So this just happened.....
Riding the Road King (first gen Twin Cam era bike) last night and about 15 minutes from home it suddenly cuts out hard. First thought is it feels like what they do when a fuel filter is starting to be a problem. That thought was even more so when you add that it did this under acceleration; under a load.
Except.
The odometer reset from my mileage on this tank choice of the B setting back to the standard odometer setting at the same time. Or at least I thought it did. So if that happened it was an electrical problem and everything had momentarily shut off. It was still bright daylight so nothing I could obviously see in lights; especially when I wasn't looking.
About ten miles later sudden and hard cut out again. Then just a little later two more. I'm turned around and on my way home by this time. And the odometer was resetting. It's electrical and total. At least that's what the bike is telling me; and it's got no reason t lie.
Compound all this with that the night before I'd had the tank off. Bored in the time of Coronavirus I'd decided it was time to put a coat of wax on the dark read powder coated rocker boxes.
When something starts happening right after work is done I always blame the work first. Directly or indirectly. That's a safer bet than assuming the work is perfect and, just oh so coincidentally, something else started going wrong right immediately after it was just worked on.
So I'm worried about a pinch on the harness or just moving the main harness brought a problem with a broke wire inside that just started showing up because it was moved. Maybe something at the ignition switch just because it had touched, its harness handled, whatever. Had the coil on and off under the tank. So maybe its harness or a problem there. Who knows.
Yeah, who knows. There was no code. I expected to have to spend hours tracking it down. Humbug.
But.......