| Author | Message | ||
     Telewoodski |
So I took the bike apart this winter and took a look at everything. I took it down to the engine, but didn't venture farther than that. I put it all back together and it was looking good till I put the key in and tried to start it. The check engine light doesn't come on, and the digital display doesn't either. So I'm thinking that the ECM doesn't have power. I pull out the 12 volt tester and I have a good ground to the chassis, a good ground on the steering head, but not to the front fairing mount. So I'm missing a ground wire to the fairing. I did remove the part of the wiring harness that was left over after the race kit was installed. That harness had a ground on it, but it looked like it didn't go anywhere. Does that ground actually ground the fairing mount? I'm going to pull the fairing off tonight and check the wiring. I'm always wishing that the fuel pump didn't make so much noise when I turned the key on, now I'm missing it.  | ||
| Cataract2 |
Don't you hate that? Wish I could help you more. Just go over it from start to finish checking everything. If all else, pull out the Service Manual and using the wiring diagrams to give you a starting point. | ||
| Adamcooney |
How hard was it with the service manual to rip everything down to the engine? I want to rip the bike down this winter to get the frame/wheels/swingarm/forks/etc. powdercoated and various other things but just wondering how on a scale of 1-10 lets say is the difficulity with 10 being hardest. | ||
| Telewoodski |
It wasn't too bad. The biggest thing that I can suggest is to have a way to suspend the bike, I have a hang point in my garage that actually comes off the mount for the garage door opener. It was great having a way to hang the bike and not rely on a jack stand or wheel stands. Overall I'd rate it a 6 as far as difficulty. I'm an OK wrench, and end up doing this with every bike I get. The XB is an amazing piece. The way it's laid out. All of the electrical connectors are thought out, you can't really connect anything wrong. There is a set of allen bolts that are close to the same length that I had to go back and switch. I think it was the rear tail section mount bolts and the rear caliper mounts, that were close to each other in length. Other than that it was pretty easy. I did spend a lot of time doing it over the winter, but that's what I wanted to do. Now I'm pretty sure I could do just about anything with it that I want. Then next time, next winter, I do it it will be to do a bunch of powder coat. I also want to do some trick stuff with the wiring harness. Add some woven stainless steel to some of the spots that have the woven fabric and silver plastic wrap on it. Mostly the visible stuff, like the rear brake, the TPS and injector feeds. Maybe the fuel feed from the pump to the Injector. I want to add that aircraft quality look to it. | ||
| Mountainbiker90 |
It all depends on your skills (and tools). It requires just about every allen and torx size known. I tore mine down this past winter and it wasn't bad for me. I made sure to label all the wiring and the hardware with tape and a marker as I tore it all apart. This saved me the problem noted above. I did it w/out a manual- though having one may help. If you haven't done much in the way of mechanical work, I'd leave it to someone else, lest you end up with the all too common basket case. | ||
| Alanshouse |
My father just bought a couple ovens and opened a powdercoat business. I plan to tear mine down this coming winter and do some coloring. I hope it doesn't end up too hard. | ||
| Adamcooney |
I'm really good with knowing what I take apart and putting it back on. Plus I have a few friends who are good at that stuff so I'll have them help me out with it too. Yeah I'm gonna try to hide as much wiring as possible and anything that's showing do in stainless steel braided line and whatnot. I wanna do pretty much everything in black with a few chrome accents and carbon fiber everything else. Should be sick when it's done, in the next year or two I figure. | ||
| Telewoodski |
So I figured it out, I had to move the two ground wires back to the frame where they belong. She started up just fine, and it looks like I wont even need to do a TPS reset. Woohoo, back on the road again. Thread closed.... |
