Electrical Help!!!!
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Electrical Help!!!!
I need some advice on where to start looking at an electrical issue, and I'm hoping someone here, with more experience or knowledge, can point me in the right direction. I have an '00 sporty 883 to 1200 conversion. It was running fine up until a couple weeks ago, when I got a new rear tire put on. A day later, I'm cruising at about 70 mph, and it starts cuttin out like it wasn't getting fuel. I downshift and keep the RPMs high and everything runs good enough to limp over to a friend's house. As I downshift to enter the driveway, the bike stalls. Pop the clutch and fires right back up. The bike then runs fine while I look for any loose wiring. Then dies about 3 minutes later. I notice the spark plug wires are corroded a bit butnot bad enough to cause this.Bike fires up later that nightand really didn't give me much trouble on the ride home or the other couple rides that I got in last week and this week, until last night.
So last night, I figured I'd ride out and get the new plug wires. I didn't getmore than 5 miles down the road. It startedchugging and sputtering like crazy, and then stalls leavingme stranded on the side of the road. I fidget withall sorts of wires but nothing seemed loose.It fires back up a couple minutes later. I get rolling and I notice the speedo needle cuttin' in and out, and the milage readout turning on and off, but they were not doing it in sinc with each other. Some times the bike would be running fine with the gauges going crazy, and sometimes the bike would be sputteringwith the gauges workingfine.
Any ideas of where to start looking? I'm not great with electrical issues, so any help will be greatly appreciated.
So last night, I figured I'd ride out and get the new plug wires. I didn't getmore than 5 miles down the road. It startedchugging and sputtering like crazy, and then stalls leavingme stranded on the side of the road. I fidget withall sorts of wires but nothing seemed loose.It fires back up a couple minutes later. I get rolling and I notice the speedo needle cuttin' in and out, and the milage readout turning on and off, but they were not doing it in sinc with each other. Some times the bike would be running fine with the gauges going crazy, and sometimes the bike would be sputteringwith the gauges workingfine.
Any ideas of where to start looking? I'm not great with electrical issues, so any help will be greatly appreciated.
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RE: Electrical Help!!!!
Had the same problem on a WG a few years ago. Check all the wiring and bolts at the coil. They had never been tightened down from the factory. Tightening up solved the entire problem.
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RE: Electrical Help!!!!
Do you live in the Bermuda Triangle? 
It seems like there are a lot of unrelated issues. My first thought was the onboard computer, if there is one. But I would first check the ground. Maybe they disconnected it when they did your tire, and didn't tighten it enough???
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It seems like there are a lot of unrelated issues. My first thought was the onboard computer, if there is one. But I would first check the ground. Maybe they disconnected it when they did your tire, and didn't tighten it enough???[align=left] [/align]
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RE: Electrical Help!!!!
ORIGINAL: DaveJ
Do you live in the Bermuda Triangle? It seems like there are a lot of unrelated issues. My first thought was the onboard computer, if there is one. But I would first check the ground. Maybe they disconnected it when they did your tire, and didn't tighten it enough???
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Do you live in the Bermuda Triangle?
It seems like there are a lot of unrelated issues. My first thought was the onboard computer, if there is one. But I would first check the ground. Maybe they disconnected it when they did your tire, and didn't tighten it enough???[align=left] [/align]
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[align=left]Strange, I wouldn't think the coil would impact the speedo. It sounded like a lot of unrelated systems were impacted, which is why I thought it was a computer or ground problem. But that's why I like these forums, you get a lot of good, and sometimes obscure, information!
Just curious though, did they by any chance explain how the coil interacted with the speedo?
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Just curious though, did they by any chance explain how the coil interacted with the speedo?
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I think (it was about 6 years ago) they said that it was f*cking with the computer.
I think (it was about 6 years ago) they said that it was f*cking with the computer.
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RE: Electrical Help!!!!
Thanks.[sm=smiley20.gif] I'll check that tonight when I get home. When it first started happening, I immediately thought that there was some possible blockage in the fuel system and faulty plug wires. But since I noticed the gauge yesterday, I know it is somewhere in the wiring, and Iwas uncertainas to whether coil/battery/ignition. I was going to ride to work today.....Got less than a mile from home and the speedometer demon started rearing it's ugly head again...so back to the house grab the truck. [sm=smiley19.gif] I was already running late for work, and I didn't feel like getting stuck on the side on a rural 2 lane highway with Semi's flyin' by. [sm=badidea.gif]
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