Hi guys.

Looking for suggestions from anyone here.

Short scenario: Bike was down at Moorespeed for a few more tweeks (as it does every winter). Returned a month or so ago - running fine.

Sat in the garage for a month, so maybe the battery is a bit marginal, but a nice day so I try to fire it up - clunk, clunk - fires up fine. Run for two mins to put some heat into it and let the tickover settle down a bit (tickover always a bit rough to start with).

Happy that it runs OK, I shut down to go into the house and get the bike gear on. Fully kitted up, I open the garage, wheel the bike out and fire up: it starts no probs. Let it run for another 30 secs and then pull away. I manage 10 metres then it dies.

Fuel - its getting that. Spark - removing plugs and checking against the head, we have spark at both pots. Compression - no reason to see why we would have any issues there ( it fired, it ran etc).

It sounds like it wants to start (yes, I have recharged the battery - no hesitancy in cranking) but it can't quite get there.

What obvious point am I missing?

[Oh, £200 to anyone who wants to come down (or up) and get it running for me.]

Cheers,

Dave

[quote="Dave from Scotland"]Hi guys.


I open the garage, wheel the bike out and fire up: it starts no probs. Let it run for another 30 secs and then pull away. I manage 10 metres then it dies.


What obvious point am I missing?

Have you taken the 10metre chain and padlock off

tank breather pipe ?

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£200 quid would get it up to Maz ..........sorted

A good point, well made

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But I only do Buells

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Mithered ta death.
92 MB
96 S2T
98 S1W
00 M2
01 X1
03 P3
10 CR

I thought DFS's bike WAS a Buell??

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Valencia Orange XB12Scg - serviced by Maz 2018
Black P3 Blast - serviced by Maz and fixed by Maz in 2019

It used to be......it's completely FUBAR now

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Mithered ta death.
92 MB
96 S2T
98 S1W
00 M2
01 X1
03 P3
10 CR

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Valencia Orange XB12Scg - serviced by Maz 2018
Black P3 Blast - serviced by Maz and fixed by Maz in 2019

Sounds like it's fucked to me. I'll give you a grand for it.

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I started out with nothing and still got most of it left.

Does it only die when you are on the bike? or will it not start at all now?
I mean, could the bodywork be trapping something when you are sitting on it?

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I started out with nothing and still got most of it left.

Have you looked at the electrical connections at the coil? I had a similar problem, thought it was cured after cleaning corrosion off the connections then eventually found an internal break on one of the wires, right at the angled connector.

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Too late to edit that. Just to be clear, it looked like I was getting a spark when I tested it, because the broken wire was connecting, but putting the plug back in jiggled the wire just enough to break the connection.

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Letting it run for short periods of time has probably contributed to the problem.

I had a similar issue after a TPS reset where it kept cutting out and running on one cylinder. Ended up cleaning the fouled spark plug up which resolved it.

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Take it back to Moorespeed??
There the boys for all things Buell.................. NOT

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