| Author | Message | ||
     Dms |
After two evenings spent following wires in the garage:  With any luck my S3's tachometer fuse will no longer blow at unexplained intervals. I had to share my small victory with an audience that would appreciate it! | ||
| Desertfox |
Hell yes! These bikes have the weirdest wiring issues. Good job! | ||
| Two_seasons |
I'll bet I've said this 1,000 in the last 35 years... Don't wire ANYTHING bow string tight. It makes for nightmares down the road! And hard to troubleshoot if your a tech. I understand warranty work comes out of a different bucket, but how much $ is really saved in the end by shorting wiring a couple of inches? | ||
| Nwrider |
Congratulations... for not pulling your hair out prior to finding that! Quite a relief I am sure. | ||
| Buellistic |
The way to stop the MYSTERIOUS WIRING PROBLEMS is to TYE WRAP your wiring so that it is not doing the WIGGLE TEST while you are riding !!! | ||
| Greg_cifu |
My S2 had an issue with a broken tach ground wire when I bought it. Where did you find the damage? Mine was in the loop right at the instrument. | ||
| Two_seasons |
What am I missing in the photo? I see one wire that lost it's insulation and was obviously up against the other discrete wire to the left. Was that single wire from the connector rubbing into the frame and grounding? | ||
| Preybird1 |
I bought some extra wire loom and i use it any time i string wire and wire up anything. Good find on that one congrats. | ||
| Dms |
Here's more info on what actually happened in the off chance it helps someone else who searches for this sort of thing: The tachometer fuse on my new-to-me '01 S3 was blowing occasionally; the bike came with a 20a fuse in the slot instead of the stock 15a and a handful of extras in the underseat bag, which makes me think it's been happening for a while. I took off the fairing and the gas tank and started following wires and wiggling things as best I could. The bike's wiring looks very nice, with wire looms around almost everything and dozens of zip ties holding the harness in place. Nothing seemed especially tight. After several hours of staring at wiring and drinking margaritas, I found this:  The wiring harness was occasionally rubbing against the top of the front engine mount's bolt just behind the triple tree, and the hot wire for the tachometer was shorting to the frame. I didn't notice it at first since the wires seemed to not be touching and turning the handlebars back & forth didn't pop the fuse, but upon third inspection I noticed a telltale dark spot on the bolt. I wrapped the exposed wire with electrical tape, wrapped the wires coming out of the connector with more tape and zip tied the wiring a bit higher than it was before. I should have used something more pro like wire loom, but I didn't have any on hand. I'll check again in a few hundred miles to make sure there's no more contact. I also realized that an S3 without a fairing actually looks pretty sexy; I may have to look into putting a Cyclone light & flyscreen on there some day! | ||
| 01x1buell |
everything is better naked. and i am glad that you fixed the problem. |
