Welp,,,,, Murphy just slapped the crap outa me here recently. First my Mustang catches fire, then my wife's Miata stops running. I get the Mustang worked out and now my FJR has wigged out on me,,,,,,,,,,,,,, again!
For anyone that remembers I had a bad problem last year with the FJR not running. In that occurrence the bike cranked, ran for about 20 seconds and cut off as if you hit the kill switch. This was about two weeks after doing a 7K mile trip out west. Well long story short on that was that it kicked my butt and I gave up and took it to a dealership thinking they could figure it out. No dice,,,, never did figure it it. Dern thang just "fixed itself" sorta kinda and we never did figure out what the initial problem was.
Fast forward almost perfectly a year and I do a 5K mile trip and a week later the bike does the exact same thing as before. I went to start it up today and zip,,, nada,,,, ain't gonna happen. I cranked it, it started and ran for about five seconds and it shut off as if the kill switch was hit exactly as it did before. It will crank but it doesn't even try to fire. Man this pisses me off. :banghead:
Like I said,,, last year we never figured out the original problem. We "guessed" it was a loose ECU plug that one of us {either me or the mechanic at the dealership} wiggled and possibly "fixed" while attempting to trouble shoot or possibly a bad ignition switch. The problem never came up again so I lost interest in trying to really and truly find the cause of the problem. Seems I got another chance ehh?
There are a couple of coditions that are the same in both instances. First off,,,, in both cases the bike was ridden long distances {roughly 7K and 5K respectively}. In both instances the bike sat for awhile right after doing all those miles. In other words, I rode the piss outa it and put her up wet so to speak. In both instances the bike was ridden is some extremely wet conditions. Wet enough to frig up my 12V cig plug in! The wet conditions just might be the key here. But,,,, this time I didn't do any washing of the bike car wash or not!
Seriously man,,,,, what's the chances of this crap popping up again in almost exactly the same cicumstances? Seriously crappy luck in one respect but I reckon I'm glad it's happened twice right after a big trip while at home so could be considered good luck. Glass half full and all that jazz I suppose.
Anywho,,, I will try to look into the switch thing tomorrow but if anyone here has any ideas or like experiences please throw them up here. Could use all the help I can get.