The "Why" If ya dont know what your doin? You should Fcukin ask thread!

[DrFarkoff]

The "Why" If ya dont know what your doin? You should Fcukin ask thread!

Why do this? Says you

Cos you waste peoples time!!

Better than that Tell the spanner jockey the whole story !!!

A friend of mine has an an 1150 he tried changing a switch 6 months ago which did some damage and was repaired fairly simply and the wires up at the headstock all checked and a new switch and no faults EVERYTHING worked perfectly

5 months later.... Cue the weekend........... He decides to fit a Zumo and an autocom All of a sudden next morning the battery is flat so he buys a new battery

Everytime he turns on the key it trys to start itself!!!

So I collect it for him last night and have a look this morning

Number 1 the autocom wires are bared copper twisted around the WRONG wires !!! i.e neg on a pos and vice versa!

The results are now a pain in the rectal orifice!

All the wires that were fine are now burned I think it's cheaper now to do a loom job than to sit splitting the loom right back to the fusebox and repairing as I go!!

So IF you want to do something to your bike folks and you're not really sure??
Ask a question there may a piss take but it's gonna be cheaper and less embarassing than an all out up in flames job!!!!

And tell the truth Even it makes you look like a Dick it'll be cheaper in the long run for ya!

 

[JPR]

This has all the makings of a really interesting thread.

 

[(RIP) Proff]

This has all the makings of a really interesting thread.

Agreed ya ugly git



I do hope Snoopy sees it

 

[Stewart H]

Sometimes its best to put down the tools and step away from the motorcycle , I said that to myself this morning when I was making an adapter so that I can use a torque wrench to tighten my pannier wingnuts

Stewart

 

[Slowdown]

Mmm - I love these 'A friend did this really dumb thing' type threads.

 

[DrFarkoff]

I was rather good I haven't called him any bad names

I haven't told him to leave the spanners and sparks to me

I haven't told him That Under No Make that Zilch Nil Nada Circumstances is he allowed to approach this bike again with items of an electrical nature!!

I have told him I'm looking for a second hand main loom for a August 2009 R1150 GS single spark ABSII and right hand switch gear with ABS button light switch and Heated grips switch???? Anyone

 

[(RIP) Proff]

I was rather good I haven't called him any bad names

I haven't told him to leave the spanners and sparks to me

I haven't told him That Under No Make that Zilch Nil Nada Circumstances is he allowed to approach this bike again with items of an electrical nature!!

I have told him I'm looking for a second hand main loom for a August 2009 R1150 GS single spark ABSII and right hand switch gear with ABS button light switch and Heated grips switch???? Anyone

ARE you quite sure of the details

 

[DrFarkoff]

ARE you quite sure of the details

September 2000 as in 09 00

Silly Me

 

[its all poo]

would conectiing the autocom the wrong way burn out the wiring ?

 

[Bohsfc]

Looking at the pictures of the wires, was he using a blow torch instead of a soldering iron??????

 

[ronnie69]

"Your friend" had this trouble, did he .........

Methinks the lady doth protest too much



Just kidding. I am, like "your mate", a numpty with electrical gubbins, but like to think I'd have asked first in this situation. Good to have some encouragement to ask first, even at the expense of some p155 taking.




Is all that wirey stuff in my bike? Ooooooooh, well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs

 

[Mr K]

This is why I like new 'bikes.

 

[Padge]

So are we going to introduce a "Jaythro's Rule" similar to Timmy's Rule....

...Allowing people of sensitive nature to post technical questions without 5 subsequent pages of piss taking? (oil questions exempt )

 

[Steptoe]

All the wires that were fine are now burned I think it's cheaper now to do a loom job than to sit splitting the loom right back to the fusebox and repairing as I go!!

What did i tell you burnt wiring causing a short short..

 

[DrFarkoff]

What did i tell you burnt wiring causing a short short..

Yeah I was hoping you were gonna say it was the 321 combiner joint connection the flux capacitor gone a tad out of calibration

But Once the tankwas off the link wire for the continuous lights was somewhat hotter than it should have been some time in recent history

Okay Jaythros Rule ?? Hah I like that

My Own one before Thunder and Rob getin on the act Maketh thee Sure there be Lubricant in thine box



P.S. Steppers how did ya go with the lack of signal to the injectors ???

 

[Wrigsby1]

Maps and silence, anyone!?

I have even seen "auto electricians" make a feck of it as well re my T4 van.

Wait till he finds out about those autoswitch things

 

[Deleted acc oony]

It's the old story of someone spending a fiver to save a pound.

 

[Steptoe]

P.S. Steppers how did ya go with the lack of signal to the injectors ???

Well it's hard to know where to start when someone has burnt their loom to a cinder, and only half replaced a used one and then given it to me to finish.

Have they made a mistake doing their part, do i pull it all out and start again

Found the R/H switchgear light operation wasn't working, after double checking all through the wiring , plus BOTH headlight bulbs blown .

Turns out the intermitent pulse signal to the injectors was the moronic . Even when it did pulse the bike wouldn't start.

Anyway, all done. Another days tale in the workshop.

 

[DrFarkoff]

Thankfully it looks like the moronic in this bike is okay good sparks and good pulses with the Noid lamps

Just the wiring section of teh loom chomped thru I did contemplate running spur wires then thought NOPE cos you can never guess the damage inside the taped bits and If ya go to the trouble of stripping and re taping you could probably change it all in less time

Well it's hard to know where to start when someone has burnt their loom to a cinder, and only half replaced a used one and then given it to me to finish.

Have they made a mistake doing their part, do i pull it all out and start again

Found the R/H switchgear light operation wasn't working, after double checking all through the wiring , plus BOTH headlight bulbs blown .

Turns out the intermitent pulse signal to the injectors was the moronic . Even when it did pulse the bike wouldn't start.

Anyway, all done. Another days tale in the workshop.

 

[thornley]

I sold my old R80RT to a friend, lovely bike always well serviced and looked after. 3 months after the sale he telephoned to say it was smoking badly and a lot of noise from the engine. I asked if he'd done anything to the bike, 'only changed the oil'

Airhead owners know what's coming. He'd emptied the gearbox thinking it was the engine drain and then poured the required amount of oil into the engine filler. Empty gearbox, doubled up engine quantity. Luckily he hadn't rode any distance.

I won't give any names but he lives in Irlam the bike was blue 1985 and his name starts with a J.