Well for all that has been following this thread and offered up all the help and advice I am here to say a huge THANK YOU ALL!!
THE CONCOURS IS ALIVE AND WELL. SHE RUNS AS GOOD AS SHE DID BEFORE THIS WHOLE ADVENTURE!!!!!!
Let me say that without Bagger Johns help on this bike the future would have been grim for this ole girl. Bagger Johns persistence, knowledge and willingness to help another biker out is second to none. His skill at diagnosing is better than anyone I have ever seen and I cannot Thank him enough! I will be forever in his debt!
Let me recap slightly before I get to the actual problem. In the beginning I had a very strange condition were I had nothing coming from the bike. That led to many hours of tearing the bike apart. Looking at sensors, connections, continuity of circuits which eventually lead to a broken #10 power wire going from the rectifier to the back of the bike. I repaired the wire and the bike came back to life, however I still had a crank no start condition. I spent hours researching, complaining and trying to figure out why this damn thing wouldnt start! Eventually I acquired another wiring harness and replaced the original thinking that if that one wire was broken there may be more. Still crank no start.
I finally broke down and took it to the dealer where all the professionals are!! HA. As all know that was a waist of $250 dollars. After being separated from my bike for 5 weeks while it sat in the corner at the dealer my savior contacted me thru this website named Bagger John offering to help. I retrieved the bike from the dealer and made arrangements to meet with John.
John was generous enough to ride almost 2 hours with his KDS software and associated equipment. Our first diagnosis session consisted of registering my spare ECU and looking at what the bike was doing. Thru the software we could see all the computers were talking to each other so it was still a mystery as to why we had no spark. (Or so I thought)
John came back this past Saturday prepared with new equipment and ideas! We performed a signal test on the individual coils and it showed we should have spark. At the suggestion of a friend of mine I removed the air cleaner and sprayed a little bit of starting fluid into the airbox. The bike sputtered indicting we did in fact have spark. AH HAH progress!!!
The next thing to check was fuel delivery! John performed a signal test on the individual injectors! Uh Oh something is amiss! My heart dropped thinking it must be something in the KiPass ECU not pulsing the injectors. John said to me dont worry we are going to figure it out! At this point Im loosing hope thinking if I have to replace the KiPAss ECU and all associated equipment it was over. I cannot afford to put $1500 into a $3500 motorcycle!! We started looking in the FSM and the open page mentioned checking the bike down sensor!!
John asked me about it and I said in the beginning I had removed that sensor and we ohmed it out to assure it wasnt bad. It ohmed out perfect so I re-installed it. I decided to go ahead and pull it again just to make sure I wasnt correct the first time I checked it.
I pulled out my flashlight to look at the sensor to see what I was going to need to remove it. As I looked up into the tail of the bike I saw the sensor and noticed a huge problem.
Can you guess what the problem was???
All this time after I installed the new wiring harness and the bike was a crank no start was because................
My dumbass installed the bike down sensor upside down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John was getting ready to leave because he had a commitment he had to get to so I asked him if he would hang out just long enough to let me pull the sensor, flip it over and just see. He agreed, I unbolted the sensor and just held it in the proper orientation, hit the start button and the bike immediately fired off and came to life..
I cannot explain in words the feeling of embarrassment, shame, frustration and relief I felt at that moment! I have and would never make any claim at being a mechanic but I am pretty sharp at paying attention to details like working on mechanical things! I cannot believe I lost almost 3 riding season because of such a stupid mistake!
The bike is back together, all that is left is for me to install my comms, GPS, change fluids, clean it up, put plates and insurance on it and maybe go for a ride!!
THANK YOU TO ALL THAT STUCK THROUGH THIS WITH ME AND OFFERED HELP AND ADVICE!! All the THANKS to Bagger John! Dude you saved me.....LOL
Two notes of reference:
1. If your security light blinks quickly while cranking check the Bike Down Sensor for function!!!! or orientation?
2. We are all human and are subject to brain dead ridiculously stupid mistakes! I was told by an ole wise man that as long as your trying your going to make mistakes! Keep Trying!
See ya on the road! Be safe everyone!
