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Old April 16th, 2019, 04:52 PM   #3
InvisiBill
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Name: Bill
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MOTM - Aug '15
As you've already found, that fuse covers basically every running light on the bike. It's mostly the red/blue wire you want to be looking at, but other colors are used for the remaining circuits after switches (brakes, ignition for the park feature, etc.). It runs all over the bike, from the dash to the plate light, so you've got quite a bit to check.

Like DannoXYZ said, you can use a meter to test for unwanted continuity between the + wire and ground. Unfortunately, it could be anything from a wire rubbed through in the middle of the harness somewhere, to a corroded bulb socket shorting out. The sockets are probably the easiest to check out, so you might as well look for obvious problems at all the bulbs.

Other likely spots are where the wire is close to hard parts joining together or moving. This is where you'd be most likely to find pinched or rubbed-through wires. Anything is possible, but a wire ziptied to the frame in the middle of the bike is a lot less likely to get damaged than where it passes from the body into the turn signal, for example.
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