Owner passed away a few years ago and bike has been sitting in his shop. Original tires look new and wife thinks less than 5k miles. Not showing mileage, probably due to wiring issue.
Blowing a bottom right 15a fuse as soon as installed with key out and everything off.
Have not looked at anything as of yet but guessing a rat.
Schematic would he great if problem can't be seen.
Thanks!

 

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WP

 

My owners manual for a '04 1200 shows the lower right fuse to be 'spare fuse 15amp'. How about disconnecting the battery and remove a few items, searching for chewed wires?

 

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Aside from the electrical issue, I hope you're not planning to run those 20 year old tires.

 

Couldn't get schematic due to my expired account???? Anyway had almost a dead short to the fuse, so I disconnected everything until I lost the short.Have it down to the speedometer. Now have speedometer unplugged inside speedometer unit and all is good as far as fuse and electrical I pray. But have never in my life witnessed so much rust in my life in a fuel tank! It actually sounded like a tank full of Sonic ice and tea sloshing around.

Cleaned tank with shaking nuts inside and floating out the rust with a water hose inside letting the water flow from cap and threaded petcock fitting with petcock removed. Repeated this process several times with water purging it for several hrs, but it did a pretty good job.

Cleaned petcock and filter and got a good flow from tank. Vacuum pump came in very handy to open petcock for cleaning and allowing fuel to run thru petcock.

Cleaned what I could in carb with just bowl removed and pulling the bottom jet, as well as tip cleaner thru all ports that I could get to. Accelerator pump is working which made it try.

Bike did pop and try to start but am sure carb will have to be removed and cleaned throughly.

Covered back up and will get into carb and speedo when I get back from my work out on the ship for 28 days. This was my last day off and I just wanted to hear it come to life.

Will end up removing wire from whichever pin is shorted on speedo and try hooking it back up to see what still works, as I didn't have much luck finding another unit on ebay other than ones that barely survived a crash.

 

Thanks as this actually works!
just now seeing this and back @ work but it will definitely come in handy when I see what pin on speedo is shorted. Hoping maybe just the backlight or something amd not the speedo or digital display.

 

Try filling the tank with white vinegar and let it sit overnight.

John