Warning light keeps flashing and Fuel Gauge wrong...Help?

[nbsledder]

Does anyone on here know what could be wrong with my sled? The warning light keeps coming on and flashing seven or eight times and the fuel gauge says empty but it's got almost a half a tank in it......also the speedo sometimes is reading but the track hasn't even moved?

 

[kinger]

Bad ground, have you checked/cleaned your battery cables?

 

[4Fighter]

Did you have your handlebars off?

 

[nbsledder]

Had them off a couple of years ago to put a 1 inch riser in.

 

[4Fighter]

Had them off a couple of years ago to put a 1 inch riser in.

Couple of years ago? It's not what I was thinking then.

 

[rage man]

unno but defentally somthing electrical

 

[LazyBastard]

Next time you start a thread, it might be helpful to put the SUBJECT in the Subject line.

 

[Swiss Sledder]

Fixed.

 

[Len Todd]

If you had a bad ground at the battery connection, it seems that you would have noticed trouble, at least intermittantly, with the starter.

I do not have Tech or Operator Manual with me. But, have you looked in your Operator Manual to see what the seven or eight flashes, whichever it actually is, = in the trouble shooting codes? It could be telling you you have a short or open in the wiring or at a connection point in the indicated circuit. Could the riser have caused a pull on a wire and broke it?

 

[nbsledder]

Found the problem......The plug in to the gauge was loose.....must have been when i changed the windshield.
just keep this in mind folks.....might save you some grieve down the road

 

[Len Todd]

Thanks for Posting the fix!