I have a fa5 dct transmission and when i replace the angle sensor its fine and when i park it and start and try to shift the sensor is bad again.I have had 3 sensors all oem and something is ruining them.Do i have a short?I live in the country and nobody will touch this.They don't want anything to do with electric shift and i've been trying to fix this for 7 weeks and summer is here,please help.I have new battery and good shift motor and check alot of connections that i could get apart.Also it went from code 23 to a code 22 same thing angle sensor but different problem.

 

I had the same problem on an old Rubicon. The wiring had rodent damage. I repaired it as best I could but afterwards, it would keep eating angle sensors. They had a totally different gearbox, so probably little in common with your fault. I gave up and sent it to a Honda dealer, who couldn't find the fault either, but put on a used wiring harness and this cured it.

 

Thanks that's what honda said for me to look for.I do have a nest by the battery and the two small wires that go to the solenoid were bare. I put black tape on them but waiting on another sensor .I'm not good with a multimeter otherwise I probably could narrow it down.

 

I did have two bare wires from the starter solinoid touching and i put electrical tape on them.Would that have antthing to do with burning out sensors?

 

No, the solenoid wires are almost always the first to get rodent damage, they must taste better than the rest of the wiring. Handy, as owners find the bike won't start and fetch it for us to repair, before much else has been eaten as a rule. However, I would guess you have a damaged wire somewhere else, which is causing problems with the angle sensor. The latest model Hondas have wiring systems more complex than a 1990s car, extremely difficult to trace what is wrong, and those codes don't help much. Makers really should take into account the environment their bikes are used in, and go for simple wiring circuits, preferably well screened against rodent damage. The "funnel" under the back of the seat is a particularly silly idea from Honda, as bags of feed stuff placed on the rear rack, leak into the funnel where it can only go into the battery box. Honda dealers used to put a plastic sheet under the funnel on old model 420s, which deflects things away from the battery box. So Honda made sure the funnel goes too far into the battery box to do that on new model 420s.

 

so if i bring it to a honda dealer he can't do anything with a diagnostic test?I can't find any problems with the wires myself.The closet dealer is over 100 miles ,this sucks.

 

Who knows? Dealers have a computer interface rather than the simple Morse code you get by jumping wires, but on the odd occasion I have tried sending a bike to a dealer for computer diagnosis, all they have come up with is exactly the same fault code. They do have testers for individual circuits that they can pug in, in place of the ECU, so can test the wires to the ECU better but, in the manual, it looks a slow, laborious and therefore, expensive job.