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     Firebolt32 |
Here's a good one for ya BadWebers. I was out and about from about 3.30 on yesterday. Before hitting downtown I rode back to the house to take care of the dogs. This was about 9.30 so it had been dark about an hour. I haven't noticed anything unusual to this point. The road I live on is pretty dark, everything seemed fine on the way down to the house. Turned the bike off, took care of the dogs, hoped back on the bike and headed down the street. I noticed no light! Turn signals and tail/break light is fine. Got it in the garage, all fuses seemed fine as well as connections to the lights. I run two high beam housings with hyper white bulbs. When toggling from low to high on the switch, the high beam light on the dash stayed lit. I'm about to go dig into it. Just wanted to see if anyone had some ideas. This is posted in the XBoard as well. I'm clueless at this point. No broken or chaffed wires that I can see. Fuses and bulbs are fine as well. | ||
| Smiley1eye |
Mine had the exact symptoms. Turns out that it was a broken ground wire that goes from the front harness to the ground screw on the steering head. Not only does that ground the headlights and light the hi beam indicator, but it's also the ground for the horn (and probably some other stuff too.) I have a Lightning and you have a 'Bolt, but I'd wager that there is still a ground that has broken loose. I wired my grounds into the flyscreen bracket and then took a very flexible strap and went from the bracket down to the ground point. This way, the movement of the steering head doesnt break the wires. | ||
| Tom_s |
That was a good idea, Smiley1eye. Had the same problem on the '06 Uly, twice! Thought I had it fixed the first time. Nope. If I had had a couple larger elect. terminals on hand for the second fix I would have done the same thing you did. And maybe tie wire it to that horizontal cross bolt. Instead-- Got to pull the lights to really get room to work & solder the wires that seem to want to break right off at the terminal. Piece of aluminum, got to bend & roll it in as you go. This one is too long. You can see the 3 offending ground wires. One of these 4 wires also grounds, somewhere, the GPS the PO had installed.  Better. Heated up the terminal & pulled out remains of broken wire. Spread the terminal, strip wires, stick 'em in the terminal, crimp, solder.  Bolt up to new position. Push/bend the strip back as far as you can. I crossed the wires over to the other side of the large group that they come out of. Stick the lights back in place & move forks lock to lock to make sure everything clears, does not bind on other wires, etc.  Forgot that I had put in this temp ground for the horn. I put it back to normal after the last (I hope) fix. I think it sounded better, maybe that is not the best ground. Just didn't want to mess with taking out the lights again at the time.  If your horn quits, or the blue high beam indicator comes on when the switch is in the low beam position, you need to fix this ground. Glad I had the cheapo aux lights the first time I lost this ground. It was dark outside! You can just see it on the headstock here, from left side of the bike. Hard to reach.  Now to replace the stator on my '96 S1. Uly usually sits I ride the old hotrod S1. I like it better. (Message edited by Tom_S on June 07, 2009) |
