Bike Died....Breaker Question.

[ctandc]

Took the wife out with me just for a run around the block. Bike ran fine. 15 minutes later, fired up to go look at the 01 750 parts bike, ran fine. Pulling out of my street, hit 2 gear...bike cuts off. Thought I hit the kill switch...nope. No indicator lights, headlights, STONE dead. Walk it to the house (luckily a block or two away).

Get out the meter....check the battery..almost 13V, good to go. Check the wiring diagram, trace to the main breaker on the front of the battery box (CRAPPY place to get to). As soon as I pop it out of the little mount on the battery box, the headlights come on, indicators light up....Just bumping it made it work.

Cleaned the connections, shot some dielectric grease on it, put it back together, works fine, bike starts right up.

So? Replace? Get a spare? What?

Also, there is a factory wire coming off the feed that goes AFTER the it goes through the breaker...12 volts...where does it plug to?


Thanks

[BarMatt80]

you might have solved your issue atleast with the breaker. Could have a short elsewhere. Also any open leads tape them up or heat shrink them well.

[ctandc]

Well the wire that branches off the breaker appears to be factory (female sleeved bullet connector just like factory turn signal light connections etc).

It's back together and fine now, so we'll see.

Is Suzuki the only place to order the breaker?

I may order a spare.

[BarMatt80]

yes suzuki would be the only company that has a direct replacement. but you can obviously buy from any retailer that sells suzuki parts. However I assume you could retrofit some car circuit breaker into it. Finding the specs on the breaker might be harder than wanting to mess with it, so going oem might be best.

[Steveb]

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if all the breakers where the same...30A says the factory manual.

[The CyberPoet]

There are tons of aftermarket 12.2-14.9 volt range 30 amp breakers out there, but I'm not familiar with the pre-98 form-factor enough to know what replacements will fit (Q - is it bolted down to something, or does it just "hang" there?).

Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet

[BarMatt80]

the circuit breaker slides over a tab on the battery box, just like the fuses do if i remember right.

[ctandc]

the circuit breaker slides over a tab on the battery box, just like the fuses do if i remember right.

Yup, just hangs on a metal tab on the battery box

[ctandc]

Well this would be the cause........

Of the breaker kicking off......



So before I button up the 750 swap, I'll be going through the entire harness to check it's condition..

[BarMatt80]

good thing you found it. I finally one warm winter day, cut all the old crap off the stock wires and retaped and shrink wrapped about 98% of the whole harness. I found it to be a pain, but I did like knowing everything checked out and i had better chances in the rain. just use a quality tape! good luck!

[steves]

Last summer when I thought I had a wiring harness problem on the kat... we unwrapped and checked the entire harness.

It ended up being a loose connection to the battery....

But we used some 3M stretch tape stuff to re wrap all the wires. We also wrapped the cali connectors back into the harness to get them out of the way....

Luckily my friend walter is an electrical guru.