Thursday, December 23, 2010

Fixing the Harley

I've shortened the headlight mount bringing it in closer to the forks and mounted the speedo off to the side. Chasing the wiring fault has been an absolute saga with over 20 solid hours into finding the problem and fixing it. After a lot of work I narrowed the all flashing indicators and no brake light problems to the rear of the bike. I spent a while chasing a bad earth only to work out it was a complete short on the back of the bike. Sounds easy to take out the wires in the fender and sort the problem? Unfortunately no..the wires had shorted and fused their insulation together into a solid plug and it wouldn't budge even with a coat hanger rammed in there. I had to grind out the tube the wires run in just to get it out of there...and then re-wire the rear end.
Anyway, it's fixed now and I have indicators that behave themselves and brake lights that work.

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