2005 'S' died while riding - no voltage - what to check ?

Ok....sorted...well sort of.

I found the culprit, but why a smaller fuse didn't blow 1st I have no idea.

It was the left parking light. Fitted with shonky cheapo LED bulbs. I had replaced one the morning I broke down.
When examined, the bulb had kinda pulled itself apart and was obviously causing a short internally or something.

Anyway.......the earth wire had turned itself into a bar heater and melted through into the +ve causing a short.
So last night I had to strip out about 10 inches of wiring for replacement. You can see in the photo that the burning of the earth wire goes way past the plug and into the loom. Thankfully it didn't melt through any other wires before the plug, only the end bit is really gubbed.

I cut the wires out, isolated the ends, plopped a 30amp fuse in and the thing fired up. I let it sit for 10 minutes to see if anything else went wonky.

As for the tacho being at 6000rpm.......when I turned on the ignition, the needle swept way round, did a funky chicken dance and wound back round to 0. Looks like the ECU did a reset or something.

I took the rear fairing off to get to the R/R to examine/test that.
Yes......on my bike it wasn't there. It's attached to the frame on the right side near the front...about inline with the front throttle body.
It tested out fine, with all 6 non zero readings being almost identical give or take a difference of 2 or 3 between them.

The bike now looks like a Transformer halfway through transforming !!

Oh....and I'm going back to normal yellow looking T10 bulbs, which is a shame as I have 5400K super white HID's fitted which means I can actually see stuff when it's dark !!

[shiftin_gear98]

Glad you found it.