check your wireing!
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Western Wisconsin
If you ever bought saddlebags had to relocate your rear turn signals on a softtail or sportster,
you know there is not much room for your fingers between the rear tire and the inner fender.
I'm amazed there is not more problems there.
you know there is not much room for your fingers between the rear tire and the inner fender.
I'm amazed there is not more problems there.
Road Captain
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Phoenix, AZ
Yep, Been there too
My tail light/brake light stopped working. So I checked the fuse. It was blown. Changed the fuse tried it again. POOF, blew a fuse. Ohm checked and I was shorted to ground. Following the harness back I found that the tire wore threw the harness. Lots of bare wires. I patched it up rewrapped it and relocated the harness. All is fine now. Just thought I would share since this sounds like it might not be an isolated case.
Happend shortly after my Dealer replaced my tires. The Mechanic might have bumped the harness in the fender. Just guessing. I didn't take it back to them because it was easy enough for me to fix and just get back to riding.
My tail light/brake light stopped working. So I checked the fuse. It was blown. Changed the fuse tried it again. POOF, blew a fuse. Ohm checked and I was shorted to ground. Following the harness back I found that the tire wore threw the harness. Lots of bare wires. I patched it up rewrapped it and relocated the harness. All is fine now. Just thought I would share since this sounds like it might not be an isolated case.
Happend shortly after my Dealer replaced my tires. The Mechanic might have bumped the harness in the fender. Just guessing. I didn't take it back to them because it was easy enough for me to fix and just get back to riding.
Road Captain
Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Pittsburgh, PA
Hey guys. I decided to do some paint work on my 09classic so today i took off the rear fender and got quite a suprise, the wire harness inside was wore have way through bearing some wires. the combination of a lowering kit and soft shocks was the problem. I only lowered it one hole or 3/4 in. Adjusting the air shocks for me wasn't hard but 2 up with all the junk took time. I was up over 50 lbs. of air just to stop bottoming but the ride was bad.(new progressive shocks should cure the problem). Just a heads up to all.
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Road Master
Joined: Jul 2007
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From: Dover, DE
Hey guys. I decided to do some paint work on my 09classic so today i took off the rear fender and got quite a suprise, the wire harness inside was wore have way through bearing some wires. the combination of a lowering kit and soft shocks was the problem. I only lowered it one hole or 3/4 in. Adjusting the air shocks for me wasn't hard but 2 up with all the junk took time. I was up over 50 lbs. of air just to stop bottoming but the ride was bad.(new progressive shocks should cure the problem). Just a heads up to all.
Funny you say that, I was doing some paint work for a friend the night he brought the parts to my place he said the same thing "glad I pulled the thing a part, found all the wiring around the rear fender had worn thru to bare wire"...might not be a bad thing to check over the non-riding months..
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