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Ligase
Posted on Saturday, July 22, 2017 - 07:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I need some guidance. I have a 2008 Ulysses XT (16K miles) that stalls when I turn the handlebars to the right. Bike starts up and runs fine until I turn the handlebars. When the bars are turned all the way to the right I lose the dash lights.

Anyone ever experience this? Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Keith
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Mark_weiss
Posted on Saturday, July 22, 2017 - 11:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

When I had a broken ground wire. It did not look broken, but was attached only by insulation to the eye terminal at the steering head.
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Johnshore
Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 12:39 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Same for me. Broken ground wire where the wires wrap around the steering head. I had to open up the wire harness to find the wire. My bike didn't stall but all the gauges would sweep and the time and trip meters would zero out.
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Ratbuell
Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 07:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My ignition ground wasn't bad but my cluster ground had an intermittent break in it. I'd lose my gauges and my trip. The only way I found it was a wiggle test with a test light, the meter didn't react fast enough nor visibly enough for me to catch it as it happened. The old school incandescent test light did the trick.
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Griffmeister
Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 09:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Typical, when you turn the bars most of the flexing seems to happen right at the crimp connector on the head. I did what a few others have done, make a pigtail out of heavier flexible wire to connect to the steering head then splice to the ground wires in a place where they won't flex. It may not be a perfect solution but so far has lasted longer than the original wires.
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Teeps
Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 10:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Here you go...
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/142 838/465647.html
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Ligase
Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 11:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Thank you all for the quick feedback and Teeps for the link. Hopefully I'll be back not he road soon.
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Electraglider_1997
Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 12:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Only make left turns and the upside that you will always end up back where you started.
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Ligase
Posted on Monday, July 24, 2017 - 05:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Electraglider...I could still manage to get lost.

Found two breaks...a black/white wire and a tan/yellow one. Flexing the first stalls the bike and the second takes out the Neutral light.

I couldn't identify a problem with the ground wires but I'll try again before putting everything back together.
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Electraglider_1997
Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2017 - 11:19 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My Electraglide had a similar problem that turned out to be a power wire that was shorting against the frame under the gas tank. So don't think it can only be a ground wire.
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Smorris
Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2017 - 03:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Ligase,

please share where the wires are located that had the breaks?

i think there is an updated or modification for the cover(?) on the loom near the steering head?
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Ratbuell
Posted on Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 06:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My problem was the cluster power wire now that I think about it. Bike never died, just got gauge sweep and a zeroed trip every time.
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Glenn
Posted on Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 09:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Smorris,

Take a look at my thread on this for the splice location.

http://www.badweatherbikers.com/cgibin/discus/show .cgi?tpc=142838&post=1390093#POST1390093
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Ligase
Posted on Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 11:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hopefully this link works.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/153137196@N06/shares/208p28
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Smorris
Posted on Friday, July 28, 2017 - 11:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

thank you glen; that shows it very clearly.
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Glenn
Posted on Friday, July 28, 2017 - 12:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Good, hope you can work it out.
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