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Half way there, then. That's good
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Have you tried just running a bit of spare wire from the Negative battery terminal to the earth on the bulb holder?
Its just a quick simple way to check for a bad earth, By giving it a good earth and seeing what happens.

Also check your getting a good contact from the bulb to the bulb holder,

You did`nt mention the age/mileage of your bike, But mine is 1990 and i`m just starting to get some broken down wiring, Mainly on earth wires,

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Have you tried just running a bit of spare wire from the Negative battery terminal to the earth on the bulb holder? Pete
Hi Pete

Bike = TT600RE Year 2003

I’ve just run an earth wire from the battery to the bulb holder, still the same, no headlight. But, with the handle-bar switch in my hand and not on the bars, the high beam light on the dash was flashing on-and-off as I moved it about. Now I’m thinking it’s possibly a broken wire, so I’ll have a look and report back.

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Hi Pete

Now I’m thinking it’s possibly a broken wire, so I’ll have a look and report back.

Shaun
Sounds like you've found it to me.

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I have a TT600RE too, same year, 2003.

and last summer i had a very similar problem as yours.
no headlight, high beam lights on dash ON, etc... after a long time spent trying to understand all the possibilities, it turned out to be the bulb-holder that needed to be replaced.

as per the oil level increasing or decreasing when the bike is not used, it's normal.
the important is to make sure you don't have too much oil in the engine... especially after running it for 20 minutes.

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it turned out to be the bulb-holder
Funny you should say that, about two hours before you made that posting I did two tests.

Unplugged the headlight unit
Jammed two bits of wire in the female sockets
Yellow high beam and black neutral
Picked up just the bulb
Touched the wires
LIGHT

With the unplugged the headlight unit, I did this.

Put bulb back in
Red and black wires wrapped round the battery terminals
Touched the correct parts of the bulb and LIGHT
Took the neutral from the bulb and touched the neutral on the holder, nothing

Got a very small screwdriver, and then bent the copper strip that’s moulded in the plastic on the holder out a little. Then I rubbed down the small strip with sand paper round a match stick.

Plugged it all in
Started the bike
LIGHT – high and low

This whole thread was about 1 spark plug and 1 bulb holder

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It's always the little things that get us in the end.

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