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Troubleshooting Coils

ctaliafe@... — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:10:18 GMT

I continue the troubleshooting exercise on my Quota, and may have found a fault. After checking continuity and shorts on all the circuits running from Fuse #1

Re: Transmission Failure - suggestions for plan of attack please.

gtbender1970 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:08:57 GMT

Agreed, Charley Cole is the best. http://www.zydecoracing.com/ Regards, Gregory Bender

Re: Transmission Failure - suggestions for plan of attack please.

George — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:44 GMT

Give the owner of Zydeco a call. We spoke at length about the process and I'm now convinced that when I want to do this, I will send it to him. About 40-50

Re: Troubleshooting / Diagnostics

Charlie Taliaferro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:01:11 GMT

Lario, Thanks. Fortunately, I removed the petcock solenoids several years ago and installed the manual type. Huge improvement. Now that I'm messing with all

Re: Troubleshooting / Diagnostics

Charlie Taliaferro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:52:18 GMT

Sounds like the pump was cavitating - just spinning air. That happens sometimes, as it cannot create enough of a vacuum to pull in the liquid and prime

Re: Troubleshooting / Diagnostics

gtbender1970 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:33:45 GMT

Charlie, this has nothing to do with your Q, but I thought I would share it, anyway... A buddy of mine just bought (from insurance auction) a wrecked 2006 BMW

Re: Transmission Failure - suggestions for plan of attack please.

gtbender1970 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:19:38 GMT

Hi George, I've often wondered if the Q was afflicted with those bearings. Ug. I really ought to go in there and pre-emptively change them out...but that isn't

Re: Transmission Failure - suggestions for plan of attack please.

gtbender1970 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:18:08 GMT

Hi Alan, To diagnose, start from the back and work your way forward. (1) Remove wheel and check bearings (2) Remove rear drive and check how it moves (3)

Re: Troubleshooting / Diagnostics

LarioR — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:01:27 GMT

Charlie, I had a similar problem with my fuses for the electronic petcocks back about 7 years ago. The wiring coming from the bottom of one of the petcocks

Re: Troubleshooting / Diagnostics

Charlie Taliaferro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:23:51 GMT

The "No Charging" condition was a last-minute development in this series of problems, as far as I can tell. I have a voltmeter mounted on the dash, and it was

Re: Transmission Failure - suggestions for plan of attack please.

George — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:42:33 GMT

There is a bearing in the Q transmission that was designed with a steel cage but was replaced with a plastic caged one for some reason nobody quite

Re: Troubleshooting / Diagnostics

George — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:29:52 GMT

When I changed out the headlight to the Yamaha setup, I noticed that the wires on the Q are a lot thinner than the ones used in Japanese bikes and more than

Re: Transmission Failure - suggestions for plan of attack please.

Matt Hitterdal — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:57:41 GMT

Sounds like a U-joint to me, transmissions are pretty tough. ... From: greenslade.alan Subject: [Guzzi_Quota] Transmission

Transmission Failure - suggestions for plan of attack please.

greenslade.alan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:01:41 GMT

Hello Group I was riding my Quota yesterday at about 120 kph and I felt a hash knashing noise and vibration through the RHS footpeg. This went away and then

Re: Troubleshooting / Diagnostics

Erling Pedersen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:47:51 GMT

Coils sounds like an idea, Greg, but burning fuses, hmmn, : One of the pickups at my old Q-engine got a failure when heated up by the oil from the camchain,