question to everyone!

[viper_biker]

the electrics on the rear are all floating about, i had ductaped them to the undertray before, but right now they are all floating about.

Cool, a zero gravity seat cavity.

[jim157]

right now they are all floating about.

Libra, and my name is Ersan...

[xivlia]

floating as in not secure.. moving, rattling... not 0 gravity.

[speedy231278]

floating as in not secure.. moving, rattling... not 0 gravity.

I had a feeling when I read about a different tail on the bike that this may be the case. I'm still determined to prove my theory about the kill switch... lol The fusebox is in the tail. If that's been rattling about you may well have disturbed and/or damaged gawd knows what. There's a 10A blade fuse in that box, and the feed goes back to the battery. On the other side is the kill switch, followed by the two ignition coils. I still reckon something is damaged somewhere between the coils and the switch or the fuse, however if it was before the switch, that would also knock out the starter as the start switch is fed by the same circuit. Even if it's not that, having all the wiring floating about will be a very good reason why your brake light switch worked, didn't work, then worked again. It will explain why your CDI worked, didn't work, then a different one worked, then maybe didn't. Best guess is you've knackered the back half of the wiring loom, which is bad news as that's the half the fusebox lives in. You're probably going to have to check every last inch of every wire for potential damage!

[xivlia]

well, i will find out once i get to check them all out. im not just not motivated at all what so ever, i dont have a garage and i hate working on the bike outside. its cold, and it always rains up in this shit hole.

[mo haggs]

well, i will find out once i get to check them all out. im not just not motivated at all what so ever, i dont have a garage and i hate working on the bike outside. its cold, and it always rains up in this shit hole.

how big is your kitchen/dinning room?

[jo]

Best get it sorted now then before it starts snowing
Hope you sort it - electrical problems are a nightmare.

[ibby4585]

I'm still convinced xivlia is a wind up! Put on this website to play with all our minds!

[vfrman]

Don't feel too bad X. I have an electrical problem with my track bike right now that is really pissing me off. It is kind of the same as yours. I get the bike running and take it around the block. About a mile into it the bike loses power and quits. I notice the temp gauge is intermittently pegging to the right. FFS. I have to push the bike back home and it won’t start again. I change out the rear plugs and it fires…but only on the rear. Haven’t gotten around to changing the front out yet. Next step is to change the front plugs. While I am at it I am going to go through the wiring harness again and make sure all the earths are in good condition.

The dumbest thing I have ever done with my bike is break the motor to put some HRC pistons in the bike. Turns out the wrist pin is closer to the piston face so the new pistons without longer rods lowered my compression ratio. The best part is the pistons were slightly bigger than the bores and I trusted a machine shop that has never worked with motorcycle engines to enlarge the bores. They royally phuked it up and ended up boring the cylinders to over twice the maximum tolerance. I didn’t double check and assembled the motor. Oil was blowing by the rings so badly that the bike looked like a 2 stroke. When I broke the engine down again I could wobble the pistons in their bores! I had to find another motor. When I reassembled for the second time I used too much sealant near the crank and clogged the oil galleys. This motor gave up on me while at the track. Spun a big end rod bearing. Nice. So. In the end I took apart a perfectly running engine and jacked it up so bad I had to replace it….twice.

[speedy231278]

Nothing wrong with learning from your mistakes. I do have one rule when I'm convinced I might make a mistake and end up buggering something up. Always have a spare one to replace it with! I'd never have pulled the carbs off of my bike to clean up, however I was happy to pull apart the spare set I bought. If I get them on the bike and I've got it badly wrong, I know I've got a functional, if slightly off-song, set to go back on until I sort out my error/s. I have a spare stator to perform my planned charging circuit improvement on. If I screw it up, I know the old one works... :-)