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  • Lighting woes

    I have a '79 XS 1100 Special that I have recently started having some real issues with. First was the tach deal, which I have corrected by peeling off the face, lubing the snot out of the drive, cleaning the board around it, and POOF it started working better than when I bought the bike last year.

    Second, I noticed the I now have no power to the headlight. I have read through the posts under the repair section and am not sure if I want to jury rig the wiring and remove the reserve lighting unit altogether because although some may believe it is a rather useless piece of engineering, I don't think that the engineers put it there for no reason either.

    Third, it seems that my right turn signal stopped working, well rather it only partially works. It comes on, but doesn't shut off so I need to manually turn it on and off to give it the appearance of functionality. Not sure if this is a bulb issue or not, haven't really had the time to investigate it.

    Any help or thoughts about this would be greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    You could temporarily remove the RLU and if it turns out to be the prob, get a different one...

    Do the turn signals flash normally and just not cancel? If so, it could be the tilt sensor thing-a-na-bob....inside the speedo housing....looks like you may need to do the same job on your speedo as your tach, eh?
    1979 XS11F Standard - Maya - 1196cc (out of order)
    1978 XS11E Standard - Nina - 1101cc
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    • #3
      If I remove the RLU won't it just assume that it's broken and not work altogether or does it automatically find a different path?
      Now you're playing with power!!!

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      • #4
        No, you'll have to do a minor modification outlined here:
        http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...=&threadid=874


        But rather than stripping and soldering, since this is a temporary thing, I'd suggest just putting a small jumper wire between the two concerned wires (blue/black and blue/yellow) in the connector.
        1979 XS11F Standard - Maya - 1196cc (out of order)
        1978 XS11E Standard - Nina - 1101cc
        http://www.livejournal.com/~xs11

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