Hi well it's been awhile but I finally have a problem. Anything electrical is a head scratch for me. So last August I was out hammering away on my 250, stock but with the Vape ignition and all the sudden she died. No lights,spark just died booting down the road in maybe 4th or 5th gear. So that never happened before and I almost forgot about that blue wire to the relay. Disconnected it and back in business, bike was running and I made it back home although with no lights. Tore into the matter of the bike dying and I simply couldn't find a shorted wire just looking at the wire harness from the headlight bucket back to the battery.
Although before all this happened I did lose function of my turn signals but I think that maybe a bad flasher relay?...can't imagine that it's related to the bike running.Well I finally discovered the main fuse blown and also that the mounting bolts for my coil pack were loose. So I tightened up those mounting bolts and chalked it up to that having something to do with the main fuse blowing.
Fast forward to the other day and after installing a new clutch cable and clutch lever as well as a quick disconnect/fuel lines I took the bike for a ride. The bike started fine and all lights working except the turn signals that I forgot about fixing. You know just a cold start for a couple minutes with some moderate revving of the engine no more than 2k to 3k on the tach. Ok she's warmed up and take off booting down the road ripping thru the gears ...Well about twenty seconds into it more or less she just dies again just like last August when it happened then. Same deal blown main fuse and simply disconnect the blue wire and I was able to ride away in style minus the lights.
Remember I am admittedly an electrical dummy But I did do a search on this forum and read the thread that Blue400 started regarding his issue with a blown main fuse. Sounded similar to mine with exception that I am blowing the fuse while ripping thru the gears. He stated that his was blowing with the bike not running. It was mentioned that a possible culprit could be a very old battery. My battery is from 2018, when I bought it new for my Honda Ruckus, a Sealed AGM type. So I guess you could say it's old. Now the Vape ignition I bought a couple years later and I believe it has the newer regulator/rectifier with built in capacitor. Not sure like I say if I may have over extended my time using this old battery but will say that it seems to respond well to holding a charge from my battery tender. Also when I connected the postive/negative terminal leads to the battery I got a quick momentary spark which it would always do before this blown main fuse issue.
So any thoughts on this?...do I need to look more carefully for a shorted wire somewhere in the harness? Would the turn signals not working be related to this?...I think that sounds silly but I will say ever since they had stopped working I think I noticed that there is no clicking from I believe was the original flasher relay. Anyways the fuse is wired between the battery and the reg./rec. and....I just don't know where to go from here.
At least the bike still runs if I disconnect the blue wire from the relay.
Although before all this happened I did lose function of my turn signals but I think that maybe a bad flasher relay?...can't imagine that it's related to the bike running.Well I finally discovered the main fuse blown and also that the mounting bolts for my coil pack were loose. So I tightened up those mounting bolts and chalked it up to that having something to do with the main fuse blowing.
Fast forward to the other day and after installing a new clutch cable and clutch lever as well as a quick disconnect/fuel lines I took the bike for a ride. The bike started fine and all lights working except the turn signals that I forgot about fixing. You know just a cold start for a couple minutes with some moderate revving of the engine no more than 2k to 3k on the tach. Ok she's warmed up and take off booting down the road ripping thru the gears ...Well about twenty seconds into it more or less she just dies again just like last August when it happened then. Same deal blown main fuse and simply disconnect the blue wire and I was able to ride away in style minus the lights.
Remember I am admittedly an electrical dummy But I did do a search on this forum and read the thread that Blue400 started regarding his issue with a blown main fuse. Sounded similar to mine with exception that I am blowing the fuse while ripping thru the gears. He stated that his was blowing with the bike not running. It was mentioned that a possible culprit could be a very old battery. My battery is from 2018, when I bought it new for my Honda Ruckus, a Sealed AGM type. So I guess you could say it's old. Now the Vape ignition I bought a couple years later and I believe it has the newer regulator/rectifier with built in capacitor. Not sure like I say if I may have over extended my time using this old battery but will say that it seems to respond well to holding a charge from my battery tender. Also when I connected the postive/negative terminal leads to the battery I got a quick momentary spark which it would always do before this blown main fuse issue.
So any thoughts on this?...do I need to look more carefully for a shorted wire somewhere in the harness? Would the turn signals not working be related to this?...I think that sounds silly but I will say ever since they had stopped working I think I noticed that there is no clicking from I believe was the original flasher relay. Anyways the fuse is wired between the battery and the reg./rec. and....I just don't know where to go from here.
At least the bike still runs if I disconnect the blue wire from the relay.