This makes sense, I'll check the switch this week when I'm working on it. Thanks so much everybody!
On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 6:05:47 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > I was in my 83 recently and took the whole thing apart, the ignition and > the fusebox. > The key point you bring up is that it is only the tail light. The stupid > "Kill-my-battery" parking light is the only thing that comes out of the > ignition that goes to only that one thing, the tail light. My first guess > is that whether the last owner knew what he was doing or not he used the > tail light output from the ignition to power a failed ignition switch. > > There should be power going into the ignition (a larger wire, as i > recall). if that is dead, or the ignition switch is bad, then injecting > power on the isolated parking light wire might have been a viable > work-around. This because the power is supposed to be going to the tail > light in all switch positions, because it is connected to the switch main > power input in almost all positions. You would be feeding it backwards. > > It would get it running, keep it running, and work for a few hours after > shutting it off before the battery goes dead. > -- 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.
