Uly Electrical Trip info issues

[my99scoob]

after swapping the clock, the problem persisted. so now a new ECM is going on there, to see if it still persists

 

[frogmorton]

Hey I had the same problem with mine and it was the earth strap!! It had too much `locktight` stuff on it and the whole bike was earthing instead of just the strap and sending the dials all crazy-it also blew fuses and wouldn't start- but since they cleaned up the strap it has been fine.

 

[my99scoob]

thanks frogmorton. one of the things they tried was cleaning up some of the earthing points on it already. unfortunately, this didnt fix it. they swapped the ECM out last week, and it wouldnt run on the new one at all. they flashed the replacement ECM incase it was faulty to no avail. had to put my old one back on to get it to work. they also noticed the idle adjuster was hanging on by a thread, so replaced that, and now it wont idle properly either. if the revs get up to a sustained 3000rpm or higher, when you let go of the throttle, they'll drop to 2000rpm and no lower. they wont drop down to the 1050idle rpm... ive been told it might a a throttle posistion sensor, but it has been in and out of the shop for weeks now, and i'm no closer to getting to the bottom of the trip reset, and it seems to be developing more problems, rather than fewer!?

 

[Mongo]

my99scoob - I would look at a bad gound/earth. I realize the dealer "says" they have checked the grounds/earths but a bad ground will drive you crazy with the problems they can create. It will take some time but I would put my money on a bad ground when the problem is finally found and fixed. Often times a dealer will only check what is the easiest to get too or the battery ground when checking for a ground problem (my experience) but it could be a ground from any source that is cauing the problem; hence the driving you crazy syndrome!

If the bike is not running correctly and you can demonstrate the problem to the dealer then he has to fix it under warranty whether it cause a fault code or not. Most if not all of the fault code concern the engine management system anyway.

Good luck!

 

[fletch]

My 2003 buell lighting did the same thing about a year after I bought it. My problem was the battery negative terminal did not have a lock washer on it. So, it would stay tight enough to make contact, but wouldn't stay tight enough to keep it from slipping and every time it would slip/move it would reset the trip meter and the tach and speedo would bounce to the far right and back to zero. Harley dealer had no clue what was causing it.

hope this might help
fletch

 

[my99scoob]

thanks fletch, turned out to be a break where one cable runs down the loom from the battery, and near the headstock, splits into 3, 2 run to the ignition, and 1 up to the console as the "keep alive" feed. where it split 1->3, where was a break in the cable (but not the sheath around it). repaired this and had no repeat of this problem. woohoo!!

 

[LionBuell]

Glad you got sorted[up]

 

[LeFox]

super! finally...

did you get an invoice [confused]

 

[LeFox]

oh and btw, nice of you to give feedback everytime they did something [up]

 

[my99scoob]

no invoice, covered by waranty. and the updates were as much for my sanity than anything else. 2500mile european trip completed, and no re-occurence!!

 

[LeFox]

well i'll drink to that! [up]