2 Questions

[Fishbein]

1. Has anyone ever had their turn signals go out on them during a turn? I have had this happen 2 or 3 times when I was in an inclined ramp (neither signal will turn on); after exiting the ramp the signals go back to normal functioning.

2. Just went on about a 100 mile ride today with a short break in the middle, and I came home and hooked her up to my Battery Tender Plus, more out of habit than anything else. Normally, it would have shown the batter at about 80% or higher right away and it would have gotten to a full charge pretty quickly. Instead, it stayed on 80% or higher for hours and has not yet reached full charge. Strange no?

Fish

 

[gR3yWolf]

No on both accounts...sorry.

 

[Fishbein]

No on both accounts...sorry.

Hey, grey wolf, thanks for the effort!

 

[TurboFan]

Turn signals sound mechanical. Are your bars stock? Do you have risers? I have never had the problem, so I am just thinking out loud. And I don't use a battery tender, but I have to wonder how old the battery is? Seems like we rarely get more than two years out these batteries, and I am a big believer in just changing it out at two years. Good luck with the turn signal thing.

 

[Blastedbones]

3 years out of my battery & still going strong. Sounds like some weak electrical connection on the turn signals tho. Tried putting the indicator on & tugging around at the wiring to see if it is sound?

 

[owl]

Sounds like a loose connection in the wiring to me, or a stretched wire.

Risers? Different bars?

And my battery is 5 years old an still going strong.

 

[Fishbein]

Thanks for the tips dudes. I have to check the wires. As for the bars they are stock and i do have the rivco risers and u can see shes a bagger, not that it should make a diff. The turn signal thing happened a year or more ago too but then didnt happen again for a long time. My sense is that the signals are becoming inoperable due to the angle of the bike-an equilibrium thing-it has inly happened on ramps and inly when theres a good incline oe decline-bizarre.

 

[Fishbein]

Oh yeah, and the battery as well as the bike R about 1.5 yrs old with about 8,500 miles on her.

 

[REGULATOR]

maybe your turn signal fluid is low and sloshing around?

:lol: :lol:

seriously though, Id check the battery cables first, then the fuse and relay for the flashers, make sure all is tight, then check the wires and mounts to the turns signals, and the mounts themselves, could be a bad ground or a loose bulb even?

how hard of a turn are you talkign here? how much bank?

maybe jack up the bike and turn the bars to see if you can duplicate if the angle was not too much, if its only on extreme leans, then youd have a harder tiem duplicating, bike is kinda heavy to try and lean to one side or the other without a strap.

 

[-hopper]

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