Went out for a ride yesterday and all was going good until the bike just died,

all lights, blinkers, horn everything works but nothing at the starter switch,

it's like the kill switch has been switched off,

I have checked the switch and there is no power to it,

there is power at the ignition ( grey wire goes to kill switch) but no power at the join in the wires at the bass of the handle bars,

so under the tank I'm guessing is where the problem is,

is there a fuse or alike under there

any ideas

 

regards Stumpy

Crank sensor near the oil filter probably shit it self. Take it out and give it a clean before replacing it.

 Haven't PLAYED with any other harleys than my own, no fuse on mine, sounds like a connection fail, you are going to have to lift tank and look. (I take it that there is power leaving the ing; switch??) 

Crank sensor, ??????????? I will have to look into that one,
thanks Hogbag

Rxes, I have power to the switch but thats as far as I have got, I will download a wiring diagram today and check it out

I have changed the bars but all wires are soldered and they were the first things I checked

When the sensor fails that's fairly common the ECM has no signal telling the injectors when to open and close squirting fuel. they can be cleaned and work fine for a while but could fail again so Carry a spare in case it shits again. I posted some info on finding fault codes last week so check it out and see if the engine logged a fault code.

sensors shit often when i do rebuilds i replace em only about 60 to 80 bucks have seen em with heap small metal frags in fucked motors could be a wire crush or break if ya had tank off lately just wiring a fxr atm dont run circut breakers as ya cant see em when stuffed i run a fuse box easy llok check fuse find problem within mins

all sounds good but it's a shame it's an 87 heritage
now if it was injected I would have been laughting

thanks all the same

ok so its one the good ones evo mmmm did ya check battery to see how many volts an amps lights ect all work on a amps but to start needs big volts worth checkin that too is it windin over or just nuthin could be circut breaker too

maybe next time ya post put up wat bike is besides a harley some us old buggas cant see the picts that good lol

hahahahahah
sorry old skool, I'm the same, 50 this year and losing my eye sight,
plenty of voltage everywhere, all blinkers, lights brake lights everthing but the starter
starter button wont do anything, like I said it's like the kill switch is turned off
thats why I'm thinking it's a wire from the ignition switch to the starter button or to the kill switch,

cheers

Ended up taking the tanks off and found the problem,
the power wire to the kill/starter switch had let go,
so all is good

thanks for all your help guys
Stumpy