GPZList Digest, Vol 90, Issue 4

[Philip Hamm]

I am not a mechanic nor do I pretend to be one.  When I've had strange electrical gremlins with my GPZ it was because of a bad rectifier / voltage regulator.  I had strange gremlins twice - first time the rectifier needed replacement, second time the voltage regulator needed replacement.
Just an FYI not diagnosing your problem on the Internet just something to look out for.
-Philip Hamm

> Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 17:23:51 -0400
> From: dominatr37 <dominatr37 at optonline.net>
> Subject: Possible problem or problems
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> I just took the GPZ out for a day ride and came back with two issues.
> 
> 1) I noticed a few weeks ago that my horn was not blowing. I checked for 
> voltage at he wires found I had it and bought a new horn and installed it. 
> It all seemed good . Today I took it out beeped it once then noticed it 
> wasn't working.It did work on and off during the day.
> 
> 2) I also noticed today that my temperature gauge was not working 
> correctly.It never got up to normal operating temperature and would go up 
> and down when I revved the motor. I looked at the reservoir and it seemed to 
> have anti-freeze in it, I mean I saw green. There was no water leaking 
> anywhere on the bike and it ran perfectly fine. The guy riding with me said 
> he saw nothing leaking from the bike.
> 
> Now I'm not sure if I have some sort of grounding issue that's affecting 
> both the horn and the temp gauge. Either that or I really have two different 
> issues going on. I'll wait until the next nice day and strip the fairing off 
> looking for things that could be affecting everything.  Perhaps I have a 
> leak somewhere and never noticed it until now, but I don?t know.
> 
> Ralph L. Angelo, Jr.
> Author of cool stuff.
> http://RLAngeloJr.com