jamesymurray
05-09-12, 08:30 AM
Hello all,
I've been having right old time with the SV recently.
Running like a dream all summer until one day last week when at a red light, the bike suddenly cut out and all the lights went out.
About 2 seconds later the ignition lights all came back and the bike fired up again.
Everything looked fine apart from now, the speedo wasn't working.
Rev counter was fine, mileometer in the middle of the speedo was counting up properly, just the speedo needle not budging from 0.
Odd... so searching here brings me to think that the speedo sensor is faulty.
On my way back from work later that day, halfway through my journey, the rev counter goes haywire for a second or two, settles down again, and then the speedo starts working again!
Now everything looks fine again, until a few days later when getting the bike out to go to work.
Key in, lights on, hit the starter, and then it dies. It looks like a knackered fuse, so pop the seat, open the fusebox and all springs back to life.
Bike now starts. Try a few times over without a problem.
Then later in the evening at work, same problem again. Rectified by poking the fusebox.
The last part seems to be a loose connection with the fusebox, but could that also be attributed to the speedo problems?
Is there some other common part of the wiring that could have caused these funnies?
Reading through old posts there has been mention starter relay wiring.:confused:
Any help would be greatly appreciated!:D
I've been having right old time with the SV recently.
Running like a dream all summer until one day last week when at a red light, the bike suddenly cut out and all the lights went out.
About 2 seconds later the ignition lights all came back and the bike fired up again.
Everything looked fine apart from now, the speedo wasn't working.
Rev counter was fine, mileometer in the middle of the speedo was counting up properly, just the speedo needle not budging from 0.
Odd... so searching here brings me to think that the speedo sensor is faulty.
On my way back from work later that day, halfway through my journey, the rev counter goes haywire for a second or two, settles down again, and then the speedo starts working again!
Now everything looks fine again, until a few days later when getting the bike out to go to work.
Key in, lights on, hit the starter, and then it dies. It looks like a knackered fuse, so pop the seat, open the fusebox and all springs back to life.
Bike now starts. Try a few times over without a problem.
Then later in the evening at work, same problem again. Rectified by poking the fusebox.
The last part seems to be a loose connection with the fusebox, but could that also be attributed to the speedo problems?
Is there some other common part of the wiring that could have caused these funnies?
Reading through old posts there has been mention starter relay wiring.:confused:
Any help would be greatly appreciated!:D