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[poccer]

Good Morning from Sussex UK

Exploring the potential of my newly aquired K75RT I find that there is a yellow light that shows up at 7 thousand rpm

It the one below the oil pressure light which I thought was not used?

(Not the yellow fuel warning light which shows in the left hand dial)

Any Ideas

Thanks

Nick

[Inge K.]

This is the warning light for "choke on", it should be a symbol beside it.
If not, it`s a instrument cluster from a 16V.

Inge K.

[poccer]

Thanks Inge didn`t know I had a Choke Light on this model

Doesn`t normally show up when starting ,could be connected wrongly
will take a look.

Have got another issue with poppin and banging on the overrun so will check that out at the same time

Thanks
Nick

[Scott_Anderson]

[Inge K.]

[Jim]

Factory setting for the TPS leaves you with a situation where you can get extreme backfire on the K75. If you tweak the TPS so it cuts the fuel off just a little sooner, that will usually take care of it.

Had the same problem with my 75 - it backfired like a big truck - finally found someone who knew what to do about it.
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1997 K1100LTSE 94,000 - still has gremlins!
1995 R100RT Classic 16,650 crashed - repaired!
1992 K75RTP 46,000

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[Jeeves]

[Ted]

What year is it, does it have ABS?

There are two yellow lights in the earlier clusters, none in the later. The one on the bottom left was I believe only used in the '85 K100RS and it was a low fuel lamp that preceded the red "really low" fuel lamp by about a half gallon. The second yellow lamp is on the right at the bottom left of the four lights, has a graphic with a circle with a tilted line through it, and indicates that your choke (aka more correctly the throttle enrichment) is on. On the ABS bikes the ABS light replaced the bottom left low fuel light, and on the later 2v Kbikes the yellow idle light was just dropped. Interestingly enough, all the plumbing is still there on the later bikes and you can add it with the simple addition of a switch available at your dealer.

Sounds like this is the choke on warning light - does the light go on when you have the engine running and use the choke and go off when you flip the choke off? It could be the switch is malfunctioning, or something is causing it to activate. Or, it could be an issue with the cluster, which begs the question, do you have an original cluster? A lot of these clusters have failed and people have bought used ones from all across the spectrum as they are pretty much plug and play.

The TSP adjustment should fix the backfiring, it is a common problem and that is the solution 99% of the time. Though to be fair, all K75s do that to some degree, just as they will all smoke to some degree if you park them warm on the sidestand.
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Ted
KOG#1

[Inge K.]

[Flying Duck]

They stopped installing the choke switch in 1991. The wiring is still in the wiring harness though so you can retrofit the switch (you need the spacer ring too) if you care about having a choke light.
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