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yeesh, my bike just left me stranded in the rain

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Maybe your bike just doesnt like rain...

Ok, serious now, how about the defeat switch in the clutch lever? Being on the handlebars I would think its very susceptible to even a light drizzle.
 
dont know if it will help you or not but i had a very similar problem with truck this winter. Basically whenever it would rain I couldnt get it to start... but as soon as it was dry, it would start right up again. I wasnt about to go troubleshooting in the pouring rain, so I took a water bottle and put the truck in my garage. First I check to make sure it started fine... then went piece by piece with the water bottle until it wouldnt start again, and whatever I last sprayed, I new was causing the problem. Ended up being my wires.
HTH

Kenny
 
I was gonna do that this weekend haa.

I hear you about not wanting to do it in the rain though, I wanted to kick over my bike and walk home after 45min in a downpour last night...
 
VinnySem said:
Maybe your bike just doesnt like rain...

Ok, serious now, how about the defeat switch in the clutch lever? Being on the handlebars I would think its very susceptible to even a light drizzle.
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I will check that, the PO disabled it, but there is electrical tape on it so maybe its exposed, who knows?
 
well, it's not the ground. ran a new one and it still did it.

Brought my multimeter with me this time, the relay trigger is only putting out 0.20 volts when you hit the start button, obviously something is either keeping it from going 12v (clutch lockout?) or the wire is toast...

As the clutch lockout never worked, and it appears to be a "fail open" type cicuit I am leaning more towards the start wire being toast, because the PO must have disabled the lockout. Weird part is it ohms out fine, meh troubleshooting wiring that is all wadded up under tape and covers sure is a pain!

I will try to find some time to run a new one soon. for now its screwdriver across the terminals every time it rains...
 
Run new wires to and from start button. If you don't want to open up the stock harness this is the easy way. It just to wires.
 
I disabled my clutch lockout also, but using spade connectors and dielectric grease. I could share some nightmare PO stories. He installed a new r/r, but didnt connect it to ground. Brilliant!
 
VinnySem said:
Maybe your bike just doesnt like rain...

Ok, serious now, how about the defeat switch in the clutch lever? Being on the handlebars I would think its very susceptible to even a light drizzle.
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ding ding ding! We have a winnah!

I am not sure how the bike EVER started to be honest, with the "continuity beep" setting on my multimeter it was going "beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep b-b-b-b-b-b-eeeepp" you get the idea, touching the lever made it even worse, I gues it was shorting and opening so much that it was fast enough to start?

Weird part to me still is the switch failed "closed" and when it got wet, failed "open". If anything I would suspect the opposite.

I do say it was nice of suzuki to predict this issue and privide male/female connectors to make it super easy to bypass!

Poured rain today, starts just fine, of course coming to work freezing cold with a soaked crotch is something I thought I left in my college days ha ha:rolleyes:
 
Crazy, that's what my starting issue last week ended up being as well!
 
it was a "slap your forehead" moment for sure, but I sure was stumped for a while.

I work in the electronics feild too, embarassing... :-$
 
dont feel so bad. After my bike went down and i had to replace the lever i never even thought to check the switch. So after the bike wouldnt start i ended up tearing the clutches apart trying to figure it out, i realized the switch had broken as well. Not a fun few days.
 
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