It's beginning to feel that way...tracking down grounds on my Hawk...my least
favorite thing to do..Fuses, from left to right I believe...HotrodMamma
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Hammerl
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:05 PM
Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Fun with fuses
If you are encountering a total black-out of lights and display, the
only thing common to all of those is the ground. Sounds that way to me.
--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Minnesota Blue <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Minnesota Blue <[email protected]>
Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Fun with fuses
To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 10:40 PM
Everything else seems to work fine. I have been getting an
intermittent tail light indicator on the cluster, but I was working
under the impression that it was symptomatic of the entire instrument
cluster problem. As far as the fuses, it looks like I can pull the
wires our of the fuse plug and insert a new fuse. My only worry is
where those wires lead. Sounds like my only course of action is to
take the headlight off and go from there. I get nervous messing
around with wiring. Still new to motorcycle maintenance. So for the
fuses, A B C D. Is that left to right then?
Thanks!
Brian
On May 29, 8:52 pm, "Creative Residential Designs"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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