Yea mate, that sure sounds like a very unsafe thing. You sure dont want to be riding down the highway and catch on fire or something, could see all sorts of issues arising from that.

Narrowing that down should really be your first concern. But it probablly wouldnt be nessacary to start replacing every wire up there. Like my case for example my whole front harness was butchered and I found one fairly cheap on ebay and just replaced it. Not to say that you did something inccorrect with the HID wiring, but you really should in shrinking connections and wires where applicable. Heat shrink is cheap and also cheap insurance. Wiring isnt overly complicated. I mean you are created a loop of electricity. Its just if you start replacing a wire here and there it is going to get a little tedious trying to seperate wires from connectors and whatever. Depending on whatever wires you are reffereing to (aftermarket or factory) You probably better off disconnecting the whole harness and laying it out on the floor, it will give you a more complete job overall, especiallly if you do not know where your issue is plus you will get a chance to see everything. Plus the front harness isnt that complicated. You just have to be patient with wiring.

 

Yeah man, I know, I've 2wks off soon and will give everything a good detailed check.

12hr night shifts are a PITA, sleeping during the day so can never get a chance to buy stuff and if I take the bike apart I'm severely limited on time to get it all back together again and we all know 954's are tedious to work on, those velocity stacks fry my head every time! lol

I suspect this bike was laid up for an extended period before I bought it and damp may have set in here and there, as I'd previously found the green disease on fuses etc. I can't see myself ever selling this bike, so don't mind going the extra mile on her and replacing stuff. I intend to gradually restore it to as good as new condition.

 

Well, the good news is that it def seems wet related. Took her out today and absolutely slammed it for around 15 miles, lights running, she was hammering on like a dream and razor sharp without any hesitancy or misfiring.

Now the prob is working out where the water is affecting things, I'm guessing that yellow block connector behind cluster? The more I thought about it getting into coil packs, the less likely it seems. But at least I've found the common denominator and am very happy to not be lifting tank etc lol

 

Hi Dec , not much hope of keeping the water out, unless you invest in those water proof connecters , but to do the whole bike with them, eek

 

Bike should still perform in wet conditions though, so def have a weak spot somewhere that needs tidied up. Just glad I don't have to start messing around with the feckin multi meter now!

Might be time to retire on something completely weather proof, like a Blackbird lol

 

Hi Dec, yes the Blackbird is a brilliant bike , a mate had one, once we had removed the shock spacer , set up the sag and rebound, put the right profile tyres on, upgraded fork springs it handled a whole lot better, and really cheap bikes at the moment, but I would'nt let the 954 go

 

Be very difficult, and actually have a good offer on it at the moment, I think I'm just not going to reply to him lol

 

Good decision, Blades are going up in value

 

yeah, mine was in at 4100, I see another in at 4650 now. This time last year they were in around 3200-3500 max

 

Not just a good bike ,but a good investment as well