blinker woes...

Lately, I have rebuilt my gearbox. I've added a breather modification that cured all my oil leaks. I've tightened up my bike's handling with the combination of the kegler swingarm modification and Jim comstock's headsteady.... Wow, my bike is running great and handling really well lately.... but we all know that the norton gremlins never give up easily.

In the past, I've had corroded lucas directional switch contacts before and cleaned them up to restore my directional function. It didn't work this time. I tried substituting a new flasher module, Nope. I changed both bulbs, Nada. I wiggled the harness and tweaked a ground or two, No Go. I've opened the headlight to see if a wire came loose in there... nothing... I know it's just a matter of tracing wires and testing everything for continuity to find the issue,....

....... but after all the mechanical work I've done lately, I've really had some great rides. I get off the bike without any oil on me... yes, none! I can't believe it myself. My bike doesn't leave a drip when I park it somewhere. It looks fair, runs great, and is handling really well. I'm actually getting used to riding it around instead of getting dirty working on it... but I guess I have to find the time to test my directional flasher issue and sort out some electrical gremlins....

Lucas,... You bastard!!!!

Who needs blinkers :roll:

LOL on the rittual initations that covers my own learning curveballs. On more than one occassion no results anywhere, so nothing to loose but my bad mood, WHACK-ed the front signals and dam it worked fine and did so out and about till shoe eves got to em again over night. I knew what the problem was but did not want to deal with another tedious crumbling complex, the chrome plastic mounts and stem earth return path. Eventually routed a wire back into shell to earth by a screw like all the other earths in that arena. The signals are too vunerable to my crashes so was very pleased Trixie Combat had none and I know my hand language is being or other obvious indicators of my next intensions. Finally on Peel still thinking blinkers mattered, she got early kit of bulbsthatlastforever and pretty much true as worked through a few crashes that busted out some LED, riped off some tiny wire and crached the base board, but patched up worked great agan w/o notice ot the missed LEDs here and there. Sold off btlf to fella still happy with it,. I have left over stems and lens but not very new and Wes Cdo has none so will trash em.. ahhhh.

Do they not light up at all, or do they light up but not flash?

Ian

I've come to beleive after many years of guffawing at Lucas, that most all the problems were caused by the mediocre quality cycle parts, and mostly the fractured female bullet connectors. The Lucas parts seem on par with other electric parts of the day.

They aren't lighting at all. I pulled out the test meter and did a quick check hoping for an easy fix, but it wasn't the switch or the flasher, so that means I have to undo the rear tail light housing and unwrap the wire harness back there to trace the wires. My bike didn't have flashers originally. I added them to the rear of the bike, so the dopes driving cars wouldn't kill me from behind...

My bike doesn't legally require them either since they weren't required in it's year of production. I like having rear facing flashers when I am changing lanes on the hiway.

hopefully it won't rain today when I am troubleshooting.

It turns out chromed plastic is a crappy ground. I added 2 new ground wires from the fixture sockets to the frame... and all is well in nortonville again...

o0norton0o said:

It turns out chromed plastic is a crappy ground. I added 2 new ground wires from the fixture sockets to the frame... and all is well in nortonville again...

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Crappy grounds are probably the cause of 75% of all electrical problems.

Slick