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  • bwarnock
    • Feb 2026
    #1

    gs1100g cuts out

    My gs1100g had been running fine-went to leave on trip and just died one day. Found out that if I gently tap the rectifier my spark resumes and I can start bike. Did put new one on but did not really solve problem. I don't think its the cdi box. If I can get it going its seems to run pretty good. Not sure. bob
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    • LarryA_Texas
      #2
      Originally posted by bwarnock
      My gs1100g had been running fine-went to leave on trip and just died one day. Found out that if I gently tap the rectifier my spark resumes and I can start bike. Did put new one on but did not really solve problem. I don't think its the cdi box. If I can get it going its seems to run pretty good. Not sure. bob
      Just a thought; Check all the ground connections for corrosion and clean them with a corrosion solvent. Tapping the RR unit should have any affect on the unit itself, but you could be inadvertently moving some bad connections.

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        • BigLou
          #3
          I was thinking it could be a bad ground as well.

          Good luck.

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            • Redman
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              • Mar 2004
              • 13723
              • Michigan, west Michigan
              #4
              Bob,

              tell us more.

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              http://webpages.charter.net/ddvrnr/GS850_1100_Emblems.jpg
              Had 850G for 14 years. Now have GK since 2005.
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                • Guest
                  #5
                  Tapping on the R/R will have no effect on the spark. Weird coincidence that it seems to work.
                  How do you know the igniter is good?

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                    • shadowfist
                      #6
                      Yeah, i agree tapping the R/R should have no affect on the R/R especially when you replaced it and it does it on another one.

                      it DEFINATELY sounds like you are jostleing a loose connection or some bad wiring. check the connections, hook up a DVM to the wires and poke and prod them and see if you can get something to ground out. but it really sounds like you have a connection problem, and it might be as simple as cleaning the connections.

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                        • bwarnock
                          #7
                          thankyou---I ended up cutting back the covering on the wiring harness and separating wires and wiping down and it seems to have solved the problem. I think it would be good to perhaps replace harness but looks like it is discontinued?

                          thx Bob

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