Ok so I have the most annoying electric problem and need some advice. However I realise this is probably a lost cause as most electric problems are unique and all i really need to do is spend forever looking through all the wiring, insulating everything in sight. but that said I’m still hoping for the easy way out, i.e someone thinks of something i havnt or has had the same problem.
so…
Basically I took off the rear sets to my bandit 600 to give em a quick shine with the dremmel as you do. Plus fit braded hoses. all went well however since putting the rear sets back on one of the fuses keeps blowing. this takes out the dash, indicators and rear bulbs. So I assumed the likely culprit was the rear switch for the brake as its located on the rear sets id just taken off. Ive taken off the switch, insulated the wires and hoped that would isolate the problem. Road all the way to work and boom the little bastardddd pops again. 3 days = 5 fuses
the thing is its random at how long it takes to blow. sometimes 2 miles sometimes 10 sometimes I actually get to work with lights.
If you still have the problem, you have my sympathy. It’s not enough to just check the switch area.
I once spend days looking for that sort of fault (left turn indicators) on a 1978 BMW airhead. It wasn’t the work I had done, it was disturbing some cables, and the fault was where the main harness had moved and an old, unknown, chafe point was now against the frame.
Make sure you don’t have a similar problem while you are in there.
Best of luck. Things electrical are, shall we say, frustrating?
Basically it had nothing to do with the brake switch. Its like one of you said, where I’d moved the wiring loom it had exposed a chaif I hadnt seen before which was making contact with the frame. Insulated it up and re-routed the wiring with some cables ties to stop it happening again.
