I've made a goof while fitting the final stages of a replacement loom to my 95 1100GS, here's the scenario:
Fitted everything back together on the bike and wired in the front end (instrument panel, lights, horn etc, all work fine) at this point both right a left front indicator flash quickly to indicate that they're wired incorrectly.
The rear light frame piece has badly seized up and all of the lights on it work, so instead of pulling it all to pieces and having to replace a lot of parts, I elect to simply cut the wire leading into the rear light unit and cut the end of the replacement loom off and simply solder the appropriate connections (there are 7 of them, 4 light connection wires, which I presume are rear, brake, left and right indicator), there are also 3 brown earth wires.
During my rather amateur soldering exercise, I seem to have somehow now shorted out the right hand indicator completely (I think I must have done something wrong with the multimeter when the ignition was switched on and ther was voltage to the rear light). I've connected it all up now and it seems that suddenly (even before I finished making the connections correctly) that the right hand indicator (front and rear) has now stopped working, although neither front nor rear bulb is blown. It's almost as if a fuse has blown, but I can't see any fuses that are obviously blown, nor can I find any evidence that there are any such fuses on the for the right hand indicator (although it's entirely possible I've missed it)
The left indicator works fine, but nothing at all from the right, very strange.
Any ideas, tips?
Thanks for any help.
David
Fitted everything back together on the bike and wired in the front end (instrument panel, lights, horn etc, all work fine) at this point both right a left front indicator flash quickly to indicate that they're wired incorrectly.
The rear light frame piece has badly seized up and all of the lights on it work, so instead of pulling it all to pieces and having to replace a lot of parts, I elect to simply cut the wire leading into the rear light unit and cut the end of the replacement loom off and simply solder the appropriate connections (there are 7 of them, 4 light connection wires, which I presume are rear, brake, left and right indicator), there are also 3 brown earth wires.
During my rather amateur soldering exercise, I seem to have somehow now shorted out the right hand indicator completely (I think I must have done something wrong with the multimeter when the ignition was switched on and ther was voltage to the rear light). I've connected it all up now and it seems that suddenly (even before I finished making the connections correctly) that the right hand indicator (front and rear) has now stopped working, although neither front nor rear bulb is blown. It's almost as if a fuse has blown, but I can't see any fuses that are obviously blown, nor can I find any evidence that there are any such fuses on the for the right hand indicator (although it's entirely possible I've missed it)
The left indicator works fine, but nothing at all from the right, very strange.
Any ideas, tips?
Thanks for any help.
David
