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Hi Folks,
I have a 1994 K75RT that I have grown quite attached to, but is starting to show that love is a two-way street
CAUSE: Last fall I was riding through town and wanted to put the windscreen down, so I hit the down button on the dash pad and down it went. A few seconds later when I went to pop it up just a smidge I realized the button had caught on the foam dashpad in the down position and for about 15 second or so was engaged in the down position with the windscreen all the way down. I popped it up a few inches then went to drop it just a bit and noticed it would no longer go down.
Fast forward a few months. It was suggested that I might have fried the down relay so I bought a known good one from Drake at kbikeparts.com (excellent resource for used K-Bike parts BTW) and today was the day to dig in on the diagnostics.
DIAGNOSTICS:
First I swapped relays. Not knowing which relay was for up and which was for down I swapped the front relay for the known good one. Screen went up, screen did not go down. I swapped the front relay back and swapped the known good for the rear relay. Same result. So just to make sure, I swapped the two relays that were in there, for again the same result. Test one, all three relays work fine.
Second, I tested the switch. First I took apart an old switch I had (If you do this a spring will shoot out) and saw that the wiring was bottom wire is hot for windscreen up, middle wire was common, top wire was for windscreen down. It has a neat little "U" shaped pole that when up or down will touch two poles but when resting won't touch either. I got out my handy-dandy 14" length of heavy wire (aka "the ABS reset tool") and touched the two bottom poles on the back of the switch - windscreen went up. I touched the two top poles, nothing.
POSSIBILITIES:
Who knows? My only other thought is that in looking at the wiring diagram there is a stop switch that kills the power when the windscreen goes all the way up or all the way down - I am not sure if it is a plunger or a pole switch (or something else) but could I have either stuck it in too far so it caught if a plunger?
I am officially stuck Anyone have any ideas? My next step involves taking it to Anton and while I do like Anton and love his work I am not sure when I will have the time to do that (and then there is the "I'd rather blow the $$ on a netbook thing )
I have a 1994 K75RT that I have grown quite attached to, but is starting to show that love is a two-way street
CAUSE: Last fall I was riding through town and wanted to put the windscreen down, so I hit the down button on the dash pad and down it went. A few seconds later when I went to pop it up just a smidge I realized the button had caught on the foam dashpad in the down position and for about 15 second or so was engaged in the down position with the windscreen all the way down. I popped it up a few inches then went to drop it just a bit and noticed it would no longer go down.
Fast forward a few months. It was suggested that I might have fried the down relay so I bought a known good one from Drake at kbikeparts.com (excellent resource for used K-Bike parts BTW) and today was the day to dig in on the diagnostics.
DIAGNOSTICS:
First I swapped relays. Not knowing which relay was for up and which was for down I swapped the front relay for the known good one. Screen went up, screen did not go down. I swapped the front relay back and swapped the known good for the rear relay. Same result. So just to make sure, I swapped the two relays that were in there, for again the same result. Test one, all three relays work fine.
Second, I tested the switch. First I took apart an old switch I had (If you do this a spring will shoot out) and saw that the wiring was bottom wire is hot for windscreen up, middle wire was common, top wire was for windscreen down. It has a neat little "U" shaped pole that when up or down will touch two poles but when resting won't touch either. I got out my handy-dandy 14" length of heavy wire (aka "the ABS reset tool") and touched the two bottom poles on the back of the switch - windscreen went up. I touched the two top poles, nothing.
POSSIBILITIES:
Who knows? My only other thought is that in looking at the wiring diagram there is a stop switch that kills the power when the windscreen goes all the way up or all the way down - I am not sure if it is a plunger or a pole switch (or something else) but could I have either stuck it in too far so it caught if a plunger?
I am officially stuck Anyone have any ideas? My next step involves taking it to Anton and while I do like Anton and love his work I am not sure when I will have the time to do that (and then there is the "I'd rather blow the $$ on a netbook thing )