Oil light went on during a ride...then off...then on...Help!oil lightConbs made a good suggestion about using a jumper wire to the headlight bezel but if you have wiring problems you still may not know if your bulb is good or not. If it still doesn't work then you should remove the bulb and test it independently of the wiring harness.
HeadlightI agree with Mike. You would need to know you have juice at the leads to the light to be able to check the switch. You can try to test with a continuity light, but it may be easier to just test the headlight against a good power source to make sure it is good.
Tail light still has me wondering. It takes a lot of juice to shatter a light bulb. Is there any possibility that you have a cracked spark plug wire that somehow jumped over to the bl/y wire going to your tail light? It could go back through the key switch (when in the lights on position) and blow out your headlight, too.
sorry for the delay in reporting back! I had my dream fixer diagnose the issue....turns out it was the front end light and that the rear light was not related but happened at the same time...such coincidence!!
You probably already know about this place, but I love Charlie and they seem to be a great place for hard to find parts! http://www.charlies-place.com/index.html thanks everyone for all your help and interest in my dream! more pics coming soon..... sk
One point of fact here, and apologies for the tardiness in picking this up, the red light in the top of headlight nacelle is the 'NEUTRAL' indicator -- not hi-beam. Sorry to contradict (you) Jethro. I seem to recall that some Dreams have a hi-beam mimic in the speedo(?). Sorry, I'm CB-knowledge, mainly!
The other thing that I'm late in mentioning (I'm offshore and travelling [again] and have sporadic connectivity -- no VSAT on this yacht!) is that a poor battery can cause lamps to explode. If the bike cranks & starts every time on the button, then chances are the batt is fine; if cranking is lazy, or intermittently so, and/or you sometimes/always have to kick it over, then the battery may just have internal high resistance between -- or within -- the cells. Such a phenomenon will prevent the batt from stabilising the DC voltage, thus allowing the entire system voltage to rise, or spike, to as much as 20VDC! Worth considering.... EDIT: when I say 'explode', I mean totally destroy the filament within the glass envelope, splattering bits all around the inside of the glass; not necessarily implode (it's a vacuous glass enclosure) the glass literally!
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Thanks for the post Steve. My bike has a blue neutral light above the area of speedo. The red light I am talking about is acutally in teh speedo area just above the 50 mph mark (in fact there is actuall y no 5-0 but the red light seems to take it's place.
The note about the battery is certainly something to keep in mind! Thanks for your continued interest in my Dream issue!! sk
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