Fine counsel. Though £30 seems only to get a used one (and I definitely already have one of those), so I’m likely to be down £60. It’s going to be difficult to fit it with all my fingers crossed.
Ordered part through Motomecca website on Monday night. Apart from a confirmation email, not a whole lot of helpful communication since. Contrasts with many other sites which tell you if someone even sneezed near your goods.
I used Competition Sytems for sensors in the past. Not sure how much they charge for the SEN8I these days. It was about £32 plus. Motomecca are quite good if in stock. I get stuff in a jiffy bag by next day in the generally geographically challenging areas north of IV1 for courier companies.
Winge alert: Carriage by Royal Mail is a pleasure. By UPS or DHL, et al, pay over the odds and forget any sensible delivery date.
Once a year (literally last year and this when miles form home on the National Road rally) mine starts all day and then refuses too UNTIL I pull the relays glare and swear at them and put them back.
I thought I’d fixed after last years misbehaving by buying a set of Pyro Dan Relays but still did it.
Still might be worth checking though
My “current” theory is that a lot of high speed running, a bit like you, unseats them enough to stop the bike starting tris2014-07-10 13:22:03
There are still electrical connectors that can get crudded up with oxides, OK sure I’d pull them out but then squirt the sockets with WD40 before putting them back in. And before anyone starts, yes I know WD40 is not a contact cleaner, that is not the reason why I would be using it here, but it will help keep the corrosion off the metal connectors. A case of what is the lesser of two evils.
I’ve threatened, cajoled, begged, disconnected, reconnected, tested, retested, swapped and generally buggered about. Everything is much cleaner now. I’ve run the battery down twice. No sign of a spark. Does 9.4V at both Coils sound right? What happened to the 12.3V I can see across the battery terminals? I’ve got tuppence in the bank. Will this get me a decent auto-electrician, I wonder.
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What happened to the 12.3V I can see across the battery terminals?
Good question! Summink still not right here.
Appendix: might indicate cruddy ignition switch or terminals? Also ignition supply goes through kill switch and its connectors (plug-block?) so a long chain of things that can go wrong.
Er, I thought so but not sure now! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal I am reminded that a while back I saw on a TV proggie that the magnetic North pole is currently wandering about over Northern Canada or somewhere, as though it can't make its mind up where to settle Reason for edit: word missing
Mike H2014-07-11 12:07:27
A couple of thoughts for you - but if you done them just ignore me
Have you done a voltage drop test on the battery? Halfrauds can do it in a minute
Have you checked all the earths for tightness and cleanness. IIRC there’s one on the digiplex box
Finding where you loose the volts sounds like a good plan.
THIS LINK might help
9v at the coils isnt great…I wld see if I can by pass the ignition switch and get a good feed straight to the coils, see what occurs…ign switches do loose volts with age…and just perhaps thats all it is.
Roy
Have you fitted a new crank sensor?
m.f.
I presume you tested Volts at battery and coils with it all turned on? And hence got the difference? Re battery drop idea...
That’s a useful article. Have been getting all sorts of odd voltages/resistances so there may be much to read in there. Just dismantled the relay/fuse section and saturated all connections with contact cleaner. Kind of a last hope - though some might say it should have been my first step…
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I tried. The part I ordered didn’t look right, so I didn’t use it. I’m trying to get a refund - if the supplier would just reply to my emails.
The good news is that after a damn good thrashing of the fuses/relays with contact cleaner there is life, and hope. I had to resist the urge to start her up at 3am, just to see if she would still go.