daveinva
09-12-2011, 10:22 AM
So I went to take a ride yesterday morning, do my pre-ride check, and discover that my left wheel fender tip and Brightside lights are out.
I wasn't *too* surprised-- I thought I had a short there a couple weeks back, I was getting "fast blinking" from time to time, but it was intermittent, and it still worked (and a fast blinking turn signal is still a turn signal :thumbup:).
Alas, I was ignoring a real problem: the red/yellow/black connectors (see on the lower left of the image) have a red and black wire going out of it. On my left wheel, the black wire was broken clean through. I had the wires zip-tied properly on the A-arm (or so I thought), but obviously, there was enough stress going on there that the wire broke through. Oh well.
32294
Anyway, I ordered another pair from ESI; I'll swap out this one, and have a spare in case it ever happens again. I'm going to figure out a better way to zip-tie these things onto the frame to keep the stress at zero.
Oh well... it's only money, right?? :roflblack:
I wasn't *too* surprised-- I thought I had a short there a couple weeks back, I was getting "fast blinking" from time to time, but it was intermittent, and it still worked (and a fast blinking turn signal is still a turn signal :thumbup:).
Alas, I was ignoring a real problem: the red/yellow/black connectors (see on the lower left of the image) have a red and black wire going out of it. On my left wheel, the black wire was broken clean through. I had the wires zip-tied properly on the A-arm (or so I thought), but obviously, there was enough stress going on there that the wire broke through. Oh well.
32294
Anyway, I ordered another pair from ESI; I'll swap out this one, and have a spare in case it ever happens again. I'm going to figure out a better way to zip-tie these things onto the frame to keep the stress at zero.
Oh well... it's only money, right?? :roflblack: