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Ok so its my first day here, and I'm already asking questions, sorry guys.
Picked up this 92 Kat 1100 yesterday, I knew it had a couple small problems, and a rattle can paint job, but its a solid bike with 22000 on it.
Long story short, it was laid down on the right side, and the right turn signals were tore off. Instead of finding stockers to replace them the guy replaced them with cheap After market stick ons and tried to rewire them. He played with the turn signal wires front and back, and he played with the brake / tail light wire.
Since putting on the new turn signals the brake light doesn't work, but the tail light does. The turn signal light up but do not flash.
I took the seat off, undid his nightmare of electrical work, cleaned things up best I could, still no brake light, and the bulb is good. So now I start thinking maybe its the switch on the brakes? Naw both wouldn't go bad at once would they? Upon further investigation I found that the right front fuse in the fuse box was blown. I turned the key to off, put the new 10 amp fuse in, turned the key on, and before I even hit the brake to check the light the fuse popped. Being the quick learner I am, I repeated this procedure three more times DUH!!!
Question is does anyone here have a clue as to what would make that fuse blow? Is it supposed to be a 10 amp, or is supposed to be a bigger one? I have checked every place on the harness that has wires outside the covering, nothing is grounded, or bare.
I'm hoping someone is gonna say he man,this is typical, just change out this or that.
Picked up this 92 Kat 1100 yesterday, I knew it had a couple small problems, and a rattle can paint job, but its a solid bike with 22000 on it.
Long story short, it was laid down on the right side, and the right turn signals were tore off. Instead of finding stockers to replace them the guy replaced them with cheap After market stick ons and tried to rewire them. He played with the turn signal wires front and back, and he played with the brake / tail light wire.
Since putting on the new turn signals the brake light doesn't work, but the tail light does. The turn signal light up but do not flash.
I took the seat off, undid his nightmare of electrical work, cleaned things up best I could, still no brake light, and the bulb is good. So now I start thinking maybe its the switch on the brakes? Naw both wouldn't go bad at once would they? Upon further investigation I found that the right front fuse in the fuse box was blown. I turned the key to off, put the new 10 amp fuse in, turned the key on, and before I even hit the brake to check the light the fuse popped. Being the quick learner I am, I repeated this procedure three more times DUH!!!
Question is does anyone here have a clue as to what would make that fuse blow? Is it supposed to be a 10 amp, or is supposed to be a bigger one? I have checked every place on the harness that has wires outside the covering, nothing is grounded, or bare.
I'm hoping someone is gonna say he man,this is typical, just change out this or that.
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