Motorcycle Repair: 98 hugger, fuse one, chris answer

Question
QUESTION: I was riding today for about an hour, gassed up about a mile from my hour and headed home, shifted up into was cruising in 4th when the bike cut off. When I swapped my spare 15A fuse in it to poped immmeadiatly. Ignition fuse. Thought that mabe some of the upper wiring or my switches were bad. Fuse pops as soon as you flip the kill switch to the ON posision. Rulled out a bad switch by simulating the switch on the lower wiring harness (cut the shething and wired the white and black and touched it to the gray) with the same result. Any ideas? Thank you ~chris

ANSWER: You are going to have to start at the fuse and look for a loose connection or a bare wire that is touching metal. Just keep following the wire until you locate it.
Good luck and happy riding
Mike

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QUESTION: Could it be a short somewhere on the back side of the fuse? One side of the fuse is a grey wire going all the way to the Kill switch. Can't find a short anywhere there. The other side of the fuse is a Black and red wire that goes to that 30A fuse or a bad starting relay. Could the problem be with that 30A fuse or the starting relay?

ANSWER:  If the short was on the side of the 30A fuse or is the relay was bad that fuse would blow. Once you get to the kill switch you have to keep going. the kill switch sends power to the coil and ignition. You have to keep following it.
Mike

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QUESTION: Alright so I pulled the tank off and opened up the entire main wiring harness and still can't find a short. I swapped out the starter relay and bank angle sensor(any way to test the angle sensor?). to no avail. I jumped the kill switch wires to simulate the switch 6" from the breaker and still popped it. Couldn't find any bare, crushed or cooked wires anywhere. Could the the actual ignition switch be popping the breaker? All 3 wires looked good. Ofcourse every wire I've looked at looks good and ohm out fine. I've tested about everything but the key ignition. wasn't sure how to do that. The only thing that doesn't match up in the wiring schematic is that i have a T2000 timing module instead of the stock one and it isn't connected to the stock timing sensor. That plug is just empty on the bottom of the frame. I'm pretty much at a loss.

Answer
There is no test for the bank angle that you can do. You have to test it with a new one.
Here is how I locate a back wire or connection. Start by disconnecting all the plugs that are plugged in on that circuit. Leave the fuse out and just touch a jumper wire across where the fuse goes. If you dont get a big spark then you know that you have gotten rid of the short. You can also disconnect the ignition switch and reconnect each wire, one at a time and see if you get a spark. Connect, one at a time, the plugs until you get a spark an then you know that its int he section that you just connected
Good luck and happy riding
Mike