Rode to work today and for the first time I noticed my fuel injection light flickering. Got home and pulled the rear cowl off, including my wingrack and got down to the test block on the left side near the rear passenger footpeg bracket to frame connection. Here's that pic...note the corrosion


Next pic is of the cap with prongs that I hooked a battery and test light up to to see which wires were connected


Next pic is of the block from what I am calling the front...non latch side, for wire color and grouping


This is the rear side shown for wire grouping


Next pic shows the front side group 1 of wires, 2 heavey gauge white with green stripe and smaller white with grey bar, to be tied together


Next is the front side group 2 wires 2 light gauge yellow with red stripe tied together


Next is group 3 front side of 2 smaller gauge green with grey bars and 1 larger gauge green tied together for a total of 8 wires on the front side


Last pic is of the rear side of the block...all 10 wires tied together


I solders these groupings together and taped up individually, the all into one and pointed it upwards and zip tied to the frame.

Yes it works and no more flickering light.
On the UK site, there was 1 more wires on the front side than mine. Those post are hot on my cap but there are no connecting wires to them. Must be for Euro accessories.
Took about 2 hrs for me including drawing a wire diagram and testing connections

Nice work porterb123, I recently dismantled mine and found only 1 connector slightly green. I cleaned it, added some dielectric grease and shoved the whole block up by the battery case and zipped it to the cross piece between the subframe rails right by the battery. I had a corner of the block showing so I think I was headed for more trouble down the road. I'm glad I did some prevenative maintainence.

What year is your bike?

Sounds like something I need to do as I ride in the rain a lot.

Dave

mine is a 1999 and I think the 1999-2000 are the years where the test block can cause you some problems. You can read more about it under the important/useful thread.

Mine is a 2000 model and it is only the 99 and 2000 models that are affected

Aaaaa, thats why I cant find that plug!

Porterb123,

Thanks for taking the time to for pictures and information on the wire loom fix. I just picked up a 2000 Bird and the FI light would glow with the operation of the turn signal or high beam. I did take the connector apart and cleaned out the corrosion and there have been no other incidents of the FI light coming on with other components. Not sure how long the cleaning will work so I appreciate the hard wire fix information.

I agree that was some mighty detailed work!!! I had that same problem on my 00 blackbird and I tried to read a previous post and got sorta confused.. So I just found the loom and did a major cleaning on it.. But no problem since, but I will save this post just in case... Great work, and awesome detail.....