no turn signals

[Darwin_R65]

with my bike, the hazard switch died which meant no indicators. Temporarily fixed with wire shorting out the relevant terminals.


Do all lights work, stop and tail lights, horn? instrument lights.

It's odd for a switch to fail in both directions, but not impossible.

If you have a multimeter with ohms and a wiring diagram, you can disconnect the plugs under the tank and check the switch out, quite simple.

Also switch to volts and look for volts on these plugs.


Let us know what year your bike is, is an LS or not?  this helps us show you wiring diagrams.

John

[Patrick_Krivacka]

the title to my bike says it's a 1980. But, it's been messed with so much, that you could hardly call it a '80 r65 with a straight face.
i think I found the relay. It too was screwed to the rear fender. the wires feed directly into it with a big glob of silicone covering it. Is this OEM? (joke) the silicone is cracking and tired looking. Crap. i guess it couldn't hurt to replace it. A regular auto relay should work, right?

[Patrick_Krivacka]

oh yeah, if it matters, all the other lights do work.

[Patrick_Krivacka]

after extracting the wires from the silicone mess, and plugging them into the new relay I just picked up from the auto zone, I have blinkers again! thanks for all the help and patience.

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

i-man,

Have you had the tank off, yet?

Are there any tabs on the main backbone of the frame where relay sockets could be mounted?

The relay sockets are readily available from a dealer.  They have a tab on one side to screw to the tabs on the frame.

I think you told us you had matching frame and engine numbers?  

Be sure to take pictures when you take the tank off.  

[Patrick_Krivacka]

Here's a (poor) photo. No brackets. I can't even see where they ground them down. At least they did a good job of that.  I also put in another shot of my coil, a classic if there ever was.

[montmil]

i-man,

In your first photo, is that a relay zip tied to the main wiring harness? I gotta give you big props just for getting
"The Monster" on the road. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Monte

[Patrick_Krivacka]

yes thats the relay zip tied to the wiring harness! aren't they all like that? what about the coil attached with galvanized fence hardware?!THE COIL!! MY GOD, THE COIL!!

[montmil]

Your sense of humor will likely see you through the challenges of civilizing the FrankieBeemer.

Monte

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

It looks like you need to buy a small welder to fix that up!

Previous owners...  

[Patrick_Krivacka]

I wonder if all that cuttin' and grindin' was done to fit the mysterious two petcock gas tank. THAT'S RIGHT SUCKA'S -TWO PETCOCKS! Anyone want to trade? Didn't think so.

[nhmaf]

Definitely some "farmer-engineering" went into that poor bike!   You're doing well to have gotten this far!

[montmil]

... THAT'S RIGHT SUCKA'S -TWO PETCOCKS!

Well, i-man, at least you won't be seen laying the FrankenBeemer over on its side sloshing the unusable fuel on the right side of the tank into the left side... so you can hopefully make it to a fuel stop.

I wouldn't mind twin petcocks...

Monte

[Ed Miller]

"Well, i-man, at least you won't be seen laying the FrankenBeemer over on its side sloshing the unusable fuel on the right side of the tank into the left side... so you can hopefully make it to a fuel stop.

I wouldn't mind twin petcocks...

Monte"

Easier to just lift the gas tank off and tilt it.  I haven't needed to yet.  The other day, my bike went onto reserve with about 20 more miles to go to work, so I got so paranoid I was doing the speed limit.  When I filled up in town it only took about 5 gallons, so I must have had at least a half gallon left.  But I didn't have to tilt the tank.

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Yeah, I've never felt impaired in any way by only having one outlet on my fuel tank.