Hi
My 2005 GS has always started first press of the button. I drove it this morning no problems with running.
At home I then had the panels off to to wire a feed from high beam to the sidelight relay. The wire was fed down the fuel pump side of the tank so I was doing a bit of pushing and pulling in that area, but nothing too much.
The bike then refused to start - it turned over fine, but wouldn't fire at all - no warnings on display.
I took the panels back off and had a listen to the pump. On ignition switch-on I could hear a ticking, and strangely on switch-off the ticking was there again (does the pump depressurise on switch off?). The exact location of the ticking was hard to locate - even with ear against the tank it wasn't clear where it was coming from. However, I assume there is nothing else on the bike that ticks, so I am guessing the fuel pump was fine.
I was then idly wiggling the wires on top when I accidentally hit the quick relase on the fuel pipe so it popped up. I pushed it back down and the bike started.
Any ideas? The ticking, and the fact the bike didn't at least run for a short while leads me to believe the pump is fine, but I am not sure what else it could be?
Possibly relevant info - 1) I filled up with petrol about 10 miles from home this morning. 2) The exterior of the controller looked a bit weathered, but no worse that 4 months ago when I took it out and covered the joining faces with silicone sealant.
cheers
Darren
My 2005 GS has always started first press of the button. I drove it this morning no problems with running.
At home I then had the panels off to to wire a feed from high beam to the sidelight relay. The wire was fed down the fuel pump side of the tank so I was doing a bit of pushing and pulling in that area, but nothing too much.
The bike then refused to start - it turned over fine, but wouldn't fire at all - no warnings on display.
I took the panels back off and had a listen to the pump. On ignition switch-on I could hear a ticking, and strangely on switch-off the ticking was there again (does the pump depressurise on switch off?). The exact location of the ticking was hard to locate - even with ear against the tank it wasn't clear where it was coming from. However, I assume there is nothing else on the bike that ticks, so I am guessing the fuel pump was fine.
I was then idly wiggling the wires on top when I accidentally hit the quick relase on the fuel pipe so it popped up. I pushed it back down and the bike started.
Any ideas? The ticking, and the fact the bike didn't at least run for a short while leads me to believe the pump is fine, but I am not sure what else it could be?
Possibly relevant info - 1) I filled up with petrol about 10 miles from home this morning. 2) The exterior of the controller looked a bit weathered, but no worse that 4 months ago when I took it out and covered the joining faces with silicone sealant.
cheers
Darren
