A common start to a thread hereabouts, it seems. Hello everybody, I'm new here, I've had a 1973 R75/5 for years, now I just picked up a 2001 1150GS that has had a sad, hard life for the last few years. It got abandoned in a friend's leaky, damp garage for some years, then when he moved house it was transferred to another friend who "stored" in out in the open in his farmyard for some years more.
Loads of stuff to deal with, mostly just hard work and time to bring it back up to scratch. Compression seems fine, so it's saveable. For the moment I've got it hanging around thinking about its life choices.
But, main question - it has the same wiring sheath problem these all have, to a really bad extent - not just the handlebar sub-looms, but most of the main loom has fallen apart. I'd be OK with re-wrapping, but I think that the sheath failing has allowed a lot of water into the loom, and corroded a bunch of stuff. The diagnostic port, for example, isn't getting 12v, even though 12v is leaving the fuse box, and the only thing between the two is a sealed junction inside the main loom.
So, I'm sort of resigned to pulling the whole loom off and going through it carefully to replace what I find. But before I start, are there any specialists making new looms for these bikes? I can find second-hand ones, but that might just be buying more problems to fix, so that's very much a fall-back solution if the current loom proves to be un-saveable.
(I was going to insert a mildly amusing photo of the poor old sod hanging from a two-post lift in the shed, but I can't see how to upload a local photo, so you'll just have to imagine that.)
Loads of stuff to deal with, mostly just hard work and time to bring it back up to scratch. Compression seems fine, so it's saveable. For the moment I've got it hanging around thinking about its life choices.
But, main question - it has the same wiring sheath problem these all have, to a really bad extent - not just the handlebar sub-looms, but most of the main loom has fallen apart. I'd be OK with re-wrapping, but I think that the sheath failing has allowed a lot of water into the loom, and corroded a bunch of stuff. The diagnostic port, for example, isn't getting 12v, even though 12v is leaving the fuse box, and the only thing between the two is a sealed junction inside the main loom.
So, I'm sort of resigned to pulling the whole loom off and going through it carefully to replace what I find. But before I start, are there any specialists making new looms for these bikes? I can find second-hand ones, but that might just be buying more problems to fix, so that's very much a fall-back solution if the current loom proves to be un-saveable.
(I was going to insert a mildly amusing photo of the poor old sod hanging from a two-post lift in the shed, but I can't see how to upload a local photo, so you'll just have to imagine that.)
be sure to click on “Insert” labelled button in each photo and select “Full Image” once you chose your photographs to attach. Otherwise all we see is a poor quality tiny little image. Yes we can click on it, but that’s not fun from my point of view, as it opens a separate window. 
