Electrical and other issues...

[Lonewulf666]

Long time no see everybody. I'm in trouble again but luckily i'm not on the road. My right hand turn signal light burned out and was causing the 15A fuse to blow everytime i'd forget and use my turn signal. Before I realized it was the light I was following the wiring looking for bare wire grounding out somewhere. During this process I removed the spark plug wires on the right hand side so that I could get a better look. I had the bike back together but forgot to reconnect the spark plug wires. The bike wouldn't start and I heard this clicking noise coming from the right side. I put the wires back and the bike started up but it was bogging down suddenly and would die if I didn't keep it revved above 1000 rpm. Everytime i would go up a gear and give it gas I could here the clicking noise again and it was still bogging down. Please tell me that this is something stupid that I'm just not thinking about. Thanks. :beg:

 

[joedrum]

well the ticking is possibly spark jumping I guess when you took spark plug wires off you make one go bad ...id say it nothing much....... good time for wires and ends ......good to here from you

 

[slabghost]

agreed check the plug wires again.

 

[Ansimp]

If you do this in the dark you can often see the problems

 

[Lonewulf666]

Okay, thanks everybody. The ticking noise and bogging down went away shortly after changing the spark plugs but not right away. I changed the flasher bulb and still no flash on the right side. The right rear light comes on but the front right doesn't come on at all. I found a connection that was burned up down to the right of the battery. I replaced that, still no flasher on right side. Aside from unwrapping the entire wire harness I've followed the wiring from front to back but haven't found much. If my flasher relay was the problem could the flashers work on the left but not the right or would they both not work? Thanks, you guys are the best.

 

[toytender01]

One side of flasher can fail.

 

[Ansimp]

You need to use a test light on the right front flasher and figure out if you have both positive and negative supply. That way you are only chasing one circuit ( negative or positive) and you can follow through plugs etc until you find the circuit working. This will narrow the search area and the amount of unwrapping( if any) to do. If you know that you have supply up to the bulb holder it just may be it that is faulty :builder:

 

[dan filipi]

Ansimp » Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:58 pm[/url]":3sxt6aex]You need to use a test light on the right front flasher and figure out if you have both positive and negative supply. That way you are only chasing one circuit ( negative or positive) and you can follow through plugs etc until you find the circuit working. This will narrow the search area and the amount of unwrapping( if any) to do. If you know that you have supply up to the bulb holder it just may be it that is faulty :builder:

Some good advise right there.

A loose ground will have ya chasin your tail.
Try a test ground jumper wire to the bulbs ground side. Can keep jumping ground like this back into the connectors til the loose/bad ground connection is found.

 

[Lonewulf666]

I've cleaned and tightened all the grounds that i've followed. Is there anywhere that would tell me where they all are for a 1978 gl1000. Also at the end of my tinkering today there was a connection to the front left of where the airbox is that was super hot. My wiring diagram doesn't even show what it is. it's right behind the junction box behind the left side cover.

 

[backlander]

Can you tell what color the wire is and what it is connected to.