jessie928
05-02-2008, 09:48am
Gidday,
i thought to share a little dillema i had recently when i went on a weekend ride with mates.
we left home sparrow fart ( 5.45am ) on saturday, riding on a few different roads, all up between swimming, eating and riding we managed about 500km's of good fun!
topped the afternoon off with a sunset swim in the ocean, and walked up the beach back to the cabin and spent the evening chatting, snacking and sucking on a Nargile ( shisha) overlooking the beach.
Sunday, had our long morning swim, and started uwiliningly packing for the 11am checkout time, we were out of the cabin around 10.30 where we took some last minute pics of the bikes packed ready to head home. This is where my dillemma started.
NO KEY? cant find it anywhere! the cabin was ransacked, everyones gear was ransacked, we scoured the ground outside the cabin, and i nearly tipped the bike upside down and shook it to see if it fell out of somewhere.nope, NO KEY. To make it worse, i left the ignition in the LOCK position, no steering....
anyway, i tried a mates suzuki key, jiggling my lock, no go. gave it a rest, pondered possible non lethal solutions, and then gave it another shot. After a good 20 mins i managed to jiggle the ignition into the OFF position and kept trying for some ignition, by this time another 20-30 mins had passed- no luck.
so i started pulling the covers off to gain access to the loom, Bugger it, i'll short circuit the ignition. So i splice the wires, pull the plug out and try this, try that, 5 wires in all possible configurations and no luck. FI light flashing....
then i find someome with internet, do a search, and find out that ECU/start system has a theft prevention device, a 100ohm resistor has to be bridged into the wires.
By now its about 1pm in a small coastal town, the possibility of my finding a 100ohm resistor is pretty slim, but i try my luck and through a bloke i met at a servo i manage to get hold of the local electronics guru, but he is shut ( obviously). but luckily, my bloke give me his home address, and i go banging on the guru's door. I explain my predicament and he forages through his stuff and hands me 2 resistors, refuses to take any money.
anyhow back at the ranch, i wire in the resistor, we have ignition.
ETA liftoff 20mins.
We hit the road, thrilled that i dont have to park my bike hundreds of k's from home and get a lift back on one of the other bikes to return with a spare key,
On the road again! After a while riding we pull in at a servo ready to fill them up and take the scenic route home.
The split second i open the sidestand, it hits me like a freight train, NO KEY for the fuel lid!
!@#$!@#$
try jiggling fot half an hour, nope.
does not budge, its impossible to get the bastard open by any means other than breaking the lock ( and i would rather drive 5000km's on a moped to fetch the key , than take to Busra with a hammer/drill/screwdriver)
i ponder my options, fill from the overflow, slowly slowly, this would be painstaking as there would be no venting.
nope, tanks coming off, and i will fill it from the sender. Anyhow, i pull the tank, flip it, remove the sender and fill her up. put it back on, fire her up and voila, i have a full bike. :)
i dont wanto do this again, so we donot take the scenic route and i pray to god that Busra can get home 320km's on 1 tank of gas ( even though she is running like a pig ( need new pump and injector clean) and slamming down the unleaded fast.
so back on the road,
EDIT. after 2km's the bikes splutters and grinds to a halt.... i think what could be the issue, kinked lines perhaps?
NOPE, fuel petcock left in off position.. :), fix that issue aswell, ( user error)
back back on d road, and i i baby her, keeping the average consumption at 17.2km/s per litre, which is an absolute first ( and hopefully last) for me.
anyway, we got there in the end, it took over double the amount of time it should have taken but got there none the less.
+1 for not deserting the ship :)
cheers,
JEs
i thought to share a little dillema i had recently when i went on a weekend ride with mates.
we left home sparrow fart ( 5.45am ) on saturday, riding on a few different roads, all up between swimming, eating and riding we managed about 500km's of good fun!
topped the afternoon off with a sunset swim in the ocean, and walked up the beach back to the cabin and spent the evening chatting, snacking and sucking on a Nargile ( shisha) overlooking the beach.
Sunday, had our long morning swim, and started uwiliningly packing for the 11am checkout time, we were out of the cabin around 10.30 where we took some last minute pics of the bikes packed ready to head home. This is where my dillemma started.
NO KEY? cant find it anywhere! the cabin was ransacked, everyones gear was ransacked, we scoured the ground outside the cabin, and i nearly tipped the bike upside down and shook it to see if it fell out of somewhere.nope, NO KEY. To make it worse, i left the ignition in the LOCK position, no steering....
anyway, i tried a mates suzuki key, jiggling my lock, no go. gave it a rest, pondered possible non lethal solutions, and then gave it another shot. After a good 20 mins i managed to jiggle the ignition into the OFF position and kept trying for some ignition, by this time another 20-30 mins had passed- no luck.
so i started pulling the covers off to gain access to the loom, Bugger it, i'll short circuit the ignition. So i splice the wires, pull the plug out and try this, try that, 5 wires in all possible configurations and no luck. FI light flashing....
then i find someome with internet, do a search, and find out that ECU/start system has a theft prevention device, a 100ohm resistor has to be bridged into the wires.
By now its about 1pm in a small coastal town, the possibility of my finding a 100ohm resistor is pretty slim, but i try my luck and through a bloke i met at a servo i manage to get hold of the local electronics guru, but he is shut ( obviously). but luckily, my bloke give me his home address, and i go banging on the guru's door. I explain my predicament and he forages through his stuff and hands me 2 resistors, refuses to take any money.
anyhow back at the ranch, i wire in the resistor, we have ignition.
ETA liftoff 20mins.
We hit the road, thrilled that i dont have to park my bike hundreds of k's from home and get a lift back on one of the other bikes to return with a spare key,
On the road again! After a while riding we pull in at a servo ready to fill them up and take the scenic route home.
The split second i open the sidestand, it hits me like a freight train, NO KEY for the fuel lid!
!@#$!@#$
try jiggling fot half an hour, nope.
does not budge, its impossible to get the bastard open by any means other than breaking the lock ( and i would rather drive 5000km's on a moped to fetch the key , than take to Busra with a hammer/drill/screwdriver)
i ponder my options, fill from the overflow, slowly slowly, this would be painstaking as there would be no venting.
nope, tanks coming off, and i will fill it from the sender. Anyhow, i pull the tank, flip it, remove the sender and fill her up. put it back on, fire her up and voila, i have a full bike. :)
i dont wanto do this again, so we donot take the scenic route and i pray to god that Busra can get home 320km's on 1 tank of gas ( even though she is running like a pig ( need new pump and injector clean) and slamming down the unleaded fast.
so back on the road,
EDIT. after 2km's the bikes splutters and grinds to a halt.... i think what could be the issue, kinked lines perhaps?
NOPE, fuel petcock left in off position.. :), fix that issue aswell, ( user error)
back back on d road, and i i baby her, keeping the average consumption at 17.2km/s per litre, which is an absolute first ( and hopefully last) for me.
anyway, we got there in the end, it took over double the amount of time it should have taken but got there none the less.
+1 for not deserting the ship :)
cheers,
JEs
thats murphys law with a happy ending