Urgent help needed please

Tim Cullis

Tim Cullis

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In Morocco and Seatownmaster on a 2007 1200GS has a problem with bike cutting out. The bike goes through system check OK with no warning lights, starts OK and then splutters to a halt. Fuel quality is OK as others filled at same station. Currently starts OK after a tow to hotel at Azrou but worried about tomorrow.

Serious suggestions welcome.
 
May well be teaching everyone to suck eggs here but have you tried:

Pulling all the fuses and reinserting.
Tightening the battery terminals
Checking the earths are OK
No cables are caught or have anything obstructing them
Swapping tanks over with another bike to make sure that is really isn't the fuel (maybe there was water inthe tank)

I'm sure one of the tech minded guys will be along soon but these are what I'd try if stuck.

Good luck Tim
 
Symptoms sound exactly like what happened when my fuel pump controller failed. Intermittent failure - originally one or two short hiccups one day one, three or four failures on day two from one minutes to twenty minutes, then on day three total failure - started but stalls straight away.

It might be that water has fouled the contacts so a clean up might help, and can't do any harm. But I suspect a new controller will be required.

Good luck.
 
Trying to get back

Thanks to Tim for his help
I have sent Tim on his way to Daker to enjoy the sun...
Good news is Im in a nice hotel.
The bike only runs for 20mins at best so Im trying to get a truck to get me back to Tangier ferry and then to Malaga to meet up with BikeTruck and other riders for shipping back.
Thanks for all your comments. Ill let you know the out come.
First breakdown in 22yrs on a BM....bring back the old stuff I say.
Regards
Adrian (Seatownmaster)
 
Clive said:
Fuel pump gizmo.
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+1

This went on mine a couple of weeks ago. While waiting for recovery I would try to start it 'just in case'. Sometimes it would start, splutter for a few secs then die. Other times it wouldn't fire at all. Maybe gravity was letting enough fuel for a splutter. If you have a voltmeter you could check that current is getting through to the fuel pump.

Is it possible to wire the fuel pump direct bypassing the solenoid(?) thingy? I know this is a way to get going when then the starter motor solonoid(?) packs up on my Aprilia.
 
As everybody else says, it does really sound like symptoms of either a fuel pump or fuel pump controller failure. Doesn't really help you if you don't have the parts in Morocco. Should be easily fixed once you get it to Spain.
 
Seatownmaster said:
The bike only runs for 20mins at best so Im trying to get a truck to get me back to Tangier ferry and then to Malaga to meet up with BikeTruck and other riders for shipping back.

Regards
Adrian (Seatownmaster)
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I think there is a BMW main dealer in Marbella. BMW Euro Assist should take you here for a warrenty claim.


Good luck

Mike
 
don't know if it helps but....

last april i had a problem in morrocco with oil leaking out of the rear drive shaft.managed to get to the bmw dealer in sevelle they changed the drive shaft and had me back out the door in about 3 hours. they have good english speakers and could not have been any more help. Cutting the trip short after waiting so long for it would have been a totall pisser, hope you dont have to.


Adam
 
Seatownmaster said:
Thanks to Tim for his help
I have sent Tim on his way to Daker to enjoy the sun...
Good news is Im in a nice hotel.
The bike only runs for 20mins at best so Im trying to get a truck to get me back to Tangier ferry and then to Malaga to meet up with BikeTruck and other riders for shipping back.
Thanks for all your comments. Ill let you know the out come.
First breakdown in 22yrs on a BM....bring back the old stuff I say.
Regards
Adrian (Seatownmaster)
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Adrian,

Can you not take the bike to the dealer in Casablanca? Used them last year. They were excellent.
 
Fuel pump controller

Just a quick bump
Yes it was the Fuel pump controller! :blast
Never travel without a spare one if outside europe.

Thanks to you all and especially Tim Cullis for his help in getting us back to a warm fire and some where to sleep! :thumb2
Tim's knowledge of Morocco put us right in getting a Donkey and Truck back to Tangier. And also to my son Simon for towing my through the ice and snow in the dark on his Truimph Tiger :angel (great british bike you can rely on!) :beerjug: Yes we were in Marocco!

Thanks again to you all for the quick replies to our first posting. :clap

Oh my signoff should read trying to follow the cancelled Dakar
 
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