Although to that point it runs 100% fine.
Problem materialsed after bike left out all day in a huge down pour in London. This may be co-incidental.
Engine died that evening after about 20 miles riding on my commute home. It died, as though the ignition was cut. If I tried to start it, it would fire a bit but not catch - no matter how many times I tried. But after a 20 minute wait it fired up and ran for 5 or so minutes, perfectly fine. But then died again. Again, wait 15 minutes, ran for 2 or 3 minutes.
Relayed to garage where they could make it fail. They did say when it failed clicking noises came from “just below the battery”. As tho there was a relay clicking in and out - but there are no relays there. They did a Hall Sensor test (the original suspect) and ran diagnostics in general – nothing failing. They did the Hall Sensor test when the engine was good, and when the engine had failed.
They pulled apart all the electrical connectors and squirted them with WD40.
Engine ran fine for a 20 minute test ride. Was told to pick bike up.
Then I got a call - engine just failed again in the same way whilst taking it out the garage. It had just ran for 2 minutes. Back to square one!
The bike is a 2002 1150 GSA with 55,000 on it and in a generally scruffy state. It is kept out side all year round. The wiring is tired, the outter sheaths on the wiring is failing in places (eg around the wiring up on the bars). I have not checked the status of the wiring under the panels, beneath the battery tray etc but can...
I had a GSA fail when the wiring loom shorted out against the battery tray, this one has the zip tie to pull it away from tray for sure.
Any ideas. Next step is either a new loom or a hall sensor - both big bucks and no guaranteed fix...
Problem materialsed after bike left out all day in a huge down pour in London. This may be co-incidental.
Engine died that evening after about 20 miles riding on my commute home. It died, as though the ignition was cut. If I tried to start it, it would fire a bit but not catch - no matter how many times I tried. But after a 20 minute wait it fired up and ran for 5 or so minutes, perfectly fine. But then died again. Again, wait 15 minutes, ran for 2 or 3 minutes.
Relayed to garage where they could make it fail. They did say when it failed clicking noises came from “just below the battery”. As tho there was a relay clicking in and out - but there are no relays there. They did a Hall Sensor test (the original suspect) and ran diagnostics in general – nothing failing. They did the Hall Sensor test when the engine was good, and when the engine had failed.
They pulled apart all the electrical connectors and squirted them with WD40.
Engine ran fine for a 20 minute test ride. Was told to pick bike up.
Then I got a call - engine just failed again in the same way whilst taking it out the garage. It had just ran for 2 minutes. Back to square one!
The bike is a 2002 1150 GSA with 55,000 on it and in a generally scruffy state. It is kept out side all year round. The wiring is tired, the outter sheaths on the wiring is failing in places (eg around the wiring up on the bars). I have not checked the status of the wiring under the panels, beneath the battery tray etc but can...
I had a GSA fail when the wiring loom shorted out against the battery tray, this one has the zip tie to pull it away from tray for sure.
Any ideas. Next step is either a new loom or a hall sensor - both big bucks and no guaranteed fix...
