So, today, I was out and about on the suzuki, in full garb, enjoying a fun curves session in the neighborhood.
Everything was going fine, except the occasional cop and blue hair here in fla.

about 1/2 mile from home, a light turns green, so i VROOOOOM baby wheelie - hard on it across the empty intersection, never exceeded the limit, just rocked on the throttle.
THEN
all of a sudden, strangeness in the bowels of ol' shitty. I immediately recognize the sound and feel of running on one cylinder.
I limp home, and give it a looksee.

Diagnosis: Righty has lost all spark, none at all. coil check, good, within spec.

problem: The right cylinder pickup has failed. reading infinity ohms.
FORK.

So again, I appeal to you:
Where can I get one? Mrcycles has the assembly for 160 bucks. I am poor. That wont be happening for a while.

Is there anyone on the board with an extra assembly I can purchase or whore myself out for?
pleasepleasepleaseplease!

I hope everyone is having a good riding season. and tombstone: if it aint broke: something must be wrong.

Why dont you just put up a request in buy/sell/trade? I'm sure there will be someone parting out bike that can sell you the part for a fraction of what the dealer wants

Thanks term, if i can figure out why it did this, i may do exactly that. I forget we have such forum diversity here.

Actually, update:


The pickup coil came back to life and its running fine again.
All i did was remove it from the bike and test it on the bench.

WTF.


anyone got any ideas why?

Must have a discontinuity in there that is intermittent.  I haven't taken apart the pickup so I don't know how it looks in there...

Perhaps the landing after the wheelie shook a connector slightly loose, and you fixed the problem when you put it back together after your bench test?

Quote from: Kerry on May 30, 2012, 10:00:45 PM
Perhaps the landing after the wheelie shook a connector slightly loose, and you fixed the problem when you put it back together after your bench test?

QuotePerhaps the landing after the wheelie shook a connector slightly loose, and you fixed the problem when you put it back together after your bench test?

Thats a possibility, I might say the vibes could be even more to blame, because it wasnt much of a wheelie... haha
I'll give all the connectors a stiff yank and see if any of the wires are loose or fraying. Just what I wanted to do, more electrical work. I'll get out the iron and solder once more just in case.

Thanks kerry, love the page by the way, I found it first when I was just beginning to research this bike.


My theory: this bike is a jealous one, and is trying to tell me to stop screwing around with the yamaha and ride her more.

So, it seems to be a heat problem? im not sure yet. a mellow 11 mile ride, and at the last minute, the right cylinder dropped out. same problem. wtf?

i'll be posting in the wanted section soon.

Have seen heat-related failures of that component before.

Quote from: Funderb on May 30, 2012, 07:31:54 PM
Thanks term, if i can figure out why it did this, i may do exactly that. I forget we have such forum diversity here.

Actually, update:


The pickup coil came back to life and its running fine again.
All i did was remove it from the bike and test it on the bench.

WTF.


anyone got any ideas why?

Loose/corroded connections will drive you batty.  This may be what is happening.  I had an older bike once that had intermittent problems with electricals.  2 cans of "Electronic pars cleaner" did the trick on EVERY connection in the harness.

Quote from: Paulcet on June 01, 2012, 08:04:00 AM
Have seen heat-related failures of that component before.

I've seen that. bluesmudge had it. Someone else did, too.

I WANT A DEFECTIVE ONE! Don't toss it. What I would like to do is run some bench tests on a defective one to try to understand what is happening.

Mine was a heat-related failure.

Bike would work fine for about 10 minutes until it warmed up and then would be completely dead. Let it sit for a few hours and it would work again.

On the new single pick up engines, you don't even get to run on one cylinder -- bike just dies. Also makes it harder to diagnose. I'm glad you were able to figure out what was wrong quickly.