OK, some of you might remember I did a lot of work to Bills '08 over the winter. This included routing the handlebar wiring thru the bars and adding new turn signals. Bill already had a turn-signal cancelling box on the bike, installed by someone else.
I put on all four new turn signals and they functioned perfectly, as did all the other electrical items on the bike. We really didn't like the Rivco mounts Bill chose because they had to be flipped around and mounted from the front due to clearance issues with his crash bar. Because of this, I wired each front turn signal using quick disconnects (male/female plugs) inside the headlight bucket.
Bill ordered new British Customs signal mounts. But, they didn't work with the new signals which had the wires running thru the post. It took a little head scratching to figure a way to mount these signals, but I figured out and excecuted what I thought was a pretty neat install.
Bill lives 2 hours away, so I had taped up the turn signal plug-ins until the new signals arrived and he rode home.
A few weeks later, he returned to put on the new signals, which I thought would take maybe 30 minutes.
When I plugged in the new signals, activating the left side switch made three work at the same time and nothing from the front left. Activating the left signals won't activate the rear and I only get a feeble glow from the front left. We unplug the signal cancelling box and it pretty much does the same thing.
Last night, I wired back in via jumpers the factory signals with the same result, with our without the signal cancelling box in the system.
I checked the signal switch (which gets gutted to allow the cancelling box to work) and the wires to it are fine.
Something is causing a short but for the life of me, I can't figure out where or why.
All I did was unplug two working signals from the headlight bucket, than plug them back in. No other changes were made to the wiring.
Any suggestions? Pix of the new signal mount below, which looks cool, but doesn't work....
