right flasher no go

[greg maz]

front right flasher stays on when activated, so does the yellow light on the instrument panel, nothing on the rear right light.

Checked bulbs contacts and wires.

Is this the module - left works fine, is there a module per side?

Might have a wrong connection in the headlight, found a dangeling pink wire (from front right flasher) and plugged it into something that made it light up when pushing thumb to the right.

Also I think that I lost the rear running lights. Could that tell me where to look?

Thanks, I just finished painting it because living town and selling the beast, with much regrets already.

[cywelchjr]

It's the same module for both sides. Assuming that the bulb in the back unit is good then check the wiring to the back. The rear markers and the fronts should be on the same fuse.

As for the having to sell it that sucks. I have a love hate relationship with mine, but the hate part usually lasts less than two hours, then the love comes back.

[greg maz]

clearly the best bike I ever owned, and all antagonism was gone (I swore a lot during rebuild - thanks XS11, would have never done it alone) the first time I opened up on strech. I have been enjoying it ever since, solid bike. I just parked this afternoon next to a couple of shiny new harleys, they looked fake.

When you say marker, you mean connection, like left and right plug into the same double female? I guess I did that.

[XJOK2PLAY]

Hey Greg,

Sorry to hear you're mioving and going to have to sell your XJ! That figures, you just got it running good!

The way your R.S. lights are acting is exactly as they should if you blow a bulb, or have a bad connection and one light in the circuits not working. Remember, the flasher's are heat type...(thermal) and they have to have a certain amount of wattage draw (resistance load) in order to make the flasher work. Drop one bulb, and there's not enough resistance load.

Cy's telling ya right. Probably a bulb / socket problem, or a wiring connection.

BTW... what are ya gonna ask for it, and are ya planning to post an ad here w/ a pic?

Best of luck, man. Sad you're selling her.

[greg maz]

will uber check then

I will post some pix, shooting for a grand (31K, did 2nd gear fix about a k ago), it could happen in LA. I was told people ride bikes in SF too, but I don't want this one to rust. That bike just made my mood right every day.

[Brent]

check ground connections

[QUOTE=greg maz;246006]will uber check then

The braided wire grounding straps at the turn signal sockets are notorious for bad connections after a few years and some corrosion.

Good luck wrenching

[greg maz]

http://homepage.mac.com/gregmazz/xj11%20for%20sale/

[Athedra]

Just thought off the top of my head here.

Several times I read parts about the original flasher unit to be a three pin unit, and the conversion to two pin is normally done. If the flasher is "halfway blown" on a three pin. Would you get the same symptoms as discussed here?

The earth strap is easy to test, but works on both left and right either front or back. I had a dead earth strap on mine, and realized that when I took out the left globe and the right would stay off, and vice-versa. According to what I have read here, everything on the one side is working, but on the other side it is not, so doubt if the earth strap is the culprit.

[fredintoon]

- - - I just finished painting it because leaving town and selling the beast, with much regrets already.

Hi Greg,
put bike in van.
Take with.
If need room in van sell other stuff instead.
Selling bike you just got fixed act of damnfoolishness.

[fredintoon]

- - - Several times I read parts about the original flasher unit to be a three pin unit, and the conversion to two pin is normally done. If the flasher is "halfway blown" on a three pin. Would you get the same symptoms as discussed here? - - -

Hi Athedra,
the stock 3-pin flasher is an old-fashioned heat activated unit. There is no half way blown, it either works or it don't.
A blown one might be resurrected by cleaning it's points but that's it. It also needs at least 54 Watts of load to work which is why one blown bulb or even one 22Watt replacement bulb will let the flasher turn on but not load it up enough to flash.
Transistorized flashers will flash almost anything (but you do need a different one to flash LED lamps) also automotive 3-way flashers are all different inside and can't be made to work so you gotta use a 2-way unit and lose the self-cancel feature.

[Athedra]

Tx, fred...... explains why my flasher just keeps going and doesn't cancel. Was just a thought. Thought it might be possible for one side of the unit to stop working (contact urned or something)

[greg maz]

I checked all connections and wires that I could, still no go. Some wire has to be plugged wrong, or did I smash some cables in the harness (dunno how, seat rubbing?).
That bike is no submarine, it's not going to northern cal to be a ship wreak.

[greg maz]

ok ship wreck

I'll never get a bike this caliber for this few & sorry that I didn't get to meet you guys but I've to to move and could use every penny.

Sure will forward the site to the new owner

[Athedra]

You are selling?

What for?

Are you nuts?

Over a indicator?

That sucks!