Hey Friends,
This website proved it's worth again last evening.
I have not been able to ride my NT since early March, over 5 miles, due to an Arthritis flare up in my legs and knees, but I thought I could make a 10 mile circle just before dark last evening.....which by the way, my knees were screaming at the 5 mile mark, so I'm still out of commission, . As I went through our small town, I noticed the local Deputy gave me a funny looking over as I met him. As I got closer to home and darkness, I realized I had no headlight.
I got home and checked the fuses, and then went to the computer to check this site, as I remembered seeing others having this problem. Sure enough, it was in the starter button. I sprayed contact cleaner followed by WD40 just in around the buttons to flush it out, but it was still flickering out. Since it was too dark to see , I quit messing with it until this morning and checked it as I was leaving for work....it seems to be ok now and maybe I won't have to dis-assemble the switch to clean it anymore than a little more flushing out through the button slots.
Anyway, the first 5 miles were nice to get to ride, but I am going to have to siphon out the old gas this evening and put some fresh gas in with injector cleaner, as the bike doesn't want to idle very good and I think it is because of the old gas, even though it was treated for the Winter...I haven't been able to ride any this Spring and Summer to burn up the tank full. I'm hoping it is not the plug caps failing.
It appears like I still won't be riding for a while as I wait for a new drug to take effect and get my Arthritis under control again. My worst year for a long time in the 40 years of fighting the A. I did have a set of forward controls installed on my Vmax last week, but so far, about 5 miles is all I can do on it either.
Thanks for the info on the headlamp problem, and a great website!