Re: [St] The Dreaded "No Start" Syndrome

["Welsh, Jay (GE Infra, Aviation, US)" <jay.welsh@xxxxxx>]

 Courtesy of Rupert Galea's webpage...   http://www.rgalea.com/bikes/st/

http://www.rgalea.com/bikes/st/my_st.html

- On the morning of August 14th (28,335 miles) I went to leave for a two
day trip. As I went to push the bike off its center stand it died. I
wiggled the key and got the lights to come back on started it up again
and went to push it of the stand and it died again. Then I could only
get the lights to come on if I turned the steering all the way to the
left. I figured it was a short or a loose connection so tugged on a few
wires. After doing this the lights would not come on at all. I was
almost ready to give up when I pulled back the sheath around the wires
going into the ignition switch and saw that two of the wires were cut.
There was a recall to re-route the wires to the ignition switch on some
ST's because of this exact problem. The original owner told me that the
ignition switch was changed to try and cure another problem (I have two
keys). I still do not know if the wires were routed properly when the
dealer installed this switch.

http://www.rgalea.com/bikes/st/images/ignition.jpg


Jay
'00 ST

-----Original Message-----
From: st-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:st-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terry Lewis
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:24 AM
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [St] The Dreaded "No Start" Syndrome

I had a similar problem  with my '00 RS a couple of years ago. It turned
out to be a short in the left hand switch gear, which was replaced.
Don't know if that's your issue, but if it happened on one, it might
happen on others.

Terry Lewis
00 Sprint RS


On 5/29/08, Nathan Maher <nate@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So, I commuted to work on the bike yesterday and all was right with 
> the world.  When I went to leave work I use through the usual launch 
> prep and when it came time to thumb the starter I got a slight click 
> sound and all the electrics went out.  Frack.  So I reset the key to 
> the start position and prayed that the bike gods wouldn't leave me 
> stranded at work and this time when I hit the go button it fired like
normal.
>
> This morning, hoping to once again use the bike for its intended 
> purpose I got ready to leave and unfortunately got nothing for my 
> efforts. Pushing the starter button shut the whole works down, 
> seemingly for good.  No fire, no turnover, no nothing.  Resetting the 
> key from off to start also had no effect for a long time and then 
> finally it lit the dash again.  However, it still refused to do so 
> much as turnover.  :(
>
> I've checked the connections at the battery and they are tight and
clean.
>  Voltage at the battery is good (it's less than a year old) and 
> everything else is visually fine.  So I figure I'm probably yet 
> another victim of the shorted wire business that seems to afflict many

> members. Can someone recommend any trouble shooting to try before I 
> bring it to the dealer and they liberate me from large sums of $$?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nate
> 00SprintRS
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