Post by Nacho on Jan 18, 2006 17:13:23 GMT 1
Hi there friends.
I am just experiencing some kind of problem with my Ignition Fuse.
Last Saturday I went to wash the bike to have it clean and shiny for a bike meeting with all the Spanish Venture Club members.
I usually wash the bike in one of those places where you do it your self with one of those preassure machines, specially if I am in a hurry and that was the case on Saturday.
Everything went well, and after the bike clean, I drove normally about ten more miles to where the rest of the members were.
Once we were there, I headed the group to the place where were gonna have luch, but right one mile after we started to drive, my ignition fuse went broken. I told the friends to keep driving behind one of the guys who knew where the restaurant was and told them that I would be there a little bit later.
Soon I found the broken fuse in the left side cover under the seat and went normally again to meet the friends (catched them up only two miles farder).
Restaurant was 5 more miles away and after the meal I even spent the evening with some othe friends messing around with bikes (about 20 more miles in the whole day).
Today, 3 days later, I started the bike to come to work and everything was fine until I got close to my working place. Only 10 miles from home and having the bike resting for 3 days, the same fuse goes broken again.
I am in the middle of no where, 5 miles away from my office and I don't have more spare fuses (at least inside that lefyt cover), so I decide to take off the fuse for the fan wich is also 15A and put it in place for the ignition.
For a moment I think I am doing a dangerous thing by driving with out fan, but then I think: what a heck, my fan never works in my bike and we are close to 0º Celsius degrees, so I don't think I am gonna need the fan.
Fuse in place and bike running ago (without fan, but anyway).
All this happened 10 minutes ago and once here, I got new fuses from the company pick-up. This means that I can get back home because I have enough spare fuses now, but what worries me is that something must be wrong.
No new installations have been done in the bike in the last months and I have not changed anything. The onloy think that I can think of is that some water has got into somewhere.
But, after 3 days resting, shouldn't it have dried already. Temperatures are low and that does not help to dry things up, but I don't know what else can be wrong.
Any help or ideas what to do next? Should I wait a little bit more or start searching for a real electrical problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards from Spain,
Nacho.
I am just experiencing some kind of problem with my Ignition Fuse.
Last Saturday I went to wash the bike to have it clean and shiny for a bike meeting with all the Spanish Venture Club members.
I usually wash the bike in one of those places where you do it your self with one of those preassure machines, specially if I am in a hurry and that was the case on Saturday.
Everything went well, and after the bike clean, I drove normally about ten more miles to where the rest of the members were.
Once we were there, I headed the group to the place where were gonna have luch, but right one mile after we started to drive, my ignition fuse went broken. I told the friends to keep driving behind one of the guys who knew where the restaurant was and told them that I would be there a little bit later.
Soon I found the broken fuse in the left side cover under the seat and went normally again to meet the friends (catched them up only two miles farder).
Restaurant was 5 more miles away and after the meal I even spent the evening with some othe friends messing around with bikes (about 20 more miles in the whole day).
Today, 3 days later, I started the bike to come to work and everything was fine until I got close to my working place. Only 10 miles from home and having the bike resting for 3 days, the same fuse goes broken again.
I am in the middle of no where, 5 miles away from my office and I don't have more spare fuses (at least inside that lefyt cover), so I decide to take off the fuse for the fan wich is also 15A and put it in place for the ignition.
For a moment I think I am doing a dangerous thing by driving with out fan, but then I think: what a heck, my fan never works in my bike and we are close to 0º Celsius degrees, so I don't think I am gonna need the fan.
Fuse in place and bike running ago (without fan, but anyway).
All this happened 10 minutes ago and once here, I got new fuses from the company pick-up. This means that I can get back home because I have enough spare fuses now, but what worries me is that something must be wrong.
No new installations have been done in the bike in the last months and I have not changed anything. The onloy think that I can think of is that some water has got into somewhere.
But, after 3 days resting, shouldn't it have dried already. Temperatures are low and that does not help to dry things up, but I don't know what else can be wrong.
Any help or ideas what to do next? Should I wait a little bit more or start searching for a real electrical problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards from Spain,
Nacho.
Have you looked under the seat, if you have a back rest, look under the rear part of the seat where the wires run from front to back...check to see if the backrest has rubbed a wire ...if it has, it could short there...you have a short somewhere, it will take a little checking to see where it could be...just a bad solder or poor tape job from long ago can cause this!!!!!