"Finding" Neutral issue

[flaya564]

Anywho, I unplugged the kickstand safety switch and the bike would stall as soon as I let out the clutch. Plugged the connector back in and went for a 30 minute ride. Sure enough the same shit with the neutral light, clutch and kickstand... Rode back to work, 30 minutes later and its working again.

WTF.
Anyone?

 

[agfish18]

have you checked your clutch cable? just to see if it needs adjustment?

 

[flaya564]

Would it be loose or tight, should I adjust the clutch itself.

 

[flaya564]

When this happened to you, did you have all the symptom I have, no light, bike shuts off when kick stand goes down, have to hold in the clutch to start the bike?

 

[crxtasy169]

Clutch cable is usually too loose. There shoul be about 3-4 mm of lever free play. Anymore can make it hard to find nuetral.

 

[flaya564]

I got a response from Erik Buell himself. That is just freaking awesome. I'm going to check on his suggestions tomorrow, just wanted to pass along what he said.

ME

I'm looking for help. I've got a 2003 Lightning XB9S. I've recently started having a problem. After the bike has warmed up, I'll go to neutral and the gauge won't indicate neutral. At the same time. if I put the kickstand down the bike will cut off and I can't restart the bike with out holding in the clutch. What is the cause of this?

Erik Buell
about an hour ago

Joel, there are 135,000 Buells out there, so it will be really hard for me to provide service help. Buell was kept by H-D and they have all the rights to parts and service. That being said, here are some thoughts: ounds like possibly two problems the neutral light and side stand switch. First figure out if the neutral light not coming on is a problem with the instrument cluster or the neutral sensor. Put the bike in gear with the ignition switch on and handle bar switch on. Then unplug the single wire off the neutral switch and ground it, the neutral light should come on if the instrument cluster is good. If that happens, then it’s just a bad neutral switch. The side stand shutting down the bike sounds like a bad diode. There are only two of them in the fuse box, so try replacing them both and make sure to put them in with the arrow facing the same way as the old ones were as it is directional currant. Hopefully this works, otherwise go to the dealer.