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Posted by ChilliDrift
- January 07, 2013, 08:35:45 AMIf you can, try another or new battery. It may be charged. But it may not be putting out enough juice. I'm guessing that will be one common thing. Especially since you said out happened on a cold day. Battery's fail in sudden cold and hot temp changes.
Posted by Aaron Mitchell
- January 07, 2013, 08:31:03 AMStarted out like any other day. I rode it to work and home from work like i do 5 days a week. And then i went to start it before work and a no go.
I was kinda cold, maybe mid 30's and it wouldnt start and i ended up killing the battery.
I charged it up and killed it again, and this was around 45-50 deg outside.
So now ive checked and im getting spark to all the plugs, replaced them with ngk gapped to .08 like i read on the forums, check and i have no fault codes, i hear the fuel pump turn on and prime right up and nothing, tried with and without air filter and even cleaned it then reinstalled.
I read about the tip over switch and at first it wasnt bolted down so the bike seemed to turn over without as much as a sound, now with it in place it make some sound like there is pressure being made but the bike doesnt even attempt to start, just turns over with a slight huff and puff sound.
I would imagine if there was a problem with the fuel injection system it would throw a code, i run premium gas with lucas fuel treatment every other tank.
I dont have a compression tester on hand but i can imagine that being a problem as it has always turned over on the first press of the button, even in the colder weather. I suppose it could have all of a sudden lost compression on both cylinders but i highly doubt it.
I'm not sure what else to check or what could be going on.
Bike is a 99 drifter 1500 with about 72k miles on it, never any trouble until this week.