Got some nice chemical metal sticky filling stuff today, so filled the nasty holes in the rad. While waiting for it to go off, I put some fuel in tried for a start on the engine.
Battery attached and ignition on, FI light is on but that's to be expected after the work that's been done so far. Hit the starter and she's turning over very well but no fire up. Checked the fuel pump comes on but seems to go off quickly, fuel level seems to be enough to run.
So I went for the carb cleaner start to isolate a fuel problem, squirt a bit in the airbox and it started but stopped. So no fuel.
Probably has something to do with the FI light and fault code that's showing, so for the first time it's out with the manual. Fault code shows tip over sensor tripped. Easy enough, has a look at the TOS and it seems some idiot had placed it upside down.
Teach me not to read the (in raised large letters) this way up bit.
That clears the fault, I know there are a few more on the history but none are engine stop faults. So I hit the button again.....
She fires up first try.
Turned off and refitted the rad and hoses, filled the coolant and started again, fired up straight away steady tick over and not one grindy rattly or ticky sound to be heard. Apart from the lack of silencers it sounds as sweet as a nut, so I cycled it through the gears. No probs there all five snick in nicely with no sign of snatch in the clutch.
As it warms it's a bit hesitant on the throttle and the tick over is a bit high as the adjuster was needed to keep it running but the FI light is on still, so checked the code and it comes up as a coil fault. Now as most FI systems are fussy blighters the first thing to check is that the connections are good, quick clean and a wiggle then run diagnostic check on the coils. Sorted FI light now goes out with the ignition on start the motor and it's running alot sweeter. I wind the adjust all the way out to check it still ticks over and it's fine. Reset the adjuster and blip the throttle very crisp and drops off as quick as it picks up, all good.
First vid is cold start.
It's a very smooth running motor, but that might have something to do with 2 balancer shafts or me having got used to a V twin
So it's all good in the engine department in fact, alot better than I would have thought, also sounds great without the silencers.
With the motor now running I can strip it all down and get on with the real work.
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