sn0winSaskatoon
Tuned and Synch'ed
my reasonably new (but 2007) B11 has recently developed what I'm guessing is some sort of electrical glitch.
So I turn the key, instruments light up, there's a soft whirring sound (fuel pump or something I think?) and I push the starter. There's a little thump or clunk and the bike goes dead. Or maybe nothing happens and I push the starter a second time and then the bike goes dead. Or sometimes it either starts or goes dead on the 3rd press of the starter button - it seems to be a bit random. So when it goes dead, I turn off the key, turn it on again, and sometimes the lights do their thing again, and maybe it starts this time, or maybe not...
Two or 3 times so far, it's just been dead, dead , dead. Each of those times up to now, I've lifted the seat and checked the fusebox - everything seems fine and I went over it quickly by eye and with my multi-tester and the connections looked okay and there was no obvious short, and it's not blowing any fuses... So I press on the fuses a bit, try to start it again and so far, I've been able to get it going every time. Which makes me wonder whether the fuses are just vibrating loose? But wouoldn't I be blowing them in that case? Perhaps duct tape is the answer? (a very canadian fix, if anyone has ever seen the "red green show").
So the only problem so far is that I lose the clock settings and whatever I had on there since I last hit the trip meter (which is nice to keep track of fuel since the fuel gauge seems to be rather "creative" in its approximation to reality). So it's a bit of a pain because I have to reset the clock and stuff, but it just makes me worry, as I have a long trip planned for a month from now to go to the west coast and down into the USA and the last thing I want is to be stranded in the middle of montana or something with a dead italian bike and no service for 1500 km in any direction...
any thoughts or advice?
Ian
So I turn the key, instruments light up, there's a soft whirring sound (fuel pump or something I think?) and I push the starter. There's a little thump or clunk and the bike goes dead. Or maybe nothing happens and I push the starter a second time and then the bike goes dead. Or sometimes it either starts or goes dead on the 3rd press of the starter button - it seems to be a bit random. So when it goes dead, I turn off the key, turn it on again, and sometimes the lights do their thing again, and maybe it starts this time, or maybe not...
Two or 3 times so far, it's just been dead, dead , dead. Each of those times up to now, I've lifted the seat and checked the fusebox - everything seems fine and I went over it quickly by eye and with my multi-tester and the connections looked okay and there was no obvious short, and it's not blowing any fuses... So I press on the fuses a bit, try to start it again and so far, I've been able to get it going every time. Which makes me wonder whether the fuses are just vibrating loose? But wouoldn't I be blowing them in that case? Perhaps duct tape is the answer? (a very canadian fix, if anyone has ever seen the "red green show").
So the only problem so far is that I lose the clock settings and whatever I had on there since I last hit the trip meter (which is nice to keep track of fuel since the fuel gauge seems to be rather "creative" in its approximation to reality). So it's a bit of a pain because I have to reset the clock and stuff, but it just makes me worry, as I have a long trip planned for a month from now to go to the west coast and down into the USA and the last thing I want is to be stranded in the middle of montana or something with a dead italian bike and no service for 1500 km in any direction...
any thoughts or advice?
Ian