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From: Ace on 20 Oct 2009 09:42 On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:38:20 +0100, "Mungo \"Two Sheds\" Toadfoot" <eastREMOVEkent(a)gmail.com> wrote: >gummymonkey(a)madeup.com wrote: >> >> Has anyone any suggestion why my 05 Bonneville has this appetite for >> ignition coils. Indecently its also on the 3rd crankshaft pick up, >> this one is a rewind done by west country windings out of better >> insulated wire, so seems to be lasting a bit longer. >> This started just out of warrantee 4.500 miles. >> Using the Gill stuff is like feeding strawberries to a donkey! > >Bad earth(s), alternator overcharging/dodgy voltage regulator, leaking HT >leads/plug caps, plug gaps too big (unlikely but I'm out of ideas now). Not sure of the Bonnie's the same, but the triples are all built with the coil directly on top of the plug, so no HT leads or suppressor caps at all.
From: Hog on 20 Oct 2009 09:49 Ace wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:38:20 +0100, "Mungo \"Two Sheds\" Toadfoot" > <eastREMOVEkent(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> gummymonkey(a)madeup.com wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone any suggestion why my 05 Bonneville has this appetite for >>> ignition coils. Indecently its also on the 3rd crankshaft pick up, >>> this one is a rewind done by west country windings out of better >>> insulated wire, so seems to be lasting a bit longer. >>> This started just out of warrantee 4.500 miles. >>> Using the Gill stuff is like feeding strawberries to a donkey! >> >> Bad earth(s), alternator overcharging/dodgy voltage regulator, >> leaking HT leads/plug caps, plug gaps too big (unlikely but I'm out >> of ideas now). > > Not sure of the Bonnie's the same, but the triples are all built with > the coil directly on top of the plug, so no HT leads or suppressor > caps at all. IME plug top coils are feckin unreliable beasts, including on certain upmarket cages -- Hog
From: crn on 20 Oct 2009 11:58 Hog <hogSPAM(a)freenetchips.co.uk> wrote: > > IME plug top coils are feckin unreliable beasts, including on certain > upmarket cages > Neighbour has had 2 replacement coil packs on his Agila. The AA bloke said they are a very common fault. -- 03 GS500K2 76 Honda 400/4 project 68 Bantam D14/4 Sport (Classic) 06 Sukida SK50QT (Slanty eyed shopping trolley)
From: Pip Luscher on 20 Oct 2009 14:26 On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:20:19 +0100, DozynSleepy <DozynSleepy(a)ireallymeannospam.invalid> wrote: >Pip Luscher wrote: >snip >> >> Yeah, bad electrics was my first guess. >> >> And believe me, having picked up one slightly foxed[1] Guzzi V11 Sport >> last weekend and spent a morning getting it to start reliably, I know >> about these things. >> >> [1] not just foxed, but badgered, beared and gorilla'd too. >> >> >Was this the lurid green one that was advertised a while ago with low >mileage due to an intermittent electrical fault ? Don't thinks so. It is (or was) a fairly lurid green but not the more common colour scheme with matched tail, tank and mudguard: this one has graphite tail & mudguard. I was a bit concerned at first: I thought that maybe the plastics had been replaced with mismatchd ones, but Google reveals that Guzzi did sometimes do V11s with the tank one colour and the rest in another. Intermittent faults on these are often down to the relays - it's a known fault. My other Guzzi uses different pattern relays but they suffer the same problem and need the contacts cleaning every couple of years. I found that the clutch switch and/or its wiring is a weak point as well: I've simply shorted it out for now. >Quite liked the look of it. Opinions seem to be mixed: some like them, some think tthey're ugly. They're certaInly characterful. I sat on one several years ago and I've wanted one for some time. The one I've bought is extremely rough in comparison, but it was /relatively/ cheap. I suspect not in any way a bargain though. -- -Pip
From: Ace on 21 Oct 2009 09:00
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:56:17 +0000 (UTC), "Krusty" <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: >Ace wrote: >> Well I had the centre coil go on my 955i Sprint ST, which is >> essentially the same engine, AFAIUI > >It's not the same as the T4s, which were 885 carb engines. Why do you just refer to it just as a 'T4'? I mean, I guessed it must be a Tiger, but I can't be the only person who hasn't the foggiest idea what model a T4 is. |