It sounds more like a lose connection in the wiring behind your headlight that's causing the cluster to cut off. Does everything else seem to work fine on the bike? All lights and so forth? Fuses: A-Meter light-tail B-turn signal-front rear brake-horn C-Neutral-oil light D-Headlight
HotrodMamma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Minnesota Blue" <[email protected]> To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 5:44 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Fun with fuses > > Well, I am a little dumbfounded. The instrument cluster on my 83 650 > is cutting out occasionally. The speedo and odometer still work, but > everything else just goes blank. Then I hit a bump and it comes > back. I started looking for a loose connection. I was not able to > find a loose plug on the wire harness (not yet at least). I decided to > open the fuse box to check those and see if I had any corrosion in > there. Here is where it got interesting for me. There should be four > fuses in there. Instead, looking straight at the fuse box, the three > fuses going right to left are fine. The fuse on the far left (again, > looking straight at the fuse box) is not there. Instead, there are > two red wires jammed into the fuse plug. Not sure where they lead to > yet as I am not ready to take it all apart. Just wondering if anyone > has seen this before? Not sure if that is the cause of the cluster > cutting out, but seems like a good place to start. If it is not the > cause, still seems like something worth fixing. So one, possibly two > problems. Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > > MN Blue > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
