| Author | Message | ||
     Zynthaxx |
I have a '06 XB12X, which became a bit "moody" this spring, behaving as if it had a bad battery even after I replaced the old one, so I'm beginning to think it might be a bad ground connection. The problem is that the screw holding the ground wire to the frame is half-hidden behind the fuse box, next to the battery. Is there any trick to loosening it (e.g. removing the fuse box), or is it meant to be a bit awkward? | ||
| Desert_bird |
The fuse box need to be removed to get at that. Pretty easy to wiggle out. It just clips into position. Look at it carefully with a flat-head in hand, and you'll see how it's fastened in there. | ||
| Zynthaxx |
Thanks, I suspected that, but wanted to make sure before breaking something. | ||
| Uly_man |
Take it easy removing the fuse box or you may break one of the holding tags. Use two flat screw drivers, or other, each side and if not yet done file off the paint of the frame bolt face. | ||
| Zynthaxx |
Yep, that's exactly how I did it, and it seems to have done what it should - the slight hesitation that I've had since forever when passing high-comp on startup seems to have gone too. But of course, in a Murphyesque turn of fate, I got a second electrical gremlin when doing a shakedown ride: My low beam turns off and the high beam indicator turns on when the steering head is in a certain position. I've pulled off the flyscreen and identified where to pinch the cable stem that goes up along the tree to provoke the problem, so I guess I'll have to disassemble it and identify the broken and/or shorted cable(s). | ||
| Desert_bird |
Ahh, the XB saga continues! Such cool bikes. Such byzantine, primitive electrics. | ||
| Ratbuell |
um...leftie-loosie?  | ||
| Bluebiker |
"Ahh, the XB saga continues! Such cool bikes. Such byzantine, primitive electrics." At least they're not labeled 'LUCAS'. | ||
| Zynthaxx |
"um...leftie-loosie?" Should'a thunk of that.  | ||
| Ratbuell |
Sorry, couldn't resist. Besides...all the "real" answers had already been covered!  | ||
| Uly_man |
This Earth mounting point caused timing/and or fuel issues on my 06 bike. The bike would run but, after a LOT of testing, found the bike would run better as it got hotter if I re-started the engine. One day I went to start it and the dash lights were not working right and it would not fire up. After messing with it a while, and trying to bump it, I recalled some mention of Earth problems. I started at this point and the dash lights came on as normal. With a jump start it fired up fine and was a whole new bike after that. This is a well know problem and even Buell have a tech sheet on it, as I found out latter, to fix the problem. The later bikes, or at least the 10 bike, has no paint on the mount face. | ||
| Zynthaxx |
@Ratbuell: No need for apologies. :-) UPDATE: It turns out the low beam problem was due to one of the ground cables that's attached to the frame behind the headlight assembly. The cable had simply snapped, and was hanging on to the mounting ring by a single filament. With that fixed, everything's back to normal. |
