Graaaahhhhh buggery FXR bollocks

**Milky** · 27th October 2004, 09:02

Originally Posted by Bonez

Did you give the loom good going over to check for frayed wires?

That would be my guess - something not insulated somewhere, and shorting out with a bit of vibration or water. Unfortunately they are the hardest things to find and remedy... The good thing is a little bit of electrical tape can often fix your problem

**manuboy** · 27th October 2004, 09:09

Originally Posted by celticno6

Hmmm. A suzuki with electrical problems. Who would have thought that would happen? :sly:

Its horrid when your pride and joy is giving you grief.

Hope you get it sorted soon jr.

Methinks Celtic, if JR owned any other brand of bike and gave it the same stick he'd be lucky to have it still running at all! C'mon - he's entered it into the Motorway bounce-bounce-flip-richochet contest, and it still runs.

Spent any cash keeping your Yammy running lately???? How those steering bushes looking?????

Cheeky bugger.....

**jrandom** · 27th October 2004, 09:30

Originally Posted by Milky

That would be my guess - something not insulated somewhere, and shorting out with a bit of vibration or water. Unfortunately they are the hardest things to find and remedy... The good thing is a little bit of electrical tape can often fix your problem

Yup. Swot it'll be. Water, I'm guessing, since it was fine until dumped upon in the rain yesterday.

I'll give it a going-over on the weekend, with whatever electrically-enlightened help I can get (VivaVee, be afraid...) and if I can't find the culprit, I suspect I'll have to trailer it into Holeshot next week and pay through the nose for them to repeat the exercise until it's fixed.

Oh, well, it's not too bad as a sole (presumably) item of functional damage from that crash. As Rincewind would say, no worries, eh?

**Posh Tourer :P** · 27th October 2004, 16:53

Originally Posted by jrandom

I suspect I'll have to trailer it into Holeshot next week and pay through the nose for them to repeat the exercise until it's fixed.

Oh, well, it's not too bad as a sole (presumably) item of functional damage from that crash. As Rincewind would say, no worries, eh?

I wouldnt bother trailering it into holeshot until it does the fuse blowing thing reliably as soon as you start it. It takes too long and is too hard to find the problem of intermittent electrical faults (= astronomical labour costs) otherwise

**jrandom** · 27th October 2004, 17:29

Originally Posted by Posh Tourer :P

I wouldnt bother trailering it into holeshot until it does the fuse blowing thing reliably as soon as you start it.

Precisely how it's behaving right now, unfortunately.

I sincerely hope I can find something to fix on the weekend.

**Antallica** · 27th October 2004, 17:33

It's all good, just remove all the plastic shite and have a real good look/feel. Also while you have most of the plastic off, proceed to convert front to naked styles.

**jrandom** · 27th October 2004, 17:39

Originally Posted by Antallica

It's all good, just remove all the plastic shite and have a real good look/feel.

As it sits unmoving on my back porch with a blown fuse?

**Antallica** · 27th October 2004, 17:41

Yeah but it blew the 2nd fuse didn't it, so it must be something more sinister.

**jrandom** · 27th October 2004, 17:48

Originally Posted by Antallica

Yeah but it blew the 2nd fuse didn't it, so it must be something more sinister.

My point exactly.

I'm not looking forward to the piece-by-piece dissection of something I'm not familiar with and random associated multimeter proddings that will inevitably eat most of my coming Saturday, quite possibly without useful results.

**Kickaha** · 27th October 2004, 17:51

Get shot of it,I'll give you a bag of green onion chips and a bottle of Jamesons for it

**jrandom** · 27th October 2004, 17:56

Originally Posted by Kickaha

a bottle of Jamesons

Oohhhuruuuuggghhh.

Please don't mention bottles of Jamesons to me for a little while.

Thank you.

**Bonez** · 27th October 2004, 18:53

Originally Posted by jrandom

My point exactly.

I'm not looking forward to the piece-by-piece dissection of something I'm not familiar with and random associated multimeter proddings that will inevitably eat most of my coming Saturday, quite possibly without useful results.

A good way to get to no the thing a little more intermatlely