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im sure its been known that ive had another project for a good bit of time now, i picked it up right before i started school so i dont work on it too often, and i already have a riding bike im not afraid to take anywhere so the motive to get this one up and running isnt as present this time around.
ill just give a "brief" description of what it is doing and what i have done to try and get it going. right away the first thing i did was take off the carbs, i couldnt even see where the jets were because this mudlike substance was caked over them, and gas resin was all over the inside of the carbs, but its nothing an ultrasonic couldnt take care of and now the carbs look brand new. i figured id get a battery right after because if i have spark and i have a pair of clean carbs, well the thing should run. i hooked up a battery and everything electronically turned on and worked except the headlight but thats not a big worry to me, i figured id press the starter button to see if it can spin the motor by itself and $#!% it all turned off, i clicked the key back and forth a bunch of times and still nothing, so now i have to do a bunch of testing. i checked all my fuses and ran resistance tests on all of them and they all passed, i tested my relays and they all worked ($75 a piece i damn sure hoped they worked), i skipped the solenoid and my starter motor worked, i tested the solenoid and it worked, i also tested the headlight bulb and it worked both normal and brights, so far this is going great as i havent needed to replace anything on the bike. i also changed the main ground for the battery as recommended by another owner and i put the battery back on the bike and now i had working brake lights, working turn signals, a neutral light, and horn, but everything else still wasnt working, and this time when i pressed my starter button nothing happened so atleast i didnt get myself back to stage 1. i started doing resistance testing along the headlight module and also my starter/killswitch module and all of the testing is coming back great so nothing seems to be broken, i was about to start screwing with these bit of jerry-rigged wires in the headlight loom that i assumed were all ground circuits (basically i was about to mess with crap i didnt need to touch) but i finally got a reply from somebody on the virago forum that said he is having the exact same issue and it turned out he had a faulty kickstand safety switch causing all this trouble, wala.
this being said, either from a mechanic or just a riders perspective, do you like having these safety switches? i know its just one more from the GS since they both have clutch switches but this thing almost had me doing stuff that i never would have needed to do. now its gonna be one of the first things i check with other future bikes but it almost caused me a long lasting battle of what the hell is wrong with this bike.
i think the GS wiring is so much better than the viragos, this one draws alot more amperage and it is a good bit more confusing to follow than the GS, the thing has like 7 or 8 relays on it.
also school is going good, i always seem to have extra time on my hands and am starting up motors that have never been started before, and im also building display boards for the class for the future years, i just recently built an ignition system display board and its able to be hooked up to a drill to spin the rotor opening and closing the point causing the spark, adding that in was extra but is alot better than just manually opening the point by hand. all the things we've done in class have been very easy for me to do, and alot of it is because the GS so im very glad i ended up picking up somebody elses project and finishing it because without that i probably wouldve never ended up where im at and i say that in a positive way no doubt. i guess this is a bit off topic from the post but plenty of posts end up going off track anyways.
ill just give a "brief" description of what it is doing and what i have done to try and get it going. right away the first thing i did was take off the carbs, i couldnt even see where the jets were because this mudlike substance was caked over them, and gas resin was all over the inside of the carbs, but its nothing an ultrasonic couldnt take care of and now the carbs look brand new. i figured id get a battery right after because if i have spark and i have a pair of clean carbs, well the thing should run. i hooked up a battery and everything electronically turned on and worked except the headlight but thats not a big worry to me, i figured id press the starter button to see if it can spin the motor by itself and $#!% it all turned off, i clicked the key back and forth a bunch of times and still nothing, so now i have to do a bunch of testing. i checked all my fuses and ran resistance tests on all of them and they all passed, i tested my relays and they all worked ($75 a piece i damn sure hoped they worked), i skipped the solenoid and my starter motor worked, i tested the solenoid and it worked, i also tested the headlight bulb and it worked both normal and brights, so far this is going great as i havent needed to replace anything on the bike. i also changed the main ground for the battery as recommended by another owner and i put the battery back on the bike and now i had working brake lights, working turn signals, a neutral light, and horn, but everything else still wasnt working, and this time when i pressed my starter button nothing happened so atleast i didnt get myself back to stage 1. i started doing resistance testing along the headlight module and also my starter/killswitch module and all of the testing is coming back great so nothing seems to be broken, i was about to start screwing with these bit of jerry-rigged wires in the headlight loom that i assumed were all ground circuits (basically i was about to mess with crap i didnt need to touch) but i finally got a reply from somebody on the virago forum that said he is having the exact same issue and it turned out he had a faulty kickstand safety switch causing all this trouble, wala.
this being said, either from a mechanic or just a riders perspective, do you like having these safety switches? i know its just one more from the GS since they both have clutch switches but this thing almost had me doing stuff that i never would have needed to do. now its gonna be one of the first things i check with other future bikes but it almost caused me a long lasting battle of what the hell is wrong with this bike.
i think the GS wiring is so much better than the viragos, this one draws alot more amperage and it is a good bit more confusing to follow than the GS, the thing has like 7 or 8 relays on it.
also school is going good, i always seem to have extra time on my hands and am starting up motors that have never been started before, and im also building display boards for the class for the future years, i just recently built an ignition system display board and its able to be hooked up to a drill to spin the rotor opening and closing the point causing the spark, adding that in was extra but is alot better than just manually opening the point by hand. all the things we've done in class have been very easy for me to do, and alot of it is because the GS so im very glad i ended up picking up somebody elses project and finishing it because without that i probably wouldve never ended up where im at and i say that in a positive way no doubt. i guess this is a bit off topic from the post but plenty of posts end up going off track anyways.
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