Well it proves to keep looking. Glad you posted that. Pictures help. Tape wrapped wires keep them together but don't protect much. I prefer point to point wiring as opposed to Printed circuit boards.

Found the wire its not even burned into, it is the Br/L brown and blue goes to the main switch in the on position from there to the main fuse, turns to R/W and continues to the CDI. That explains why it was blowing fuses when switch turned on , not doing that now but still buzzing at solenoid. Not much damage really shouldnt be causing a problem, once i removed it off the exhaust. Got to dig deeper. Although there are some very suspect areas. To be honest the whole bike is a suspect area, but it runs so good and pulls like a buffalo, although probably the slowest quad i have ever ridden. It does need a new harness but not available and i will not buy a used one, been there done that. I suspect what happened i was doing a lot of sharp turning to back up and hook up my boat, and must have snapped the wire holder loose from their hold down which alowed the wire to fall on the exhaust. I know this is probably boring to most. I only post to bring you along on the journey of troubleshooting wiring so it might help others in the future.

It would be helpful at times to have a button where we could cont the Admin. to make some changes to our posts.

Well if it any consolation, They rest of us are impressed with your "stay -with-it"...

Good Luck on the Hunt for the break/short!!

Working on the Big Bear again today, for the first time when i hit the start button smoke came out from under the front of the engine, looking closer could not really tell where it came from. Reached my hand under there and sure enough the wiring harness was laying on the exhaust manifold so i moved it and the starter turned over the engine. Sure i had found it, tried again and never turned over the engine again just clicking like before. It was so deep under there i could not get to where i could see anything. Kept trying wiggled the wires nothing but buzzing soloenoid. Decided i had had about enough of this, not having fun, its got to be fun and rewarding or not worth the effort, time to take everything back off. Took the tank of just 8 bolts, they didnt want that thing going anywhere. I could see a lot better but couldnt really see where it had burned through and really needed to see the whole layout. Not like i hadnt seen it before, i put it all together from a box o parts, but many machines have crossed my path since i did this one. You can see the main harness in the middle of the photo and then it branches off and goes over the exhaust i can see where it touched but no exposed wire. So now i need to unwrap it all and see which wires are damaged, just looking looks fine hopefully it will be obvious once unwrapped.