Taillight does not lighted
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Taillight does not lighted
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My bike is 1998 883 sportster XL.
Please help me. My taillight does not lighted. The bulb are new, the 4 fuse at my left leg side are ok but the tailight light just does not lighted. My taillight is not the original stock, it has been change. It come with two wire that replace the 2nd & 3rd wire under my seat. Last weekend, I un-plug the wire and remove my rear fender and taillight to change a new mounting bracket for the tailight, after I assembler everything back again, the tailight does not lighted, either the apply the front or rear brake. I also check the connector under my seat, there is not electrical current go upto the connector. What may be the problem I can check again. Please help, thank you.
My bike is 1998 883 sportster XL.
Please help me. My taillight does not lighted. The bulb are new, the 4 fuse at my left leg side are ok but the tailight light just does not lighted. My taillight is not the original stock, it has been change. It come with two wire that replace the 2nd & 3rd wire under my seat. Last weekend, I un-plug the wire and remove my rear fender and taillight to change a new mounting bracket for the tailight, after I assembler everything back again, the tailight does not lighted, either the apply the front or rear brake. I also check the connector under my seat, there is not electrical current go upto the connector. What may be the problem I can check again. Please help, thank you.
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pls help if you know the answer
i switch on my bike this morning, it lighted up..on&off for a while and went off again, could it be the ground problem? my tailight come with 2wire, shall i add on the 3rd earth wire?
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i have a 91 883 and i went with a led tail light and changed my rear fender to a softail like fender and i had same problems i checked wires and added a ground to my tailight cause all it did was ground to the fender and it worked wasnt getting a good ground and if that dont work try your pressure switches
hope you best of luck
shaun
hope you best of luck
shaun
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pressure switches
i have a 91 883 and i went with a led tail light and changed my rear fender to a softail like fender and i had same problems i checked wires and added a ground to my tailight cause all it did was ground to the fender and it worked wasnt getting a good ground and if that dont work try your pressure switches
hope you best of luck
shaun
hope you best of luck
shaun
thanks
jackie
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your pressure switch will have 2 wires running to it is located in your rear brake line usually around by your oil tank it works on pressure when you push your foot brake it gets pressure from the fluid in the line and for your front brake lever it is a switch located up by your lever when you pull in your front brake you can see the little nipple in it and the ony way to test it is to take you kill switch apart and test for power and the back pressure switch you can use a paperclip and jump across thr 2 wires and if it lights up then thats your problem it cost me 10 dollars through drag specielty but what i think you have is a ground problem i would try it first then next check to see if you have power with a test light and if there in no power on it under your seat is some circiut breakers and one of them could be bad
good luck that should put you in the right direction
shaun
good luck that should put you in the right direction
shaun
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