Thanks, grounding that brown/white wire leading to the speedo. After cutting it which end gets ground; the harness end or the end coming out of the speedometer?
Then I splice the red/white power to the cut gray wire to the handlebar AWD switch. This shouldn't magnetize would it?

 

The harness end brown/white wire ties into the brown or a good frame ground. All you're doing is bypassing the speedo as the ground circuit for the awd goes through it. Tying the red/white to the gray should power up the wire when key is on, awd switch is on. Awd indicator should light up.

 

I wouldn't want the 4x4 on at all times. Over time if the hubs get magnetized you never know when might lock in.

 

Jumbofrank; that is the whole point!
If I understand right the AWD only is powered when the hanldebar switch is on....
and my speedo will still work most of the time

 

Is cutting the brown/white wire going to disable my ground from the speedometer?
Can I just splice into it also and ground that?

 

No cutting the brown/white won't disable the speedo. The speedo ground is the brown wire. The brown/white is ground only for the awd circuit that runs from the awd switch,then through the speedo,then goes to the coils.Easy to loose a grounding path along this route the way it was wired up from the factory,plus a common problem to loose ground path through the newer style speedos. Awd shouldn't have even gone through the speedo to begin with.

 

You have to confirm the Hillard engagement plate are being held by the magnetic coil when in AWD in a forward gear key on.

 

My speedo is intermittent and using a voltmeter ; finally got those tiny wires to work. Sorry, can't remember what I did.