Hopefully this is nothing major....I have no neutral green light. I can handle a bulb replacement, however, I noticed a "click click" sound about every 5 second coming from inside the console before I start the bike. This sound also occurs with it in first gear without the bike running.."click click" about every 5 seconds. What concerns me is I've never heard the sound before and it started at the same time as my neutral light going out. This all started right after I gave her a gentle washing...same way I always have. I'm pretty sure the neutral light was on when I backed her out of the garage. Any thoughts or concerns I should have? Thanks

 

What bike is this? Year/model?

SWAG: Click - click is likely a breaker tripping and resetting. You have a short.

 

Wow, I woulda thought you'd be in surgery right now Dr. Hess. Thanks for the quick reply. 95 FLSTN Heritage Nostalgia. Rode her in to work.....didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. But still no light and she's making the click click sound?

 

Don't do too much doctorin' these days. It ain't all it's cracked up to be. Databases buys me Harley parts.

Sticking with my SWAG.

 

So anyhow, I need some kind of prescription? How do I trouble shoot a short.... what I'm describing? Am I gonna damage anything by riding until I can get into it?

 

I'm nowhere near being a mechanic, and electric issues are one thing I've definately never messed with. But is it possibly something simple that I could get walked through?

 

Yeah, you don't want to ride that until you fix it. Bad things can happen. Pull apart wherever the breakers are, turn the power on and find which breaker is tripping out (making the noise). Then start tracking that circuit down. Follow the wires coming off the breaker, look at schematics, look for something touching metal, broken insulation, etc. It if is not intermittent, it shouldn't be that bad to track down. Put an ohm meter on the shorted wire at the breaker (power off) and start disconnecting things until the meter doesn't show the short anymore.

 

This is exactly why you need a second bike.

 

Ditto Dr. Hess .
The clicking sound you hear is a breaker relay doing what its supposed to do to prevent a melt down in your electrical system.
You probably washed the bike with a high pres. hose and now the water has been forced into an electrical component that dosent like water.
If your lucky , the bike will dry out in a few days , if not , you will have to track down the problem like Dr. Hess has described.

 

Gotta ride it home after work tonight...6 miles. Hope I don't create a bigger problem for myself. I'm hoping she will have healed herself by the time I leave.....had to have been the water or the 200mph leaf blower I use to dry her off...but I've always washed my bikes this way w/o incident.