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Oldfeller2 Senior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 323 Gender:	dead on the road 10/14/07 at 11:45:55 Well, sh-t happens. I have a blown fuse -- was starting the engine and got headlight shine and a click and part of a starter whine -- then it all went dead. I am bookless and have the stock tool kit -- that's it. Where are the fuses? Oldfeller
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SavageWahine Serious Thumper Offline Aloha & Hang Loose Posts: 1553 Beautiful Kauai! Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #1 - 10/14/07 at 11:49:19 I"m sorry to hear that oldfeller, what happened to your extra set of fuses? Guess you won't leave home without them anymore.
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #2 - 10/14/07 at 11:50:03 Under the seat on left side in small white thing
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Oldfeller2 Senior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 323 Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #3 - 10/14/07 at 11:52:02 got the spare fuse that's taped to the inside of the toolbox cover (Suzuki thinks about you oometimes) so now I'm pulling the seat hoping to find out where to plug it in. Where is the fuse block located?
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #4 - 10/14/07 at 11:53:44 message above
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Oldfeller2 Senior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 323 Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #5 - 10/14/07 at 12:01:13 Thanks Bill, This is funny -- have you ever tried to get your seat off with a standard tool kit? You have a 10mm wrench and no way to get to the recesseds nut with the wrench. That fuse might as well be located on the far side of the moon.
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #6 - 10/14/07 at 12:08:20 NO this is the hardest bike I every work on and I thought it would be easy .one reason i bought it
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Reelthing Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Fish or ride that is the question Posts: 5397 Houston,Tx Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #7 - 10/14/07 at 12:08:27 don't need to pull the seat (sure easier if you do) but the fuse "block is on the right hand side of the bike if your sitting on it - about half way along the seat - it looks like a relay - pull it apart and there's a pait of 20amps in there.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Online Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #8 - 10/14/07 at 12:46:32 Right RT, fuses are on the left only if you're riding backwards. It's held on by a rubber thingy, You can pull it forward (to the way the bike travels) and it will come off.
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sluggo Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline big singles lead, twins follow the pack Posts: 4744 moses lake washington Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #9 - 10/14/07 at 13:27:02 if you only have one spare fuse, make sure you know why it blew in the first place, would hate to blow the only spare/
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Re: dead on the road
Reply #10 - 10/14/07 at 14:38:15

verslagen1 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:

Right RT,
fuses are on the left only if you're riding backwards.
It's held on by a rubber thingy, You can pull it forward (to the way the bike travels) and it will come off. Grin

You mean that you don't remove the fuse holder to the right too?

Of course, you can remove the fuse holder from the rubber thingie to the left Tongue

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SavageWahine Serious Thumper Offline Aloha & Hang Loose Posts: 1553 Beautiful Kauai! Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #11 - 10/14/07 at 17:56:55 Oldfeller2 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10: Where are the fuses? Oldfeller Talk about misunderstanding! Here I thought you were mad at yourself for not bringing fuses, when in reality you were asking where the fusebox was. It had not occurred to me that you didn't know. Sorry, I would have told you otherwise.
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Re: dead on the road
Reply #12 - 10/14/07 at 18:12:18

Battery is prime suspect at this point. Fuses were fine. New battery acquired and I will drive the 80 miles to where the bike is stashed and put it in tomorrow night and see if I can get her home.

Also pulled the air cleaner since I had the plate off. Dirt only went about a half inch down into the media then it was clean oil and clean fabric the rest of the way through. Nothing but air is getting through the oil soaked poly batting, not even fine dirt is making it through.

I'm replacing the 1" material with 2" material to see if it changes the increased power characteristics any. I am looking to make it a once a year wash & re-oil sort of filter instead of a wash & re-oil every six months like it is now.

I really hate getting left on the roadside -- sucks, it does. I hate wasting an entire evening riding in a car to work on a bike by flashlight and headlight power.

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Bobbert Serious Thumper Offline CHOP IT Posts: 836 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	Re: dead on the road Reply #13 - 10/14/07 at 18:29:39 double check all the connections, especially the relays
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Re: dead on the road
Reply #14 - 10/14/07 at 23:17:48

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Under the seat on left side in small white thing

NO this is the hardest bike I every work on and I thought it would be easy .one reason i bought it

Bill - it's a very easy bike to work on - there are a few different bits from year to year - perhaps the s40 has the fuses on the left in a small white block - but for sure the Savages/LS650s do not - the fuse block is to STARboard.

About a million years ago, a fellow with more stripes than could be counted that ran from the button to far past the elbow told me left and right didn't mean any thing - port and starboard did - assume anything worthwhile moves foward and your on it - to your right are the STARs of life to the left are the drunks sucking up PORT - boy he says - chose - are you on the right or the left?

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