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Neutral light failure.
10/28/08 at 13:30:57

I think my neutral sensor in my trans may have died while i was riding the other day, all electrical components test good. Is there a gasket that i will need to put the trans casing back together with? or is it a silicon seal?

I'm sure I will figure all this out when i rip into it later, however if anyone has any words of wisdome... My ears are wide open.

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PipJones Full Member Offline Posts: 146 Fort Worth, Tx Gender:	Re: Neutral light failure. Reply #1 - 10/28/08 at 15:05:28 For all those who acutally car, it was an easy fix. saughter the wire back in place, replace paper gasket. fill with oil. AND my neautral light works again! woot!!!! Pip Jones
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Chopped Senior Member Offline Hurts Like hell when you shoot yourself! Posts: 499 Stafford, VA Gender:	Re: Neutral light failure. Reply #2 - 10/28/08 at 15:12:42 Did I just hear a woot?
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PipJones Full Member Offline Posts: 146 Fort Worth, Tx Gender:	Re: Neutral light failure. Reply #3 - 10/28/08 at 16:05:41 yup!!!!
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Re: Neutral light failure.
Reply #4 - 10/28/08 at 19:02:35

Aaaaaa ..... are you saying if failed (broke) inside the engine? Huh

If so, I think you should look at how the wire is routed outside of the engine.
Why??? The inside part in the engine doesn't move. Maybe vibration, but there isn't much wire lenght in there so not much wire weight to move. But, if the wire oustide was moving around, that could lead to it getting pulled off the plastic thing in the engine.....
maybe....

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steely Senior Member Offline Posts: 325 Tulsa, Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Neutral light failure. Reply #5 - 10/28/08 at 19:12:52 Glad you were able to fix it with little trouble. I would be a little curious as to why it came apart inside the engine as well.
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Re: Neutral light failure.
Reply #6 - 10/29/08 at 05:11:47

i'm not sure, but i have my doubts that i am the first one to tear into this bike, with the missing air filter, wiring being taped in very very odd places, electrical tape around single wires.

my guess is someone else was fiddling around with the bike and had absolutly no idea what it was that they were doing.

Anyhow, i added more slack into the sensor housing and re-zip-tied it, and i will be attatching the wire to the frame quite a bit sooner than it was last time.

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Re: Neutral light failure.
Reply #7 - 10/29/08 at 08:29:09

Heat shrink tubing is cheap enough at Harbor Freight. Soldering wires & heat shrink tubing is the way to go. Some places Shrink just wont fit & tape wont wrap around either. Thats where "Liquid Electrical Tape" comes in. Not cheap but REally good to have around.

Soldering is easy, but like everything else, its just kinda odd the first few times. Get a wire stripper, I just have the one that has different sized notches in the handle & crimps connectors at the front end. The little squeeze grip, auto gauge select, things go bad & get weird, so I stick with the simple style. Simple stuff really. Cleanliness matters, neatness helps.
Anyone wanting soldering tips, gimme a holler, start a thread on it. Thers lots here who have years O experience at it. The Air Force taught me. Something they didnt teach us was how to set up to solder a wire & make it smooth & go straight. Strip & clean & twist the wire ends, cross them & wrap the ends in opposite directions, toward the other wire to be connected to. As opposed to just twisting the ends & having 2 wires, side by side, with the ends wrapped tightly, these will be in a straight line & can have heat shrink applied & it will be a very neat installation. Its good to have 2 pair of needlenose to tighten up the wraps. Apply some flux, apply heat & dab a spot O solder in it, let it cool, slip the shrink tubing up & warm it up & Duuude! YOu got yerself a good fix. I have a solder gun from weller, about 30 years old & then the little 30ish watt soldering iron & stand with a sponge( to clean & "Shock" the tip. By cooling it, its supposed to have a heat surge & come back in a minute or so, hotter than before the wipe across the damp sponge.

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