BButch
New Member
G’day all!!
Would appreciate some thoughts on a fault I’m working on…
I just purchased this FZ6, 08, from auction, crashed
Headlight, Speedo, ignition barrel, immobiliser etc all gone, smashed off. Just severed wires where it all was really. Sound good?!
Then I took a punt on China and threw some AliExpress items at it like an ignition barrel set, immobiliser emulator, (a heap of other bits too) to be somewhere near trying to start the engine…
I eventually got it running. (Amazed)
Took it for a test ride with its nicely bent handle bars, it was misfiring intermittently.
Mostly at low rpm. But pretty bad.
Fuel smelt ok but I pulled the tank off and pump out, and got some water out of the fuel tank, 100-200ml or so.
I was sure this would be the issue!!
Refit tank, fresh fuel, fuel system cleaner additive in, optimistic test ride, fault remains the same. Still misfiring.
Pulled coils, leads and plugs.
No observed obvious problem with plugs, coils both have same resistance across terminals.
Leads and caps resistance readings were not very conclusive, eventually on third multimeter I could get roughly 9.5 ohms on 3 of them, I struggled to get a reliable reading out of no1 cap, (which had white powdery deposits in it, suss) but eventually I sometimes got a similar reading out of it.
Gave everything a really good clean up, reassemble, much better!
Still misfires at take off more often than not, but it is improved slightly, and although isn’t perfect elsewhere, it’s much better.
So!!
I’m leaning towards replacing the caps and plugs minimum, perhaps the whole lot depending on price.
And I would much appreciate any recommendations of parts/suppliers ( I’m in Western Australia), or if you think I should do something else!!
Cheers!!!!
Would appreciate some thoughts on a fault I’m working on…
I just purchased this FZ6, 08, from auction, crashed
Headlight, Speedo, ignition barrel, immobiliser etc all gone, smashed off. Just severed wires where it all was really. Sound good?!
Then I took a punt on China and threw some AliExpress items at it like an ignition barrel set, immobiliser emulator, (a heap of other bits too) to be somewhere near trying to start the engine…
I eventually got it running. (Amazed)
Took it for a test ride with its nicely bent handle bars, it was misfiring intermittently.
Mostly at low rpm. But pretty bad.
Fuel smelt ok but I pulled the tank off and pump out, and got some water out of the fuel tank, 100-200ml or so.
I was sure this would be the issue!!
Refit tank, fresh fuel, fuel system cleaner additive in, optimistic test ride, fault remains the same. Still misfiring.
Pulled coils, leads and plugs.
No observed obvious problem with plugs, coils both have same resistance across terminals.
Leads and caps resistance readings were not very conclusive, eventually on third multimeter I could get roughly 9.5 ohms on 3 of them, I struggled to get a reliable reading out of no1 cap, (which had white powdery deposits in it, suss) but eventually I sometimes got a similar reading out of it.
Gave everything a really good clean up, reassemble, much better!
Still misfires at take off more often than not, but it is improved slightly, and although isn’t perfect elsewhere, it’s much better.
So!!
I’m leaning towards replacing the caps and plugs minimum, perhaps the whole lot depending on price.
And I would much appreciate any recommendations of parts/suppliers ( I’m in Western Australia), or if you think I should do something else!!
Cheers!!!!
