If you are encountering a total black-out of lights and display, the only thing common to all of those is the ground. Sounds that way to me.
--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Minnesota Blue <[email protected]> wrote: From: Minnesota Blue <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Fun with fuses To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 10:40 PM Everything else seems to work fine. I have been getting an intermittent tail light indicator on the cluster, but I was working under the impression that it was symptomatic of the entire instrument cluster problem. As far as the fuses, it looks like I can pull the wires our of the fuse plug and insert a new fuse. My only worry is where those wires lead. Sounds like my only course of action is to take the headlight off and go from there. I get nervous messing around with wiring. Still new to motorcycle maintenance. So for the fuses, A B C D. Is that left to right then? Thanks! Brian On May 29, 8:52 pm, "Creative Residential Designs" <[email protected]> wrote: > It sounds more like a lose connection in the wiring behind your headlight > that's causing the cluster to cut off. Does everything else seem to work > fine on the bike? All lights and so forth? > Fuses: > A-Meter light-tail > B-turn signal-front rear brake-horn > C-Neutral-oil light > D-Headlight > > HotrodMamma > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Minnesota Blue" <[email protected]> > To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 5:44 PM > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Fun with fuses > > > Well, I am a little dumbfounded. The instrument cluster on my 83 650 > > is cutting out occasionally. The speedo and odometer still work, but > > everything else just goes blank. Then I hit a bump and it comes > > back. I started looking for a loose connection. I was not able to > > find a loose plug on the wire harness (not yet at least). I decided to > > open the fuse box to check those and see if I had any corrosion in > > there. Here is where it got interesting for me. There should be four > > fuses in there. Instead, looking straight at the fuse box, the three > > fuses going right to left are fine. The fuse on the far left (again, > > looking straight at the fuse box) is not there. Instead, there are > > two red wires jammed into the fuse plug. Not sure where they lead to > > yet as I am not ready to take it all apart. Just wondering if anyone > > has seen this before? Not sure if that is the cause of the cluster > > cutting out, but seems like a good place to start. If it is not the > > cause, still seems like something worth fixing. So one, possibly two > > problems. Any suggestions? > > > Thanks! > > > MN Blue --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
