Cut another norton tooth today

Suffered my first breakdown today while out plug chopping. He just died in mid stride. Tried to kick him back to life and after four trys I smelled gas but there was obviously no spark. Had the Boyer given up the ghost? Checked the headlight and pilot which didn't work and pulled the fuse which had blown. Why? Had a whole box of spares so I fitted one, he came to life and I rolled home on eggs. At home I checked around and found the pilot still didn't work. Voltmeter showed no power. Went to the bats nest of wires under the tank and sure enough the brown/green really loose in it's connection. Put some weathertights on the brown green and all appears well. But why would a loose connection blow the fuse as opposed to being intermittent? Hope I've solved my problem but am sorta waiting for the other shoe to drop if you know what I mean. Anyway we're in for 6" of rain the next two days and I'm going to go over every connection on the bike and install weathertights. Have a great weekend everyone! Rick

A loose connection will draw more current to satisfy the load. More current = higher amp = blown fuse.

Pvisseriii is quite right and you've probably found your problem. But where there's one loose connection, there's often more....

Or else the bike just got pissed off that you're referring to her as "he...."

Remember rgrigutis; all Norton’s are female. They are cranky, break down a lot, leak, and have a tendency to do what they damn well please.

In short, a Norton’s feels it’s better to look good, then to feel good.

Yup - intermittent connections will blow bulbs and fuses. To get a bit more technical, a light bulb will draw around 6 times its steady state current when switched on (Inrush current). It can only keep doing this for so long!

Incidentally, my Land Rover left me stranded yesterday because the wire dropped off the fuel pump solenoid. It waited 130,000 miles to do it though.

I'm off to try and tame my bats nest now, otherwise the tank ain't going to fit!

ludwig said:

If you are still using the original bullit sleeve connectors , check them closely .
I bet you'll find that several are cracked

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Or better still, in my opinion, replace every original bullet connector regardless of how they may look, as they are usually brittle and close to the point of failure.

HER! You call yours what you want. Mine's a man

rgrigutis said:

HER! You call yours what you want. Mine's a man

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I alway thought Norton were Eunics........um...er....maybe they said Unique.