Afternoon All
I’ve got a bit of a problem with my 1150GS and seeing as it’s my only means of transport it’s a pretty serious problem! At the moment the bike is refusing to start – fuel pump whirls up, starter turns the engine over but it simply won’t catch. Once I’ve given it a few tries fuel starts to pour out of the balancer shaft that runs between the two header pipes – which doesn’t seem very healthy.
Everything was fine before I took the tank off yesterday afternoon – sized up a replacement plastic tank and then refitted the original tank.
The problems started this morning – rode the bike over to my parents house, bike started fine first thing this morning then whilst cruising at about 60mph I notice a big surge – similar to when a bike runs out of fuel. It only happened once then ran fine until I got to a set of traffic lights – filtered to the front of the queue and as I went to pull away the bike stalled but then fired up straight away although it then ran very rough all the way for the rest of the journey.
I’ve done a search for similar problems but can’t seem to find anything.
I have removed both plugs and checked for a spark – both are fine. I’ve checked that the throttle cables are correctly seated. I have QD connectors on my fuel lines and have checked that both are connected properly. Finally I have checked that the black rubber caps are fitted correctly to the throttle bodies. I’m now starting to think that it might be a serious problem but I’m out of ideas.
Anyone got any suggestions as to what could be causing the problem and how I should go about resolving it?
Any help very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
Adam
I’ve got a bit of a problem with my 1150GS and seeing as it’s my only means of transport it’s a pretty serious problem! At the moment the bike is refusing to start – fuel pump whirls up, starter turns the engine over but it simply won’t catch. Once I’ve given it a few tries fuel starts to pour out of the balancer shaft that runs between the two header pipes – which doesn’t seem very healthy.
Everything was fine before I took the tank off yesterday afternoon – sized up a replacement plastic tank and then refitted the original tank.
The problems started this morning – rode the bike over to my parents house, bike started fine first thing this morning then whilst cruising at about 60mph I notice a big surge – similar to when a bike runs out of fuel. It only happened once then ran fine until I got to a set of traffic lights – filtered to the front of the queue and as I went to pull away the bike stalled but then fired up straight away although it then ran very rough all the way for the rest of the journey.
I’ve done a search for similar problems but can’t seem to find anything.
I have removed both plugs and checked for a spark – both are fine. I’ve checked that the throttle cables are correctly seated. I have QD connectors on my fuel lines and have checked that both are connected properly. Finally I have checked that the black rubber caps are fitted correctly to the throttle bodies. I’m now starting to think that it might be a serious problem but I’m out of ideas.
Anyone got any suggestions as to what could be causing the problem and how I should go about resolving it?
Any help very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
Adam
. I’m embarrassed to say this but it was caused by the feckin side stand kill switch
. What’s worse is I’ve been caught out by this little gem before and had completely forgotten to check it
. Huge relief though as I was starting to think it was something really nasty. Must clean my bike more often.
