Project The Dying FZ

Seems a strange setup, when the bike is in neutral the oil light comes on when pressing the start button. PO says when bike not in neutral it comes on before pressing start.

Either way seems to turn over OK. Battery is cactus though so is on charge, can't see why it won't run so here's hoping with a bit of zing she'll fire up.

For people who have done rings before is it a struggle to get it going the first time? just curious because I'm not sure what is normal and what isn't. The bandit had new rings but due to valve issues we had to push start.

 

Hmm... interesting problem. It was cranking a little until the battery went flat. Now the battery is charged I press start it sparked at the positive terminal and blew the starter relay 30A fuse. Swapped in the FZR one and did the same thing but didn't blow the fuse. Weird because i didn't change anything.

 

Sure does, did that many times when I timed it.

 

So now I'm mega confused. The starter coil clicks when the button is pressed but sparks at the starter motor terminal. I hooked it up to my spare SM (FZR250 is the same) and it sparked at the mounting bolt.

There's no fuse box I can see on this bike and there's only 2 fuses, a 5A which is labelled "fuser" and the 30A on the starter circuit - neither of which are blown.

I did take the starter motor cover off and yes the engine still turns by hand however the rod that held the intermediate gear (between the starter motor and crank gear) was missing... it must have fell out and i didn't notice as the gear was still in place. Luckily none of the teeth are chewed but I suspect the initial problem may have been that gear jamming and the SM unable to turn... but when I fixed all that the bike doesn't even crank now the coil just clicks and that's it.

Confusing because it was cranking before all of this started and there's no other fuses I can see nor any melted wires/other problems - everything seems to operate as it should. Boy I love electrical troubleshooting...

 

@Andych No. I rested it against the engine (where the connecting bolts are) in case it needed an earth, and it just sparked where it touched (when the button was pressed). This is the FZR starter motor one I know works (it's the same as the FZ)

@my67xr Possibly but I hooked up my spare solenoid and either it is dead as well or that's not the issue. Same thing happens, first try it sparks, second and subsequent times it just clicks and does nothing else.

 

Thanks for the thoughts I'll have a close look soon.

 

Today was a good day. Cleaned all the contacts and earth on the starter circuit and...

 

Yeh it's got this really weird poppy sound doesn't it? I can't figure out why it's very strange. Have to see what it does with the exhaust back on because I don't think it sounded anything like that. I thrashed the hell out of it at high revs for a couple of minutes and I think I almost blew my ear drums lol

I need to look into the carbies though, the thing will go well for the most part but it doesn't idle steady. I wonder if a set of 2KR carbs will go straight on... otherwise I might struggle to rebuild these. I must remember to check up the manual to see if they're the same. Next stage is to put everything else back on and test ride, she's still registered until Feb 12 so luckily it's still totally legit!

And I imagine Kiff is responsible for the name change. That made me laugh... nice one hahaha