right side still works, and it fires faster than with the old one. Left side still doesn't work, but the light on the cluster blinks instead. Anybody have any thoughts on that? Also I found nothing with the tail/brake. So if anyone has suggestions on that also, it would be appreciated.

I looked over the wires and didn't see anything unusual. I didn't dig real deep into it. I took the switch box off of the handle bars and everything looked good there.