Cracked it open and everything looked fine. I cleaned the corrosion off the connectors and still nothing.
On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 11:09:53 PM UTC-5, Kyle Munz wrote: > > The fuse box on the 650 is a known issue, a bunch of small metal strips > held in a plastic frame. After a while they get lose and lose contact. Also > the female connectors loosen up and loose contact. It's not that hard to > crack open and clean up and straighten out the connectors. The connection > on the bottom left may be arcing and melting the plastic as well. I would > start there and trace the circuits. Even if the problem isn't in there it > will be good to know that that's sorted. > Also, the Clymer manual isn't the most accurate in its wiring diagrams, > I'd recommend the Honda manual if you don't have one yet. > > -Kyle > On Mar 5, 2015 10:01 PM, "paulraymondmedia" <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hey Everybody, >> Just recently bought an 83 Nighthawk 650 and I've been racking my brain >> to figure out a solution to my electrical issue. >> Bike runs with no issues except the tail light is always on, even with >> the key in my pocket. So I metered the tail light and found that the brown >> wire is always live. I traced it back through the Tail light relay to the >> fuse box where I found that the previous owner jumped the Positive feed >> from the battery in the fuse box to the other side of fuse box. Nothing >> else runs with the ignition off except the tail light. I pulled the wire >> out that was jumping the two parts and the bike goes dead. I put it back in >> and everything goes back to normal except for the tail light always being >> on. >> >> Any Ideas on what's going wrong? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
