I have a 2006 Streetglide that lost the use of all instruments in the dash. No speedometer, tach, voltmeter etc. Turnsignals, brake lights, head lamp are okay. Anybody else have that problem? Sound like just a fuse but could it be a connection since the cluster is all together?

 

Not sure if your 2006 fuseblock is the same as the one on my 2008, but my owner's manual says that fuse #12 (15 amp) serves the instruments. So it sounds like all instruments are protected by that one fuse. Radio, accessory, lamps, starter, etc. all have a different fuse.

 

There's a bunch of contacts in the ignition switch. One of the symptoms of the switch going bad is loss of the gagues. Wiggle the switch and see if they blink on.

 

I saw that reading through the manual. Thanks. may be all that it is but the fuse must have blown for a reas. I ran a CB cable along the backbone of the bike after loosening and lifting the fuel tank. Instruments were fine an then quit working. I ran the CB off batteries so there were no electrical cuts or splices. I think all the wiring is in a harness so it would be tough to bend or break a wire.

 

I blew several fuses for the instruments on my '05 RG and could not find the cause. I talked to a friend at the MoCo and he did some checking for me. What he told me was that there was a known problem where once in a while adjacent pins in a connector in the fairing would short out. He said the fix was to undo the ty-wraps remove any stress to the connectors and re ty-wrap every thing. I did and the problem went away.

 

If you removed the outer fairing to run the antenna cable inside the fairing, you may have moved a portion of one of the harnesses causing a very tight condition causing a crimp or exposed wired that grounded itself causing the short. Or the condition may have existed but only became a problem when the harness was moved for the antenna installation.

Hope you resolve the problem.

 

Didn't string the cable through the fairing but under the fuel tank and up the handlebars. I pulled the tank and there is no way the cable could hit wiring since the harnesses run through a sheath. When I put everything back together and put a new fuse in all the gauges worked fine. For about 50 miles. Then the fuse blew. Had the bike service two days before and noticed moisture in the radio display and some fogging in the gauges. Don't appear to be any bare wires?

 

Its time to start tracing the wires associated with the instruments. There has to be contact to ground ocurring to blow the fuse. Since this is an intermittant short it is probably happening when you turn the handlebars or some other action causing a shift of the wires. Good luck, these gremlins can be hard to track down.

 

Good thinking! It only occurs in the harness for the instrument cluster. Everything else seems fine and the bike runs great. I'm thinking that when I had it serviced the shop washed it and sprayed the connectors. The radio display had water in the face and there was some fogging at the top of all the gauges. After a four hundred mile trip I replaced the fuse and it worked. The bike hasn't been ridden for two days so I'll check it tonight. Maybe just an over-ambitious detailer.