Here's a bit of a queer one for you electrical gurus on here. It's got me fucked, Drew will find the issue but he might have to pull the entire loom to bits to sort it. Someone may have an idea that hasn't occurred to us muppets.
A bike is (electrically) running fine. Everything works except the neutral light on the dash which is of no major concern and the indicator fuse is blown. Engine and fairings are removed from the bike to fix a completely unelectrical problem which takes 18 months, in this time the bike sits (engineless) uncovered in the rain. Bike is repaired and reassembled, indicator fuse is replaced because no indicators is a pain in the arse.
Upon turning the key on, indicator fuse blows instantly. Check indicator wiring for shorts and can't find a damn thing. Finally trace fault back to the temp gauge in the dash (WTF?) so this is removed and isolated from the equation. No more fuse blowing and miraculously, the neutral light now works just fine. (WTFF?) So it's riding time. Everything works great (no tempo gauge) but the bike feels a little out of tune. Hunting a little on very light throttle in top gear and feels a bit woolly on acceleration up to mid revs. Other than that, it's fine.
Now it gets weird. Upon serious load (top gear, 3/4 throttle, mid rev range), the bike gives a complete ignition failure for a nano second (feels like a big miss), blows the indicator fuse, and the dash (rev counter and warning lights) goes dead. However, the "out of tune running" completely disappears. (WTFFF?) This is getting strange. Bear in mind the indicator fuse was previously blown but the dash worked fine with the exception of the neutral light.
So logic tells us, that the dash is the problem and it's all our own fault for leaving it to fill with water in Newlands for 18 months, right?
Well last night we completely unplug the dash, removing all power and replace the fuse. This will be sweet, we're clever bastards we tell ourselves over four Steinlagers. Hmmmmm, riding to work today, "out of tune" is back and upon a big wind up on a private closed road, *miss/backfire*, no indicators. Bike feels mint again though.
We're going to have to strip that fucken loom aren't we……..
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