rballew wrote:
Jonathan, the speedo,fuel gauge, netrual light comes back on a few mins after i release the break. but, the speedo and fuel guage is way off. example: i had about 1 gallon of fuel, gas gauge said tank was full. going about 45/50 mph speedo read 70-110 mph a few times it maxed out too. both finally come back in 15/20 mins to normal speed & fuel. but, as soon as i apply the brake, turn signal, or hit the horn. everything cycels again to being wayyy off.
Is this only while you're moving?

Have you done any work on anything electrical recently (I'm thinking specifically the brake light)?

If the answer is yes and you've done work on some wiring, here's my guess. There's a wire swapped, and when you apply either brake, instead of giving power, you're creating a ground. Since this only happens when you apply the brakes, and it's either brake, not just one, it seems like the point of commonality is the brake light itself.

Do your turn signals work?

If the answer is no, and you haven't moved any wiring, then I believe you have a bad (stuck) relay, which similar to what I posted above is creating a ground by remaining open. As you ride, vibration returns the relay to it's resting state, which causes everything to reset.

I would check to make sure that you are getting a good ground. Maybe after the new paint a srew isnt touching bare metal.Try running a ground straight back to battery from brake lights with out the "factory" ground and see what happens.

I would like to add to this thread.

I have an '04 R* that as of this week keeps popping the Signal Fuse when I pull the brake lever. I have removed the tank and inspected all of the wiring that I can and can see no visible damage or anything that is too obvious. I haven't made any changes to the bike since late last spring when I replaced the head lamp.

When the fuse blows I lose the speedo and odometer cluster. The bike still runs but I just can't tell how fast I am going.

If I find anything that might help I will pass it on. As well as if anyone has a suggestion I will gladly listen.

Thanks Guys


David

Idaho_Rider wrote:
I would like to add to this thread.

I have an '04 R* that as of this week keeps popping the Signal Fuse when I pull the brake lever. I have removed the tank and inspected all of the wiring that I can and can see no visible damage or anything that is too obvious. I haven't made any changes to the bike since late last spring when I replaced the head lamp.

When the fuse blows I lose the speedo and odometer cluster. The bike still runs but I just can't tell how fast I am going.

If I find anything that might help I will pass it on. As well as if anyone has a suggestion I will gladly listen.

Thanks Guys


David
There is a bundle of wires under your license plate start there could be one of your brake light wires got rubbed through and hitting metal. Make sure you look real close doesn't take but a mircoscopic cut to get you a dead short. Like they dont ask how I know

So, Is there a happy ending to this story? Has the problem been squashed? And What was it?
Ken.

After checking everything I can Imagine I gave up and decided I was going to have to take mine to the shop. I've been waiting for a month now afraid of what the cost was going to be for someone to run down and repair this thing. Yesterday I'm sitting here playing over and over how things went down, everything working until I hit the brakes then everything shutting down only to return to working order later. Eventually everything quit working at all and that is when I decided to try and find a fix myself. Because things were working on and off It had to be a short, well like I said I tried cleaning every connection and checking every wire and could not get anything to work. So now I'm thinking it WAS working sometimes so maybe then it was a short and now it never works so maybe the short blew out a fuse and YEP fuse was blown, replaced the fuse and everything works perfectly! Seems all the things I was trying was with a broken fuse so at some point I must have found and repaired the problem without even knowing it.

HUH??

I'm confused here:
rballew started this thread
damaterman recently asked "Is there a happy ending to this story? Has the problem been squashed? And What was it?"
Bonzaiiiand he responded

I thought damaterman was asking the original poster "rballew"?
or am I missing something here? Certainly not going to go back 3 pages of posts to see where.

rballew started the thread and I "bonzaii" posted on the very next post that I was having the exact same issues. My last post was merely stating my results for the same issue, I apologize If I confused or upset anyone and will refrain from posting further in this thread

certainly the speed sensor will affect the speedo, and it will affect intermittently too. It also did play games with the fuel gauge, at least when I had the issue. How it might affect the other electricals, that I'm not sure on. The turn signals do go thru the speedo, but the braking and horn do not. I was fortunate that my dealer had a used speedo laying around so he lent it to me for a week to see if the issue was the speedo, but still a no go, so speed sensor was replaced and haven;t had an issue in 135k miles since.

sorry, i haven't posted to the thread w/ the resolution. I had back surgery 2 weeks ago and just haven't felt like logging on lately.yes, there's a happy ending. Rev found the problem.the problem all along was a bad fuse. visually, the fuse was fine was , not burnt or broken. simply no continuity. I had my bike, relays, diodes, ecu & wiring harness pulled apart over something as simple as a defective fuse. on a positive note. I now have one heck of a wiring education.