Hummingbird Posted February 8, 2009 #1 Posted February 8, 2009 My riding buddie (who happens to be computer illiterate) has a 1998 Tour Deluxe with right at 100,000 miles. This past summer while on short rides around our county roads his bike would without warning QUIT. This happened more than several times but only once required trailering home. The one time I was with him when it happened we had just left a restaurant (ice cream) and had traveled less than a mile and it died. Within 3 minutes and without any trouble shooting it started and ran beautiful the rest of the way home. All we did was let it sit with the key off for a couple minutes and it started and away we went. Because of this problem and at the recommendation of our 'factory' mechanic, the carbs were taken off and rebuilt. Sure made a heck of a difference in performance. I'm not sure if the tank was taken off and cleaned or not. I do believe the filter was changed. Unfortunately the dog-gone thing won't mis-behave while in the care of our local Yamaha shop. Any theories or similar circumstances happen to any of you ??
Squeeze Posted February 8, 2009 #2 Posted February 8, 2009 Sounds like the Main Switch to me. They are known to loose Contact and the Bike will be dead. When wiggling on the Key, the Bike will start right up. If this is the Culprit, it needs to be adressed soon, because the Contacts aren't getting any better and there will be a Time when restarting won't work anymore.
GeorgeS Posted February 8, 2009 #3 Posted February 8, 2009 Order a New ignition Switch --- Very common problem.
MoRiverRat Posted February 8, 2009 #4 Posted February 8, 2009 Happened to me - had to have a new ignition put in - they didn't rekey it to match the keys of the bike. Now I have another key to keep track of.
Freebird Posted February 8, 2009 #5 Posted February 8, 2009 Easy solution. Get a new key blank. Take your two keys and have one side of the new blank cut to match one and the other side cut to match the other. Then you are down to one key again.
Hummingbird Posted February 9, 2009 Author #6 Posted February 9, 2009 it never fails to 'crank' it does fail to start
BigBoyinMS Posted February 9, 2009 #7 Posted February 9, 2009 it never fails to 'crank' it does fail to start "Crank" uses a different contact in the switch than "Run" so it is still probably the switch.
Hummingbird Posted February 9, 2009 Author #8 Posted February 9, 2009 Thanks BigBoy - I wasn't aware of that. Thought it was all the same.
RedRider Posted February 9, 2009 #9 Posted February 9, 2009 Something to check before you tear into the main key switch. Check the contacts at the back of the kill switch. It is easy to access. However, now that I think about it, it wouldn't crank if the kill switch was not making contact. Never mind. It is likely the main switch as stated before. There is a procedure on here for removing in replacing the contacts. Do a quick search in the Tech forums. Good luck. RR
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