| Author | Message | ||
     Rocketsprink |
Now, I've hit the rev limiter in the past, so I know what it does, and so forth. Here is the problem, TWICE today while out riding, I KNOW I was NOWHERE NEAR the red line. I fact once was pulling off the highway to an exit ramp. In 5th gear, doing about 70mph, let off the gas and the bike pukes! I look at the gauges, the engine lite is on and the dials are doing their dance from one side of the face to the other. I pull in the clutch, and about 2 seconds later, everything is ok. Weird thing is the milage rests to zero ( not odometer, DAMN IT!) but the trips due and the clock rests to 1:00. WTF!! I know I didn't hit the limiter!! Any ideas? Back to the dealer for warranty work? It's a 2004 12S if that makes a difference. Have had no other problems till now. Any ideas? | ||
| Spyder12s |
check your battery connection ...and other connections ..some thing shook loose | ||
| Darthane |
Battery, battery, battery. Even if the terminals LOOK alright, take them off and clean them good, then torque them back down. The negative connection has a bad tendency to corrode underneath the terminal. Chances are you've got just enough corrosion under there to cause an intermittent cut-out, which will cause all the symptoms you described. | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
Sprink, pull the front flyscreen off and look at the horn, and follow the wire back. There was a Recall for that wire cause it would chaffe against the mounting bolt for the horn. When it shorts out it shorts out the whole system which is why they recalled it. | ||
| Lpowel02 |
i had this happens a few times before with my 9R...cleaned off the terminals and tightened them again and everything was ok. | ||
| BadS1 |
Wycked your right about that but in his case it would kill the whole bike and you wouldn't be able to start it again unless you replace the ignition fuse.That recall I found out about 2 weeks after I bought it roadside.Found the fuse replaced it but the next time I hit the horn wire BAMMM!!!lOST ALL POWER.Strange thing is it doesn't blow the horn fuse it blows the ignition fuse.I'm with Darthane on this one,battery cables. | ||
| Kaese |
Had the same problem on my 9R, the Ignition Fuse had jiggled loose. I have even swapped the gauge cluster with another bike and the mileage refuses to reset. Darn! | ||
| Rocketsprink |
Thanks for the input. I had the horn recall thing taken care of before. The battery terminals where not loose enough to move by hand, but when I went to take the bolts out they backed out like butter!! And there was some crap on the terminals. Cleaned everything up and so far so good. Thanks for the help. | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
Dana, had a guy in pheonix that didn't know about the problem his was nicked just enough that it would do just as Sprink said. put heatshrink over the nick, and a few washers under the nyloc to cover the bolt and he didn't have a problem after that at all. It never blew any of the fuses though. | ||
| BadS1 |
That horn wire was exactly the same thing with mine Wycked but it shut my bike down 100%.You'd have to do a search but there is a thread that has pictures of my fix,I think it was back in August of last year right before the 100th Anniversary.Damn I've had this thing a year already. | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
I know that was what prompted me to check his. |
