Mickeetwo
Guru
Well after 6 years and about 24,000 miles the dog left me stranded on the side of the rode. I don't ride it around town much and most of our day rides are in the 300 to 400 mile range. Had a trip planned to northern Arkansas this week and it laid down on me. Made it just outside of Hot Springs AR and had to call my daughter to get the trailer and come and get me. I knew she would come and get her daddy 
She was there in a couple of hours.
Here's how it started.....left Texarkana and made it about 35 miles and was running about 70 and it just shut off. Like you turned the key off. No headlight or running lights. Still had the nuetral light and oil light. Cycled the key and still no lights or running lights or comp releases or starter, just dead. I have a PDM kit.....so I know its not the EHC
Pull the seat and start checking the wires. Find a loose ground wire and fix it, but nothing. (by the way I think the loose wire was the ground for my RPM, some times it worked and sometimes it didn't) Pull the fuse block cover and start checking fuses and find F7 blown. F7 is the running and brake lights (5amp). Pull the horn fuse and replace F7. All is good fires right up and eerything works.
Ride another 135 miles and it dies again. Check fuses and F7 is blown again. I'm thinking if it just does it every 135 miles. I'll just keep changing fuses and ride on. This time I only go about 200 yards and it blows again. There a store about 100 yards away, so replace it again and go about 50 yards this time. Each time it blows I loose running lights, brake lights, head light, comp releases, and starter. Everything else works...nuetral light, oil light, rpm, and horn. Checked everything and gave up and called my daugher.
When I would replace the fuse everything would work and I would shake pull and move everything on the bike and nothing would happen. Crank it up and each time the run time was shorter and shorter until it got were it would start and blow the fuse. I'm thinking the HCI is bad on it. F7 is the running lights and brake. R2 is the relay for the starter solenoid, headlight and power. and F10 is for comp release. Got me stumped and since I was close to Little Rock I just dropped it off at Rodneys.
On a side note......My Metzler tire is wore out. Only got 4500 miles out of it. Really hate that. I really like the Metzler. I told Rodney to put another Metzler on. I'll try them one more time. I'm kind of hard on tires. But I was getting 7000 out of the Avon Venom. The Cobra's wouldn't last a weekend. A 1000 miles is the most I got out of them before the tread splice would split. Went through 3 and changed to Metzler.
I can't complain I've made a lot of trips on the dog and this is the first time it let me down.
She was there in a couple of hours. Here's how it started.....left Texarkana and made it about 35 miles and was running about 70 and it just shut off. Like you turned the key off. No headlight or running lights. Still had the nuetral light and oil light. Cycled the key and still no lights or running lights or comp releases or starter, just dead. I have a PDM kit.....so I know its not the EHC
Pull the seat and start checking the wires. Find a loose ground wire and fix it, but nothing. (by the way I think the loose wire was the ground for my RPM, some times it worked and sometimes it didn't) Pull the fuse block cover and start checking fuses and find F7 blown. F7 is the running and brake lights (5amp). Pull the horn fuse and replace F7. All is good fires right up and eerything works.
Ride another 135 miles and it dies again. Check fuses and F7 is blown again. I'm thinking if it just does it every 135 miles. I'll just keep changing fuses and ride on
. This time I only go about 200 yards and it blows again. There a store about 100 yards away, so replace it again and go about 50 yards this time. Each time it blows I loose running lights, brake lights, head light, comp releases, and starter. Everything else works...nuetral light, oil light, rpm, and horn. Checked everything and gave up and called my daugher. When I would replace the fuse everything would work and I would shake pull and move everything on the bike and nothing would happen. Crank it up and each time the run time was shorter and shorter until it got were it would start and blow the fuse. I'm thinking the HCI is bad on it. F7 is the running lights and brake. R2 is the relay for the starter solenoid, headlight and power. and F10 is for comp release. Got me stumped and since I was close to Little Rock I just dropped it off at Rodneys.
On a side note......My Metzler tire is wore out. Only got 4500 miles out of it. Really hate that. I really like the Metzler. I told Rodney to put another Metzler on. I'll try them one more time. I'm kind of hard on tires. But I was getting 7000 out of the Avon Venom. The Cobra's wouldn't last a weekend. A 1000 miles is the most I got out of them before the tread splice would split. Went through 3 and changed to Metzler.
I can't complain I've made a lot of trips on the dog and this is the first time it let me down.
