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Posted: 08:29 - 13 Jul 2021 Post subject: zx9r c2 intermittent starting problem |
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Eh up everyone -
My bike's a C2 with 85k on it and runs and rides very well. But for the last couple of years it's developed a fault when starting. This happens hot and cold, but ironically does seem somewhat less prone in winter (!).
Symptoms are: key in barrel, turn key, thumb starter, cranks but yet I know - I just can tell - it's not going to fire up. My usual cure is simply to turn the key back to off, and then back to start, and this one simple thing is 90% of the time enough to correct the starter system and the bike fires up as it should do - almost instantly.
This problem arises on or off choke.
Lately the problem's increased in regularity and developed a couple of new twists. Firstly, it'll do it four or five times in a row before it "corrects" itself with the key-back-to-off 'trick'. Secondly, it's starting to sound like the battery is shagged when it fails to start.
Now you're going to ask me how old the battery is. I can't tell you for sure. What I can say is I've owned the bike for - what - let's say 4 years. I haven't fitted a battery - I don't think there's a receipt for one in the stuff from the previous owner. Bike had 18k on it when I bought it - which to me suggests it HAS stood underused - which in turn implies it will have had a battery unless it's been Optimated. So I don't know is the short answer. It could be the original though. Me, I run the bike couple hundred miles a week on average, throughout the year.
note - despite not being EFI, this bike has a CPS, it's conjectured that KAwasaki were going to make the switch to injection but delayed it for whatever reason - but regardless, could some sort of CPS problem give the symptoms I'm experiencing? ____________________ "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125
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