Spikey D

Ah! Cheers for the advice. Just a couple of things if you will - Is it a fairly straight forward job and do you have any rough ideas about cost for a new loom? Am I better off getting a mobile mechanic to come out? Cheers, Spikey D

Hi there, I have a Yamaha XVS125, and the other day I was riding to work, the power kept cutting out. I assumed it was the battery, but there was a funny burning smell, a bit like coolant from a car radiator? Anyway, after making it to work, I decided to put the battery on charge just in case it was something simple - I hadn't used the bike for several months. Put the battery back in, got 8.5 miles into my 10 mile trek home when all the power just died to the bike. It hadn't been intermittant like on my way to work, it just died while I was doing 60mph in the dark! The smell was back and was really bad, even to the point I was feeling sick, although this could have been due to the 1.5 mile trek home pushing the damn thing!! The was no obvious smoke though. I've had a look at the bike today and found that the 30A fuse in the unit described by one ebay supplier as the "WIRING HARNESS MAIN LOOM" (link to item - If you can't tell, I'm an amature at this kind of stuff, so I go by pictures!) had blown. Realising that this could not have been the initial problem, as the power cutting was intermittant, I took it out of the bike, and it looks corroded around the pins that presumably go on to connect to the ignition and lights. I tried swapping the fuse over with the spare, but as soon as I connected the four-block of pins into the unit, it blew the second fuse. On trying to remove the unit, I had stupidly forgotten to disconnect the battery, and when my spanner touched both +ive and -ive contacts on the bike, it tried to turn over despite the keys not being in the ignition. Is this normal?! What I want to know is, is this unit likely to be at fault or could it be something else further up the electrical chain? (I have also had the generator, rectifyer and the battery replaced on this bike over the past 18 months due to other electrical issues) Would cleaning the corroded contacts help? And would the unit in the link above be the same as in my bike? Many thanks guys and gals! Spikey D