15 bucks a month.

haha! my father got a bit pissy when i brought home a bike.  what did he think was going to happen after an MSF course and buying a few hundred bucks of gear? he demanded i get insurance for it for "WHEN you Crash into someone!!" he says.  he said he wouldnt let me drive it until i show proof.  i just got insurance in a jiffy.  now this thing is full proof nothings keeping me from the road now see yall there.  woohooo!

Congrats on the new ride. Fuel lines are cheap at the auto parts store, and get the spring type hose clamps instead of the screw type, they work better and are cheap. The first thing to do about your lights is to clean all of your connections. if that dosen't work, check the continuity of the wires with a multi-meter or circut tester, if that checks out, your pressure switch is probally bad. Just use your front brake whenever you stop till you fix it.

I got my '94 GS 500e 3 week ago and I did not think much about a leaky tank. After the first week , I went to warm up the bike and I found a pool of gas on the floor! .

The cost for a brand new tank is $469.00. so you got to be sure of what you're getting!

Quote from: Merkurio24 on August 25, 2006, 01:45:20 AM
I got my '94 GS 500e 3 week ago and I did not think much about a leaky tank. After the first week , I went to warm up the bike and I found a pool of gas on the floor! .

The cost for a brand new tank is $469.00. so you got to be sure of what you're getting!

dude that stinks! i hope thats not my situation. i think and hope that the leak was comming from these makeshift hoses he put in the gas line. that or the usual float bowl stuck open. 

Only a sucker would buy a new tank.  Go ebay, or search around on here and spend $40-ish.

-Turd.

you know that saying nothing lasts forever?  now my bike starts up but as soon as i put the choke off it dies. maybe i just need to warm it up a bit more.

Quote from: iakona808 on August 26, 2006, 01:05:30 PM
you know that saying nothing lasts forever?  now my bike starts up but as soon as i put the choke off it dies. maybe i just need to warm it up a bit more.

Probably, it takes a few minutes to warm up if the engine is stone cold.  If it keeps happening try adjusting the idle screw (big one under the carbs) in a bit to keep the revs up when you take the choke off.

-M

ok ive been going thru problems with my bike and have just been looking them up on here and fixing them.  oil was too high.  was kicking into my airbox and spewing out my drain.  fixed that but to start my bike i have to jump it with my car.  if i let my bike sit for a while then go to start it up it works the first time. if i shut it off and try again...no spark horn dies so ulitimately i lose power to the bike after i start it once.  then if i let it sit for a while it seems to build up enough juice again to start up just once.   battery i was told was new looks pretty new have never seen batteries like these before.  alternator problem?  i may just end up replacing the shanty hose getting a tach for it which it doesnt have at the moment and selling it trying to turn a dime. 

tried to shift up while riding and it stalled out about two blocks from my house and had to roll it all the way back.  I think my neighbors think im an idiot now.  is this a clutch problem or electrical problem?  with my previously mentioned problem im thinking electrical (no sparkage). 

anyway to tell from a battery or alternator problem.  if it is an alternator problem is the only way to fix that to just replace?  i think the battery is brand new.  i dont know what all the dials on the thing are for but the thing looks brand new.  when i go to start it it make this dying cow sound.  the lights will dim but never fully turn off and the horn eventually dies out. 

i charged the battery found that it was half charged.  put it back in this morning rode like a champ about a mile then sputtered and died, tried starting it up several times took the battery out found that it wasn't fully charged again.  what does this mean?

Some times when a battery gets drained of juice it never can hold a decent charge again...something about the plates or the acid in the battery.  You can try adding more acid I think.  Also if your brake light is still out when you use the rear brake, maybe there is a short somewhere that drains your battery.   
happy hunting

thanks for the advice ill check out that break light, i also got a tip that it could be the voltage regulator/rectifier?  what does this thing do and is it expensive to replace?

Quote from: iakona808 on August 27, 2006, 06:54:10 PM
---snip---  when i go to start it it make this dying cow sound.  the lights will dim but never fully turn off and the horn eventually dies out. 

Your horn makes noises when you are trying to START the bike?

You got a short there guy. (Unless you are hitting the horn button, instead of the start button. )

Quote from: Toledo Jim on August 29, 2006, 03:44:39 AM

Quote from: iakona808 on August 27, 2006, 06:54:10 PM
---snip---  when i go to start it it make this dying cow sound.  the lights will dim but never fully turn off and the horn eventually dies out. 

Your horn makes noises when you are trying to START the bike?

You got a short there guy. (Unless you are hitting the horn button, instead of the start button. )

haha guess i didnt explain myself well, i just tried the horn cause its hooked up to the electrical power...i noticed that when i pushed it the horn would eventually stop working so i pin pointed that there was a power issue.  now that ive pin pointed that  problem i charged up my battery, thought that would solve everything since my battery wasn't fully charged. when i put my fully charged battery in, the bike worked for about a mile and then stalled and wouldn start up again.  i took the bike back home and the battery was dead again.  im trying to find out why i lost so much power so fast. thanks

First of all check the acid level of your battery, if it's low fill it to the max level with distilled water. Then charge the battery fully and allow it to cool down and stabilize for 1/2 hour or so then check the voltage (if you don't already have a multi meter, get one they are less than $10 at an auto parts or electrical parts store) it should be at least 12 volts. A brand new battery will be more like 13 but anything over 12 should be okay. Let the battery sit disconnected from the bike overnight then check the voltage again. If the voltage decreases by more than a couple of tenths of a volt, it's probally bad.

If the battery passes the first test put it in the bike and start it up. Check the voltage again, if everything is working properly (obviously it isn't) the voltage should be about 14 volts. If it's low, rev the bike to about 4k and see if anything changes. If yout alternator or regulator is shot, the voltage will continue to fall, and it will fall faster as the RPM increases. If you only get 12v at idle but 14v at 4k or so you're fine. If the voltage jumps arround a lot or is over 15v or so then your regulstor is probally shot. I think I saw a regulator for cheap on ebay. You may want to just buy it, if you can get it for 20 bucks, that's cheaper than going to a shop. I'l check my manual and see if it says anything about charging system testing.

With a fully charged battery - test voltage across the terminals with the thing running atleast 4K rpm. You'd have to have atleast 13V. Else your charging system is dead. There is more tests but try this and I'll tell you the next. IMHo this is the first step.
Cool.
Srinath.

so far my bike seems to idle alright, the voltmeter seems to be around maybe a little less than 12V when the batt is fully charged and when i turn on the bike the volts go up to about 13 or 14V. i had it running for about 5 min. i think im ready for the next step srinath.  question: when i idle my rpms fluctuate a lot and eventually it goes SUPER high just when im idling.  it revs up really high and i just shut off my bike.  anyone know about this?   this causes my voltmeter to go up and down too.

Well, high idle, or hanging idle can be caused by the bike being too lean, due to a vacuum leak. do a search for "hanging idle" or "vacuum leak", you'll find plenty to read about.