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1975 850T electric mistery
Woodrow:
So I have a 850 , great bike , starts great , stops great , does everything. BUT the other week i turn the key,, nothing,.(no lights on dash) So ok , roll out another bike and go to work, Come back from town , check the battery , 12.5 volts . WOW OK . turn the key , push the button , fires right up.
So I blamed myself , i thought I had turned the key too far and not turned it enouf to start . so great , I rode it the rest of the week. And it did it agan.. no matter what it wont crank , battery is 12v . . Turn the key on and off and have a spark at plug. so I start looking it over a day or so later .AND,, lights oil light , netural light. and cranks and starts.
This bike has a 3 year old wire harnes from G Bender, all the wires look great . Today I wiggled and unpluged and repluged all the wires i could .
I put the tank on and ran it up and down my road , not as far as I would like to push this thing.
Would be nice to have someone follow me around with a trailer. Good running bike (when it runs ) Woodrow .
Chuck in Indiana:
Sounds like a good time to disassemble the ignition switch, clean, wire brush the contacts, apply fresh vaseline. Even if that isn't it, most likely it's due.
guzzisteve:
I second that motion. Good idea unless replaced with harness.
Antietam Classic Cycle:
Have you checked the charging voltage? Battery resting voltage should be a bit higher than 12.5.
cliffrod:
I’ll jump in and ask if the fuse box was replaced along with the new wiring harness. Hidden corrosion in my V7 Sport’s original fuse box confounded us for quite a while after I replaced everything wiring harness-related except that because it looked fine. Once fixed, all was good.
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