Fibersnake
Banjo Playing PsychoBilly
Just wanted to send a follow up to my issues I had near the end of the day Sunday coming from Rolling Thunder run. As I was leaving the eat place with some others, by Tach lights started to act very strange.
Sometime no lights, other times all over the Fing place. The bike ran fine other than that. Initially not sure of what the problem was, but rode it home hoping and praying that is was just bad sensor or something minor and not an indication of other underlying issues.
On the way home, it kep acting up the whole time, but ran like a champ otherwise with nary a stumble.
After getting home and letting the bike cool down as well as getting some blood back to legs, me and my brother went to trouble shooting.
We pulled the sensor, no debrie found or anything that would indicate problem, pulled the speedometer/tach gage off and found a wire on the tach board that was broken.
Put the brother's ET experience and my patients to use, and resolder the wire back into tach board. Put back together and all was good.
Rode the bike the next day for about 220 miles with never another problem. Glad is was something easy and we were able to fix it and save a few bucks at the same time.
If any others have a similar problem and everything runs fine, keep in mind those little ass stiff wires going into Tach board, if broken and you soldering skills and tools allow, try to fix, worse case is you screw up board and will have to replace anyway, best case you fix it and save buying a new board.
Sometime no lights, other times all over the Fing place. The bike ran fine other than that. Initially not sure of what the problem was, but rode it home hoping and praying that is was just bad sensor or something minor and not an indication of other underlying issues.
On the way home, it kep acting up the whole time, but ran like a champ otherwise with nary a stumble.
After getting home and letting the bike cool down as well as getting some blood back to legs, me and my brother went to trouble shooting.
We pulled the sensor, no debrie found or anything that would indicate problem, pulled the speedometer/tach gage off and found a wire on the tach board that was broken.
Put the brother's ET experience and my patients to use, and resolder the wire back into tach board. Put back together and all was good.
Rode the bike the next day for about 220 miles with never another problem. Glad is was something easy and we were able to fix it and save a few bucks at the same time.
If any others have a similar problem and everything runs fine, keep in mind those little ass stiff wires going into Tach board, if broken and you soldering skills and tools allow, try to fix, worse case is you screw up board and will have to replace anyway, best case you fix it and save buying a new board.
