A brief background: I'm a new rider of about a month and an owner of a 2006 S40, also about a month. As a whole, this bike runs very well and I didn't notice any big problems with it before about a week ago. It has some minor leaking coming from the engine, which I was planning to address first until the headlights and horn stopped working.
Problem: I was riding at night and I was switching between the high beam and regular beam at times. (luckily) Not too far from home, the headlight started flashing and then finally went out. So I put my hazards on and coasted back - the turn signals were working and so was the rear-light.
What I found: I thought at first that the headlight just burned out, but after looking through this website I saw that other people with a similar problem also had issues with the horn not working and turned out to be the same problem with my bike.
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http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1297947989)
So, I guess my question is:
- Do ya'll have any advice before I start trying to take my bike apart to fix this problem? Anything related to diagnosing the issue and any specific tools you use to patch up electronics and/or taking off the gas tank (electrical tape and so on, or any quality of life suggestions)
- I was ready to start taking the gas tank off to look at the connectors (which I'm still not exactly sure what they look like) until I noticed my bike's petcock. It's much different than how it looks in the manual and I didn't want to destroy it. It's attached below as image1.jpeg
P.S: I was thinking about taking it to a mechanic who deals with motorcycles at first but most of the one's closest to me were backed-up with too many jobs or only worked on sports bikes. I have a tiny apartment garage that I'm using to store my bike where I'll be working on it as well.