BumbleDB
Active member
I usually don't post, but I though I should post this as kind of an 'alert.'
Yes, I know, just because it happened to me doesn't mean much, but....
Out on my gen1 abs the other day, I dragged the rear wheel. Not a big thing,
as I unintentionally do it on my fz1 on rare occasion, but wait a minute....
Anyway, the trick was that my abs light comes on a power up and proves out.
Hmmm.. that's supposed to mean that the system is working. The supplementary
manual says that's so. You can ride with confidence.....
Since they had no set of tests for light proves out but system fails to work,
all I could do was run all the pinpoint tests. What I found is that my failsafe
relay is out of spec. Well, not the failsafe part of it, but the pump power
part of it. It is really 2 relays in one package. Both relays DO work, but
according to the manual the coil of the pump power relay is way out of spec.
Part of the test is to snap them down and check the contact resistance and
all that checks out, but the coil ohm-age does not. Sounds right to me, as any
other failure should have tripped the light. I'll have to run the fizzer out
to the yam dealer tomorrow to check on a new one. Will it fix it? We'll see.
I'd really rather not have to test that the hard way, but I think yammi has
a tester that will 'hump' the system. I would have probably added a pressure
sensor to the design to catch this failure, but maybe the G2 has that?
You'd think they would have added something to the design to catch a pump
failure.
This is one of those things where there really isn't much you can do or
worry too much about, but when my system was working it used to kick in
fairly often when braking over bumpy road surfaces. If you haven't noticed
that happening in a while, then maybe... nah, I'm sure mine was the one in
a million. For whatever it's worth, 05 with 40K+ miles on it.
Yes, I know, just because it happened to me doesn't mean much, but....
Out on my gen1 abs the other day, I dragged the rear wheel. Not a big thing,
as I unintentionally do it on my fz1 on rare occasion, but wait a minute....
Anyway, the trick was that my abs light comes on a power up and proves out.
Hmmm.. that's supposed to mean that the system is working. The supplementary
manual says that's so. You can ride with confidence.....
Since they had no set of tests for light proves out but system fails to work,
all I could do was run all the pinpoint tests. What I found is that my failsafe
relay is out of spec. Well, not the failsafe part of it, but the pump power
part of it. It is really 2 relays in one package. Both relays DO work, but
according to the manual the coil of the pump power relay is way out of spec.
Part of the test is to snap them down and check the contact resistance and
all that checks out, but the coil ohm-age does not. Sounds right to me, as any
other failure should have tripped the light. I'll have to run the fizzer out
to the yam dealer tomorrow to check on a new one. Will it fix it? We'll see.
I'd really rather not have to test that the hard way, but I think yammi has
a tester that will 'hump' the system. I would have probably added a pressure
sensor to the design to catch this failure, but maybe the G2 has that?
You'd think they would have added something to the design to catch a pump
failure.
This is one of those things where there really isn't much you can do or
worry too much about, but when my system was working it used to kick in
fairly often when braking over bumpy road surfaces. If you haven't noticed
that happening in a while, then maybe... nah, I'm sure mine was the one in
a million. For whatever it's worth, 05 with 40K+ miles on it.
