'00 SRX700 electrical issues

I am having the same exact problems with my '02 viper. Its really frustrating and a bear to figure out. I have yet to find a fix to the problem. Please let me know when you get that sled fixed and i will do the same on my end, so maybe we can help one another out.
 
Scootertrash said:
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Update.

Just did the RPM test suggested by MrViper700. Sled gets 8500rpms no problem whether the headlights are plugged in or not.
I was running on a sod field so it was bumpy, but not "trail" bumpy. Sled ran great. No missing or sputtering. it was bumpy ditch/road shoulder riding to the sod field, about 4 miles each way.

So can I safely assume the stator is good?

Am I back to searching for rub thrus again?

Also today had this:
tach will work with high beam on but drop to 0 when it hits 1000 or so rpms on the tach. lights are dim. both headlights plugged in.

tach will not work on low beam

These tests are as you are sitting on the sled:
Unplug the right headlight everything is as described above

Plug the right headlight back in and unplug the left headlight: everything works normal except for repeated operation of the hi/lo switch results in intermittently killing the tach or the tach may drop to 0 for a second and go back up to idle.

Holding the brake in does not change this scenario.

It seems to me that I have tracked the problem down to the left headlight socket or wiring or the high/lo switch.
I am going to peel back the tape for the headlight splice to see if anything is bad with the wiring there.

I have the same guys 99 Mountain Max 600 here. The hi/lo switches have different part numbers, but are they interchangable?

Any other suggestions are welcome and appreciated
Thanks guys!
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sorry, had not seen this reply.

the headlight switch doing the tach and stuff all goofy is usually the tell tale sign the harness is chaffed and the wires are touching on the harness, either to ground-frame or to each other.
At this point, honestly... if it were me working on it, I would pull the harness that you rerouted and go over each and every single wire, one or 2 of them sounds like to me is bare and just enough to contact the other one, sometimes the rub thru is small and just barely exposes the copper wire and the next wire over contacts it and it reverts the power back thru the wrong wire and does all this crazy stuff.

if you find nothing else all you have left is the stator, but.... I have NEVER seen a bad stator give you full rpm and make the light and tach go goofy, especially when you change from low to high beam, thats a sure indicator of a wire touching another wire. Its from feedback voltage from one circuit to another that I have found.
 
does the coolant light blink 3 times upon start up? what about when the light switch is on low beam? then hi beam and you start it up?
 
DUDE, I HAD SAME PROBLEM WITH MY 2000 SRX I BOUGHT NEW AND STILL HAVE. EVERYTHING WENT HAIRWIRE. KEEP LOOKING FOR A RUB SOME WHERE. 3:16 (yammie tony)
 
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