Has anybody any idea why fuses are blowing in my bike. 05 xb9sx. Changed over the tail of the bike last night back to original cheese grater. Bike started fine last night everything worked lights indicators.
Started this morning. No power to any thing. No lights on instrument cluster only headlights working bike started ok.
Found the 'ACC' fuse had blown 10amp.
Replaced.
Everything fine. Bike started ok running fine then 'ACC' fuse popped again but this time it took out the ignition fuse. Bike is now completely dead.
I'm thinking I've got a short somewhere.
Checked every connection I touched last night and can't see anything.

Any ideas welcome.

Had a similar problem a couple of years ago - the loom under the seat had chaffed a bit on the seat causing a extremely small hole in the insulation which was shorting on the seat and blowing the fuses. Re-insulating re-routing the loom solved the problem. The bike is an 05 XB9SX as well so it's worth checking.

Banjo

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It turned out to be a short in one of my rear indicators. Took about 3 of us to work it out this morning.

Three of you to work out it was an indicator

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And it's just done it again same thing brand new indicators. Rear right hand indicator every time. Plug it into the leads for thd left rear indicator n it's still blowing fuses. Yet the left indicator works fine in the leads for the right hand indicator.

Any ideas anybody because this is confusing the hell out of me.

As Buellin' Banjo says, look for a chafed wire.......

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Glad it's sorted.

For others with 10A acc fuses blowing on their S models, another likely place to look is behind the headlight assembly. Where the headlight wires come through there, sometimes one of the wires gets pinched. I believe it's the parking light line, which in the US is not used... may not be hooked up the same way for non-US XBS's.

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It's not sorted yet. It only blows it you use the right indicator. This only started since I took off the tail tidy which was made of fibreglass and put the original cheese grater back on which is metal. Is there anyway this could be the source.
Like is it earthing out on the metal cheese grater? I'm running out of ideas with this. It's only seems to happen when the indicator is fitted if I take it off and hold it it doesn't blow. That's what is making me think it's either earthing or shorting out.

Have you trapped the wire with the cheesegrater?

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Now you mention it that's exactly what happened with my short (I'd quite forgotten that) so check all of the wiring directly under the seat.

Banjo

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There isn't anyway to trap it.

BB if I put the wires from the right indicator into the plugs for the left side it still blows.

That sucks that it blows.

Not much else to do but trace your wires as far back from the ends as you can. Chances are that since it happened directly after your work on the tail, the damage will be accessible, in that area.

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Yeah, and people don't get shot with empty guns........

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You've answered your own question there - if the indicator is blowing fuses whatever it's wired into then it must be a faulty indicator - get it replaced.

Hey have been replaced with one set of Buell indicators and one set of R&G indicators