Afraid to ride in the dark...
04-01-2015 | 07:34 AM
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Squid
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Afraid to ride in the dark...
My brake light works fine but the tail light doesn't turn on when I start up the bike. I replaced the wiring harness to resolve some other issues hoping it would also fix the taillight but to no avail.
Can anyone tell me what I should be looking at to get this fixed?
Can anyone tell me what I should be looking at to get this fixed?
04-01-2015 | 12:12 PM
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You should replace the bulbs, on filament can burn out leaving the other one.
Look on here for the wiring diagram to find what wire colors to test. There is a bundled of bullet connectors in the tail. Your tail lights are likely unplugged if the bulbs are fine.
Look on here for the wiring diagram to find what wire colors to test. There is a bundled of bullet connectors in the tail. Your tail lights are likely unplugged if the bulbs are fine.
04-01-2015 | 02:50 PM
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We had a customer that rolled in on a Triumph. He said "look at this" and he pulled the brake lever and the headlight came on. He said "I know this is not possible. I looked at the schematic and they two circuits are separate." My boss told hin to go up front and buy a tail light bulb and that we would put it in for him. The trouble was, the tail light filament broke, since it is the lightest of the two filaments, and it fell down onto the brake light filament. When the brake switch was engaged the circuit sent power through the lighting circuit to the headlight.
04-02-2015 | 01:06 PM
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I know. Blink, and you could miss it. This kind of attention to detail is the filament that runs through everything I do. It gives great illumination to...eh, I'm done. I'm getting burned out on this.
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05-21-2015 | 08:32 PM
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Figured I'd finally update this thread with what I ended up doing with the taillight. I bought one of those ebay led taillights. I just installed a new wiring harness and there was no way I was going to cut it up. I sawed off the piece the bulb goes into and wired it to the new taillight so I could just click it in. Also got some male thingys to wire the turn signals to. It's not as pretty as stock but it's exactly what I wanted to do.
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