Custom mounted electronics, What is causing a short?

[rich_mcd]

Hey guys,
I recently mounted my starter solenoid, reserve lighting and safety relay into a metal box mounted under my swing arm along with all my fuses. Once I did this, everytime I turned the ignition on, it blows the fuse.
Does the starter solenoid need to be rubber mounted, or the whole box in general maybe?

 

[retiredgentleman]

Since you have moved all the wiring, you now have a short circuit. Just do some detective work, looking carefully at every wire. Do you have grommits at every point where wires exit th enclosure? A VOM (use the low ohm scale) and a wiring diagram are the tools to use to find the short.

 

[rich_mcd]

When I take the electronics out of the box it works fine. I didn't know if the components needed to have grommets on them

 

[Inked Monkey]

Sounds like you just have a wire that is contacting the metal box. My components don't have rubber grommets.

 

[Q Tip]

on the stock bike the battery box that mounts these components is rubber mounted while the battery negative grounds to the frame.

 

[visimpact]

I had a similar problem and it ended up being a bad ign switch. I was running one of those universal car ones and every time I went to crank it over blew a fuse. Are u running a on off one or a aftermarket car type ignition?