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14-07-08, 10:04 PM | #1 |
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Funny problems with engine speed and lights dimming
Ok i was riding today and randomly the bike started blipping the throttle even though my hand was steady. Also the speedo started reading all over the shop as did the revs. Further more the lights dimmed and fuel light came on even though i have loads of petrol.
I stopped the bike immediately (at the first safe point, obviously) switched it off then on again and all was normal for the ride back home. Has anyone else experienced any problems like this with thier bikes??? I have an inckling that it will be a very cheap or easy problem to fix should it persist. But please mighty orgers let me know if there are any sollutions, be that cheasp or expensive.
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14-07-08, 10:17 PM | #2 |
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Re: Worrying problems...???
choke cable stuck?
throttle cable caught round the headstock?
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14-07-08, 10:22 PM | #3 |
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Re: Worrying problems...???
Could the symptoms i tried to describe be caused by anything electrical as the lights dimmed also and speedo went crazy even though it is currently broken. I am in the process of taking the fron wheel off and looking at the speedo rota....
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Re: Funny problems with engine speed and lights dimming
Some sort of electrical gremlin
Would help if you told us a litle more about your bike. I'd check the basic stuff first such as loose battery connections and then have a poke around and see if you can see anywhere where the wirinig loom has rubbed the insulation through against the frame and gone to earth, look round by the headstock and under the rear plastics, if you have a curvey then sometimes the left hand side front seat bolt does this as well.
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Re: Funny problems with engine speed and lights dimming
If the speedo is going mad, chances are it's a bad main electrical or earth- which usually means a lose battery terminal, or a problem with the starter relay (which is where the 30 amp fuses plug in, on the right hand side) or sometimes a damaged wire elsewhere (check under seat and around headstock, that's where SV looms tend to rub). I bet you 10p it's one of these,and a further 5p that it's the battery connections.
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