Headlight acting weird
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A couple years ago I had a similar problem. I'd start up the bike, and no headlight. Take it apart and try the bulb-worked perfectly. Put it back together and it would be fine until the next time it acted up.
What fixed mine was removing the contacts from the connector inside the headlamp shell, squeezing the contacts a bit tighter with some pliers, and reinstalling them. Apparently, the contacts weren't making good connection with the tabs on the headlamp all the time. It seemed to happen when I'd first start the bike for some reason.
Since I did this, I've had no more trouble.
What fixed mine was removing the contacts from the connector inside the headlamp shell, squeezing the contacts a bit tighter with some pliers, and reinstalling them. Apparently, the contacts weren't making good connection with the tabs on the headlamp all the time. It seemed to happen when I'd first start the bike for some reason.
Since I did this, I've had no more trouble.
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A couple years ago I had a similar problem. I'd start up the bike, and no headlight. Take it apart and try the bulb-worked perfectly. Put it back together and it would be fine until the next time it acted up.
What fixed mine was removing the contacts from the connector inside the headlamp shell, squeezing the contacts a bit tighter with some pliers, and reinstalling them. Apparently, the contacts weren't making good connection with the tabs on the headlamp all the time. It seemed to happen when I'd first start the bike for some reason.
Since I did this, I've had no more trouble.
What fixed mine was removing the contacts from the connector inside the headlamp shell, squeezing the contacts a bit tighter with some pliers, and reinstalling them. Apparently, the contacts weren't making good connection with the tabs on the headlamp all the time. It seemed to happen when I'd first start the bike for some reason.
Since I did this, I've had no more trouble.
It stays on the rest of the day with no problems.
My first thought was a bad ground but that doesn't make sense either.
If it were any of the above it would do it all the time and that is not what is happening.
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