Wtf

[buzzbomb]

Have stored the fz6r about 3 months ago and decided to make a mid winter pit stop with her only to find I have power to the instrument cluster but tach unoperational and no digital display
Has anyone incountered this before?

Ok. That's weird. If it were me, here's what I'd check:

1. Charge on the battery. Good?

2. I'd be thinking something I did putting my bike up for the winter unplugged a plug. Sounds stupid, but no. Go back in your mind and think about what you did to winterize your ride. There's a lot of electronics on the bike, and a loose plug is all it takes. The same is true for a broken wire.

3. This comes from my experience with older bikes. The voltage regulator on older bikes is prone to failure. Did you try to jumpstart your bike with a car? If you did, it may have burned it out.

4. Ground. If you removed the wires from the battery, you might have missed a ground. Also there might be a ground wire that is just loose. If I remember having all the plastic off correctly, the chassis ground is on the right side of the bike, sitting on it. Make sure it's tight.

Once again, that's all it would take, to screw with the electronics.

Electrical problems are the worst to track down. The upside is, you didn't have a problem when you put her up. You've got one now. 99% chance it was something that happened when you put her up, or took her out, given a good battery.

 

[Marthy]

Changed heading in order to get some more attention
Am still really puzzled by this
Just wondering if Martha is still around maybe he could shed more light

Did you mean Marthy...lol

Not sure what's going on there... Does the bike start and run fine? If you were close I'll look at it and try your cluster on my bike to see if it work. Electrical problem can be a B$%#!!!! Maybe nothing is wrong with the dash itself.

Pop the fuel tank off and make sure all the connector are ok. Disconnect them and make sure they are nice and clean then plug them back in. Look at the wire loom around the front of the frame and all the way to the dash... make sure there is no chaffing or damage wires.

No big secret here... just need to look around and try to find out WFT is wrong with it. Never heard of a dash go bad on one of those... but everything is possible.

Good luck!

 

[abyss1406]

any one have a schematic or a wiring diagram i can trace?

 

[Insure Gal]

Instrument cluster

Thanks all for the help
Ya have done everything as suggested up to this point except dealer
Will have it there soon I hope ,appointment not till June 3 but am off this week so during bad weather I may sneak it in during a cancellation of another appointment,here's hoping
I suggested to the dealer just to run a diagnostic check on the harness to see if I have any ground faults if not will try new cluster so if that does not work I may be selling a cluster cheap if anyone here requires one lol
Ya Marthy, every thing runs simply flawless hence the decision to buy new cluster and hopefully it arrives while the bike is at dealer getting diagnostic check then all should be revealed.
I will then see if the old cluster can be repaired ie such as cold solder joint or bad chip and advise the forum if any one else runs into the same problem

Hopefully will be in touch soon with solution

 

[Insure Gal]

Finally a resolve
The new cluster has arrived and low and behold it works ,so all my suspicions have been founded all was ok with the bike but the cluster.
The only thing wrong is that we have now found out that the odometer memory is stored int the cluster ,not the main computer but oh weel we have to now add to the odometer reading 6300 Kilometers ,bit that we can live with
Thanks again all for your suggestions and from ence forth we have a lesson learned in that we all here know that clusters can malfunction.

 

[Scott_Thomas]

Finally a resolve
The new cluster has arrived and low and behold it works ,so all my suspicions have been founded all was ok with the bike but the cluster.
The only thing wrong is that we have now found out that the odometer memory is stored int the cluster ,not the main computer but oh weel we have to now add to the odometer reading 6300 Kilometers ,bit that we can live with
Thanks again all for your suggestions and from ence forth we have a lesson learned in that we all here know that clusters can malfunction.

Glad you finally got that resolved. Now it's time to ride!