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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => FZS600 Fazer => Topic started by: yamy on 25 April 2013, 05:21:33 pm

Title: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 25 April 2013, 05:21:33 pm
Hi all I'm in need of some help,  I've changed the starter
relay, starter and button to no good as to why it's not
Starting without abump start ?

any ideas what it could be?
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: darrsi on 25 April 2013, 06:45:50 pm
Bit more info needed, does it turn over using the button, is the battery okay, etc
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 25 April 2013, 06:58:48 pm
hi  when button is pushed there's nothing (no clicking etc)
Battery is fully charged.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: riz on 25 April 2013, 07:01:03 pm
Try starting with the clutch in
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Orangegrump on 25 April 2013, 07:04:19 pm
Check the position of the red cut out switch on the right hand handle bar
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 25 April 2013, 07:29:07 pm
Just tried all above and still nothing
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Dead Eye on 25 April 2013, 07:46:54 pm
Time to check for bad connections to the starter motor. Use a multimeter and see if you are getting power whilst thumbing the starter button
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: John Silva on 25 April 2013, 07:50:19 pm
Have you checked all the fuses.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 25 April 2013, 07:59:39 pm
All  fuses checked and are ok.all wires feel fine.
Just thinking could it be the immobiliser playing up but starts with bump through.

Cheers
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 25 April 2013, 09:30:18 pm
is there a fuse just for the starting ? apart from on the relay
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 26 April 2013, 08:58:24 am
Just a update just been out to it and it started first time
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Ruby Racing on 26 April 2013, 09:09:52 am
So perhaps you have an intermittent problem? Now that's the worst kind.  :(
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: clayt74 on 26 April 2013, 04:15:51 pm
So perhaps you have an intermittent problem? Now that's the worst kind.  :(
A bit like when I asked the missus if my indicators worked and she stood watching sayiny yes......no........yes.....no........yes  :lol
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Exupnut on 26 April 2013, 04:20:08 pm
Lmao hahaha
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Fazerider on 26 April 2013, 05:26:03 pm
As always, it can be a broken wire or corroded connector, a careful visual check of the bundle in the plastic box under the tank and by the battery compartment may show the problem. Otherwise it could be the starter cut-out relay.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 26 April 2013, 09:02:45 pm
As always, it can be a broken wire or corroded connector, a careful visual check of the bundle in the plastic box under the tank and by the battery compartment may show the problem. Otherwise it could be the starter cut-out relay.
cheers bud but where is the starter cut out relay
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Fazerider on 26 April 2013, 10:47:42 pm
As always, it can be a broken wire or corroded connector, a careful visual check of the bundle in the plastic box under the tank and by the battery compartment may show the problem. Otherwise it could be the starter cut-out relay.
cheers bud but where is the starter cut out relay
It's near the starter relay, lift the seat and take the left hand side panel off, it's the one with a connector with 11 wires.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 27 April 2013, 08:06:25 am
Cheers bud will look at it and see what's going on
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 27 April 2013, 10:28:15 am
Looks clean but got one on order now 15 quid
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Fazerider on 27 April 2013, 11:34:33 am
Hope that solves it.
I would have poked around with a multimeter to check it's faulty before splashing out... but I am a skinflint. :lol
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 27 April 2013, 10:30:52 pm
will do that tomorrow now cheers
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 30 April 2013, 02:26:03 pm
hi  I've tried everything so far. What about putting a switch
to the relay near the battery cos it starts by doing that
would it do any harm ?
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Fazerider on 30 April 2013, 11:52:50 pm
Perhaps we can pin it down rather than bodging a solution.
If changing the cut-out relay hasn't cured things that just leaves the wiring and connectors as suspects doesn't it? I think you've changed everything else.
Might be worth checking the voltage at the black wire on the cut-out relay... with everything ready to go it should be at 12v, and drop to 0v while you thumb the starter button.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 01 May 2013, 02:38:15 am
Cheers mate I'll give that a go at the weekend. If not it's going to be a shop bill
to get this sorted can't be bumping it for ever.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Fazerider on 03 May 2013, 11:36:33 am
Another thing you might try: hold the starter button down whilst slowly turning the bars from one side to the other. If there's a broken wire that sometimes makes contact it's quite likely to be at the point where the cable bundle flexes.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 03 May 2013, 09:16:11 pm
Since my last post its only done it twice. but will do that on Sunday as I'm in work tomorrow
at 0430 cheers
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: Fazerider on 03 May 2013, 10:17:46 pm
You have my sympathy.
I did 4am starts for a while: absolutely hated it... after doing them for a while a midnight start 12 hour shift seemed like luxury. :lol
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: unfazed on 03 May 2013, 11:44:37 pm
Corrosion on the starter button contacts.
Open the switch spray it with wd40 and operate it with ignition of 4 or 5 time and then try it. If that does not solve it remove the button and clean the contacts with fine emery paper, reassemble and off you go
 
 
 
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 06 May 2013, 11:01:17 am
nop that didn't work either mate .done everything i can do now
It's time to put it in the work shop now I think
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: unfazed on 06 May 2013, 11:31:20 am
Open the box of connectors under the tank. Dismanntle them all and check them. spray with WD40 before reassembly.
Did you disassembe the right hand handle bar switch unit? I have found that in the older bikes and bikes that are not used regularly the contacts of the kill switch corrode or wear and either need replacing or cleaning. Again try spraying the kill switch contacts wiht WD40.
Do you know of anybody you could borrow the right hand switch assembly from to try? Most of the problems you describe that I have come accross have been the contacts in the starter button, the kill switch or the ignition switch.
You could by pass the ignition switch to rule it out, but you would need to be confident in what you are doing to take it on.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 06 May 2013, 12:26:22 pm
Hi ya yeah I did do the right hand switch, as for the kill
button I've never used it .
If it was the ignition surly you couldn't bump start it ?
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: unfazed on 06 May 2013, 12:56:22 pm
Vibration of the bumping could be helping which also points to a loose connection somewhere which is why I suggested cleaning all the connections in the box under the tank
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: His Dudeness on 06 May 2013, 01:49:10 pm
Next time it happens try holding the starter button in and jiggle all the connectors you can think of one at a time and see if it comes to life. When it happens do you lose everything electrical or just the starter?
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 06 May 2013, 04:45:48 pm
Just the starter button guy's ,some times after i have pressed the starter
but wait 40-50 secs it may start then. Tried wobbling every wire but nothing.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: unfazed on 07 May 2013, 12:33:38 am
Have you checked the starter motor itself?
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 07 May 2013, 07:34:57 am
Hi unfazed, it's had a new switch, starter relay, starter,
Starter lead,  cut-off relay. still doing it the only thing it could be is
Ignition ?
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: riz on 07 May 2013, 09:17:15 am
Do you have a way to disable the immobileser if it has one?
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 07 May 2013, 10:15:35 am
hi ya not sure mate,  but it does start if you put a spanner on the starter relay
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: unfazed on 07 May 2013, 02:02:17 pm
Hi unfazed, it's had a new switch, starter relay, starter,
Starter lead,  cut-off relay. still doing it the only thing it could be is
Ignition ?
Did you try as I suggested, disconnection of all the connections in the box under the tank and spraying them with WD40 before reassembly.
If that did/does not help let me know and I will explain how to bypass the ignition if you want to try it.
Title: Re: bike not starting
Post by: yamy on 07 May 2013, 06:39:14 pm
Hi pal it's a wiring problem so it's going to be done on Friday
for £25  cheers for the help.