brucewayne
Registered user
Well I bought my GS about 4 months ago and after riding it the 120 miles back from Kent I stripped her down for a cosmetic rebuild, which she needed badly.
Some 2 months later and looking much sparklier I began riding it only to find a nest of electrical probs. The bike had an off at some point in it's life and I thought I'd replaced all the visible signs of this. What I missed was the tiny pilot bulb for the main beam which had shorted out and burnt all the way through the loom once I'd operated main beam a few times.
So I ordered a second hand loom and spent another 2 weeks of evenings after work taking the old one out and putting this "new" one in.
It was all in and fitted today and ready for the first fire up.
Turn, turn, turn....nothing, no firing. So I check electrics related to the Motronic. It turned out that the main black connector block from the motronic had a tiny orange wire severed, easy I thought...but there was hardly anything left of it to form a connection. So I stripped back the heavy duty rubber sheathing which is near the wide connector plug.
This was almost brain surgery, but I managed to get a tiny bit more orange wire out which allowed me to pinch a bullet connector on and make a diy connection. Sweat pouring at this point, I slowly reassembled, tank on and fired up again.
Got her to fire this time but only ran with manual revving and died at tickover. Because of how rough she sounded, I'm guessing she is only running on one cylinder now.
Tank off, check all wiring again, and checked other obvious ones like the throttle cables snagging...back together again and started.
Still firing on one cylinder.
I'm f***kin knackered now and completely fed up with the site of this bike which has taken over 80 hours of time from me and my young family and is not a goer. In despair I have pulled the garage door down and don't want to see it again.
Thought I'd come on here and give the keyboard a bashing as I need a good cry!
Here is the loom I bought second hand advertised as from a 1997 GS the same as mine.
The only things I am left wondering about this blasted bike now are:
Would the ECU need resetting after all this electrical work?
If it was from another/older model (not as advertised) would it present these problems?
Some 2 months later and looking much sparklier I began riding it only to find a nest of electrical probs. The bike had an off at some point in it's life and I thought I'd replaced all the visible signs of this. What I missed was the tiny pilot bulb for the main beam which had shorted out and burnt all the way through the loom once I'd operated main beam a few times.
So I ordered a second hand loom and spent another 2 weeks of evenings after work taking the old one out and putting this "new" one in.
It was all in and fitted today and ready for the first fire up.
Turn, turn, turn....nothing, no firing. So I check electrics related to the Motronic. It turned out that the main black connector block from the motronic had a tiny orange wire severed, easy I thought...but there was hardly anything left of it to form a connection. So I stripped back the heavy duty rubber sheathing which is near the wide connector plug.
This was almost brain surgery, but I managed to get a tiny bit more orange wire out which allowed me to pinch a bullet connector on and make a diy connection. Sweat pouring at this point, I slowly reassembled, tank on and fired up again.
Got her to fire this time but only ran with manual revving and died at tickover. Because of how rough she sounded, I'm guessing she is only running on one cylinder now.
Tank off, check all wiring again, and checked other obvious ones like the throttle cables snagging...back together again and started.
Still firing on one cylinder.
I'm f***kin knackered now and completely fed up with the site of this bike which has taken over 80 hours of time from me and my young family and is not a goer. In despair I have pulled the garage door down and don't want to see it again.
Thought I'd come on here and give the keyboard a bashing as I need a good cry!
Here is the loom I bought second hand advertised as from a 1997 GS the same as mine.
The only things I am left wondering about this blasted bike now are:
Would the ECU need resetting after all this electrical work?
If it was from another/older model (not as advertised) would it present these problems?
