CLASS fix?

[Rottdoglover]

I just bought a 88 Venture. Love it but the air ride does not work and the display shows NOTHING. Pulled the white plug and checked all conections No voltage anywhere. Any ideas. Also, has anyone ever relaced the CLASS with manual gauges and switches? May sound lo-tech but Po' boys got lo-bucks. Thanks

[93 venture]

Did you check for power with the key switch in the acc. positions?

only time it has power to the Class,also the fuse box is a weak point on these bikes,the glass fuse holders will get weak and wont hold the fuse tight enought to make contact.

Dont give up on it,lots of cheap parts on ebay for this bike.

[sarges46]

There is also a fix for the error codes that may spring up. It's in the 1st gen tech library and easy to do.

[mbrood]

Although it only works in the ACC key position, isn't the fuse a blade type in a small box in front of the battery?

[GeorgeS]

Fuse, for CLASS system, is a Seperate Fuse Holder.

 

You have 5 fuse's on top of the Battery. ( glass type fuse's )

 

" ACC "

" Head "

"Ignition "

" Signal "

" Tail "

 

You have a second fuse holder unit, located forward, and a little right of the Battery, which has. ( 4 ATM type fuses inside. )

 

" Back - up" ( for the audio system)

" Audio, CB "

" Fan "

" Hazard "

 

The Class Fuse Holder, is a Seperate Unit, with just One fuse inside

( wires going into and out of this holder, are Red/Blue

[Rottdoglover]

A big thanks for the info and help. Found the seperate fuse and while pulling it out found a bad connection. Fixed it and voila, I have air ride that WORKS!!! Thanks again.

[Captainkirk]

Glad you got it working!

If it begins giving you error codes (it well may), this link in the tech section is a fantastic write up. It worked miracles on the CLASS unit I was working on, and wasn't that hard to to. Store it in your files; you may need it some day.

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=493

[lvsloan1]

We have a Venture Royale that has a Motortrike conversion. When we bought it, it was still wired for the class to operate ONLY in the "ACC" key position. This is so you can't air the shocks while riding as the owners manual says to have NO weight on the bike when doing this. Since ours is triked w/ rear air bags, we wanted to monitor & adjust air pressure while going down the road like the Goldwing trikes do. So I hooked a wire to the input of the class fuse from the accessory positive terminal in the fuse box on top of the battery. Now we can monitor and control the air system while riding.

[cabreco]

Spent 20 minutes today following the E4 error, CLASS fix write up. Pretty simple fix, works like a dream. Funny though, the solders didn't look bad enough to be a connectvity issue.

Anyway,

Thanks to the writer & all of you who pointed me to it!