Jblaze

So I bought a 83 XVZ12Tdk from a friend who was the original owner with 18K miles on it. It’s been sitting in his garage for over 15 years after his last ride. Rusted gas tank, clog fuel, brake and clutch lines, carbs where a mess. After tearing the bike apart and getting it back together it’s running fine now. With the exception warning errors on the computer Mod. Oil, brake ,headlight and gas, All buy the way where intermittent. One step at a Time I decides to work on the dim headlight first, low beam was only getting 2.5 v to it, high beam work fine. Check the L/H switch, reserve lighting unit and cleaned all connectors. When I disconnected the CPU monitor, I still had a dim headlight only reading 2.6 volts which led me to believe the RLU was at fault. So I ordered a replacement on EBay,. In the meantime, I read on this site it may be a bad solder joint on the CPU monitor, so I removed it and resolder the connection joints and low and behold headlight works an no more warning lights. Thought this might be helpful to some experiencing the same problems.

Hello All, I sold my 1200 custom Harley Sportster and was looking for a cruiser since my wife wouldn't get on the bike anymore. I bought a 83 original XVZ12TDK from a friend who was the original owner and put 18k miles on it. He parked the bike in his garage and it sat there for over 15 years. Needless to say it wasn't running and after working on it for a few months I finally have it running. Still have electrical issues with the warning lights, sometimes its fine, other times there is always one error that stays on and that little red warning light drives me crazy. I'll try later to post about the issues on the proper forum. John