Yet another update from "Team Hapless Dane" :
First of all:
Thank you Bill, Pete, Gill, Patrick and Jim !!!
... The burn is healing OK..
GOOD ! That's all I wanted to hear.
I was happy to have unexpectedly met you during Speed Week 2011 (you may recall I was assisting Beairsto Racing)
I certainly do. We'll keep in touch and talk blown Goldwings and stuff
Lars, perhaps stating the obvious
No: your giving good advise !
Thanks !
and being certain you have already performed said check, the root of all (evil) electrical problems after ensuring signal / power points A & B are physically connected is poor grounding when using the frame or engine as a ground path.
Yep !...I wholeheartedly agree that it is the root of all evil,
which is why I didn't connect anything using the frame/ground.
I ran separate wires for all connections going to battery
+,
but alas the gremlins had descended on the bike anyways....AURGH !
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Here goes some of the ridiculously ridiculous petty-full details:
..after the aborted run the other day ( I'm too knackered to remember which day was which day )
we packed up the bike in the pit.
During the night there was a bit of a wind coming up.
No biggie....except my bike had fallen over and was lying in a pool of oil.
A sad sight...and NOT a good start of the day
..got ready to do a run as we were first in line ( because of being first in line the previous day when the race was closed )
Checked the bike in the pit.
Pushed the starter button.....Nothing !
Huh
Finally found a wire on the battery terminal-connection had worked it-self loose.
Weird ! Really shouldn't happen
..got in line
Start signal
Started bike
Bike died .....whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the #/§k
??!!!!!!!!!
Fuse burned
After lots of fooling around we found a wire that had worked itself into
a passage between the battery-box and the frame.
The minute I sat down my fat a** on the seat ( over the battery box ) it ripped the wire and short'ed it
to the frame..
OHHHHHHHH no: it ain't over: there is more misery coming up :
Fixed that.
Got in line
Go signal
Yehaaaaaaw: bike runs sweeeeeet....BRooooooooooooM ....happyness !
That is: until I got to the half-mile
Bike craps out and just dies.
AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURGH !!!
( I'm good at those long loud heartfelt " aurgh "s , wouldn't you say ?! )
Time to replace everything potential that can be replaced:
new coil, new relay, new BIG automotive fuel-filter.
The Indian guys turned up with new REAL genuine high quality
ignition rotors and a cap, both of which actually fits on the bike.
More testing and testing and testing and test runs and test runs
and disassembly and reassembly and testing and testing and testing and test runs and test runs
and replacing ignition module and stuff.....
More same same same:
inconsistent results, no logical results
and lots of unclear mixed signals,
but always would it just fart and semi-die after a bit of test-running
We had the whole Indian intelligentsia over
and a bunch of other racers whos collective racing
experience probably represents a few centuries of wisdom,
to help out and give advise.
This morning we got out there at sun-rise and went through the whole thing again
and rechecked the electric system
and in fact found a couple of embarrassing fault that
could have caused the problem
( like a real bad connection on the coil to distributor HT wire )
except they weren't consistent with the fact that it ran well
first day at Speed Week but not on the second day.
Anyway: at around 11 o'clock I did the first successful test-run.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got in line.
The 'second-before-me' bike set off.
One more guy to go and it was time to ROCK'N'ROOOOOOL !
Then the wind came up and the course was closed down for today.
Now : that's one he** of a super-sized mega bummer story....ai ?
I couldn't have made it up myself.
I think it's darn funny ! Seriously !
First one has to kind of pretend it darn funny just to cope with it
but then it does in fact become real funny......because it
is darn funny !
I'm afraid that when the course was closed and we rolled the bike back on the truck
I descended into a semi-hysterical laughing fit.
If what you expected to happen always did happen, it would be real boring wouldn't it.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you to David !!!!!!!!!!!!
and to Ron who showed up the other day out of the blue
to sign up for the "Team Hapless Dane".
I've never met him before, just 'talked' to him on another forum.
Here they are: