After putting over 700 miles on the bike since I finished it, it left me stranded on the 405 South during rush hour Monday morning. Almost...
There is nothing quite like going along at 65 or so in the carpool lane and it shuts off as if I had hit the kill switch.
Pulled the clutch, looked over my right shoulder and somehow made it to the right shoulder without getting run over. I did not want to stop in the carpool lane.
This was in Long Beach, about 1/2 mile before the 710 interchange.
Anyway, no tools and the nearest off ramp is about a 1/4 mile behind me, or 1/2 mile ahead, just to get to the 710.
Opened the gas cap, no sucking sound and plenty of gas.
Cranks over fine, but won't start. Fuel pump is running when I hit the starter button, and if I turn the kill switch off it won't crank.
Who am I gonna call. My son has the truck at school, so the next choice would be one of my buddies at work.
Before I fish my phone out of my pocket I try one more time and it fires up. WTF ?
So I chance it and proceed to work in the slow lane, about another 10 miles from where it died. Couple of hiccups on the way, but didn't die.
Park it at work, and at lunch see if it starts. It does, no problem.
But I didn't trust it and got a ride home from one of my work friends.
Finally, last night I had a chance to do some troubleshooting, looking for loose grounds, bad connections, what have you. Find nothing amiss. All the plug ins are tight, no chafed wires that I could see, just everything the way it is supposed to be.
It fires up no problem, idles, accepts throttle. Again, WTF ?
I leave it running for a while and when it gets into the 140s F water temp, I give it a couple good throttle blips and it dies.
Takes a few minutes to start again, just like on the freeway. Blip the throttle again, and it dies again but this time takes longer to restart.
Pull plug wires off the coil a bit, to check if I can hear arcing. I do for 2/3 but not 1/4.
Pull the spark plug to confirm, but by that time it had cooled enough to start again.
Blip the throttle till it dies, yank the #1 plug and no spark.
Hall Sensor.
Have you looked up prices for one of those lately ?
Over $600 from BMW, $400 on eBay, used ones for $200 plus.
Called The Partshaus, used BMW parts emporium in Long Beach that I've been dealing with for years, and he sells me one for $120.
Thank you very much Joshua.
Installed the new to me sensor and went for a 15 mile ride.
Runs like a top.
(Sorry about the long winded post
