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Dashboard and high lights

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by Billed, Sep 26, 2012.

  1. Billed

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    Hi everyone, I've been reading around and can't find anyone with the exact same problem I've been having:

    My headlights work, but the highs and the dashboard lights won't come on. They turned on briefly the other night while riding and then turned right back of after 10 seconds or so. Since I ride quite a bit at night it'd be nice to know what speed I'm going at :S. Any thoughts on how I could get them to work?

    Maxim 650 '82.
     
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    When I had problems like that the only solution was re-wiring (that is, modernizing) the fuse box. Also, wouldn't hurt to pull all your wiring connectors apart and clean them with electronics cleaner. This is OLD wiring.
     
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    Alright, sounds like more money out of the wallet 8). Thanks for the heads up!
     
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    All your wiring pretty much runs into and out of the headlight bucket at some point. There's a number of connectors in there. I'd take the headlight out and pull them all apart and contact cleaner or WD-40 em, see if that gets you anywhere...
     
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    Headlight and instrument lights are on the same circuit, this particular problem isn't fusebox-related. (Which is not to say that the original fusebox isn't a pure POS.)

    Jeff is right; it all meets up in the headlight bucket and you've got a loose wire (likely a ground) or bad connection somewhere.
     
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    Oh, yeah, I totally agree. The headlight bucket is what I was really talking about when I said "clean the connectors" before, I just didn't make it very clear.

    When this happened to me I lost both headlights (high and low) and the instrument lights, now that I think about it. I never did find the exact problem, but I did so much re-wiring and upgrading that it fixed itself. Obviously that glass fuse box has to go, regardless.

    (all this stuff we're saying is assuming he even has fuses. I've seen many bikes on here where crazy PO's just eliminated them)
     
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