| Author | Message | ||
     Ochoa0042 |
took my bike out for a ride today and my lights cut out near the beginning of the ride and are not working.. the dash shows the highbeam is on, but neither of the lights are on. checked the fuse, good. checked the wires, all plugged in. im not sure what could be the problem, surely they both cant blow out at the same time. not sure whats up here.... | ||
| Evil_mechanic |
Use a test light and check that you are getting power and ground down at the bulbs. if you have both then you blew a bulb. if not then check for cont. between the fuse and bulb if you have no power at the bulb. if you are missing ground then check the ground that goes to the lights. | ||
| Ochoa0042 |
i unplugged the light's cable and plugged it back in and they're working now  .. hum | ||
| Firebolt32 |
i unplugged the light's cable and plugged it back in and they're working now .. hum Check the pins on the connectors of the harness. This happened to me and it was a bad ground wire at the pin in the connector housing. I chased it for days and gave up. H/D tech found it. Took him awhile... | ||
| Froggy |
The highbeam coming on is a sign of a bad ground. The fact that playing with the wires fixes it means that its either poor contact or a broken wire. Play around with it more and narrow it down, you don't want it to shift back into off mode when you are 100 miles from home at 10pm. | ||
| Midknyte |
Don't know the p/n off hand, but the sub harness is only about $10. Don't avoid getting one for not knowing how cheap it is. | ||
| Ochoa0042 |
yea i bet it is a broken wire because when looking at the connector.. it has alot of freeplay and when the bike is running i bet it shakes it to cause it to break the wire at the connector area.. i'll check it out when i can.. thanks y'all | ||
| Firebolt32 |
you don't want it to shift back into off mode when you are 100 miles from home at 10pm. Unless your in Alaska during the 6 months of day light! | ||
| Iamarchangel |
Been there, The ground wire was corroded inside the sub-assembly connector. Made a jumper cable to go past it. We're good now. |
