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Old 07-18-2013, 10:29 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by zingshoen View Post
my neutral light gave up the ghost early in the game (after 3 weeks of proud ownership) by staying on all the time and eventually it burned out. my half educated guess is the switch is in the gears and gets crunched up so that the wire thinks it s time to complete the circuit. i ve disconnected that wire, (essentially an earth wire coming out of the engine) and insulated the power wire in the dash. it just branches off from the loom. as long as those wires aren t damaged there shouldn t be a problem. with the wiring diagram and a multimeter it was a piece of cake.
If that's the case, you should get continuity between the neutral switch and ground only when the bike is in neutral. If that's the case, then you should see 12V on a meter if you connect the black probe to the switch and the red probe to the positive battery terminal.
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