K11 Owners Group

[Mystic Red]

Snow's finally of our road and I was cleaning the K to start commuting on her again. Got her all buff and turned the key on, no headlight. Wait, I have high beam but no low. So I pull the plug and insert testing light, High beam wire modulates the test light but no low beam volts.
So, where do I start. The last place I worked on. Nooo. I pull the light switch apart and check volts there. I've got high and low power. So off comes the seat and tank to get at the wire that disappear underneath.
Then it hits me, with my baby in bits all over the shop, Duck's LED cluster conversion I did last month. I pulled the windshield panel to get at the back of the cluster so why not look in there, it' only one more part to tear off this son of a bitch.

When I pulled that panel and looked in there was the low beam wire (I had wire tied all the excess wiring as long as I was in there) torn loose from it's posi-loc. Doh! When I had reinserted the windshield assembly it had pulled it loose.
So here's the lesson I never seem to learn. When something goes wrong, take a minute to think, it might save you a lot of time although you will loose the disassembly practice.
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Scott Hespelt, '94 K11LT
K11 OG #466

[markmack]

Thanks for sharing the lesson.
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markmack
R100RT 1979..First road bike, spoiled me on BMW's and a touring fairing, moved had to sell.
K75C ..Spoiled me on the K motor, smooth, sold.
K1100LT 1993..Best tour bike for me.
K1200LT 2003..Happy wife..Happy life.