Icemaestro
28th April 2009, 11:40
For a little while now the right hand side of my rev counter hasn't been lighting up at night (figure blown bulb, no worries)...then about a month ago the neural light started playing up - sometimes it'd light up, other times it wouldn't, and if it wasn't lit up, I'd have to put in the clutch to start the engine (even though the bike is actually in neutral).
Anyway, yesterday I finally got round to looking at it, took out one of the bulbs, took it down to repco, got a similar (the bulbs I have need to be 3w, 12v, I only managed to get a 12v 1.5w bulb...figured It'd be okay, just dimmer)...anyway I go to put it in place of one of the blown bulbs...and now all the back lights for the instruments don't light up. The indicator lights, high beam lights, speed (when I go over 85km) light all work...just no instument backlights whatsoever....
Anyone know why this is, what I can do to fix it? Just had a thought it might be a fuse, though the fact that all the other lights are working suggest that it's not?
The bike is a 83 cbx250rs...ha. I do have the service manual, couldn't find anything in there as of yet about it, but haven't looked really thoroughly...
Anyway, yesterday I finally got round to looking at it, took out one of the bulbs, took it down to repco, got a similar (the bulbs I have need to be 3w, 12v, I only managed to get a 12v 1.5w bulb...figured It'd be okay, just dimmer)...anyway I go to put it in place of one of the blown bulbs...and now all the back lights for the instruments don't light up. The indicator lights, high beam lights, speed (when I go over 85km) light all work...just no instument backlights whatsoever....
Anyone know why this is, what I can do to fix it? Just had a thought it might be a fuse, though the fact that all the other lights are working suggest that it's not?
The bike is a 83 cbx250rs...ha. I do have the service manual, couldn't find anything in there as of yet about it, but haven't looked really thoroughly...