• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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weird tail light issue

firebolter

firebolter

Husqvarna
AA Class
2010 TE 310. Took off the rear tail extension (includes blinkers and tag light). Covered the wires in a bag and tapped them up and stuff them behind the brake light. Removed the front turn signals.

When I roll the key and start it up, brake light is on. Check the usual suspects:
1. Front brake micro switch, almost always the culprit. No change. Even unpluged it, still brake light on.

2. Checked rear brake, loosened the "cam: to allow the brake pedal to return all the way, no difference.

3. Check rear brake resv to make sure it is not too full causing master cyl to activate rear brake switch. No difference.

4. Check wires under headlight. All connected and nothing bare I can see.

So I guess it's down to tracing the wire from back to front.
For now, I just dis-connected it as this is a woods bike and I don't need the brake light.

Weird..................
 
My 510 is the same way. I gave up messing with it. I have aftermarket signals wired in on the back still. They don't last long:-)
 
I think all the switches ground the circuit to light the lamp.

That suggests there is a short between the lamp and switches.

Looking at the areas you worked, i would look for a short (floating connectors making contact, touching metal) in the bag of wires. Maybe a disconnected ground wire in the bag is touching the ground side of the brake bulb.

One other odd cause could be a miswire on reassembly where you have running light voltage on the brake filament wires, and ground on the brake filament wire (reversed connectors).
 
K7MDL;132137 said:
One other odd cause could be a miswire on reassembly where you have running light voltage on the brake filament wires, and ground on the brake filament wire (reversed connectors).
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most likely the issue:thumbsup:
 
HUSKYnXJnWI;132410 said:
most likely the issue:thumbsup:
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Well, only if the connector can go on either way? I didn't really look to see if it is a one way plug, most are. Next time I mess with it, I will. For now it is unplugged. Only riding on private property for now and the first event it will see is a national. I didn't re-wire anything, just simply removed blinkers and the tag light.
 
That's right you have that new tail light that looks more like the ones from the 2006 models (I don't ever have a tag light just normal tail with running and brake light) . I took off all the stock stuff and am running the LED tail that came with the 2009 included power up kit. I soldered any connection that I changed. blinkers, headlight, tail... all soldered: so I am not familiar with the stock connectors and whether they can be put on only right. The way I did it- it could all have been wrong quite easily so I had to be mindful and test everything prior to finishing.

Just seems you checked all the usuall suspects real well and could be the running light wireing to the brake light- but if you never disconnected that Well then I am stumped.
 
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