LHS
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Hey everyone I need some help/input.
My 2009 Ridgeback 117ci and super G carb intermittently dies when decelerating coming up to a stoplight. It never does it when accelerating or just running down the road Only on deceleration. Normally I’ll just drop down a gear depending on what gear I’m in and how fast I’m going and let out on the clutch and it fires right back up. But sometimes I’m going slow enough that I’ll just roll up to the stop sign hit the start button and it starts right back up.
It has never left me stranded on the side of the road but I’m afraid one day it’s going to.
I’m thinking a loose connection somewhere. Like maybe the crank sensor or maybe a loose connection at the EHC or the right hand control or maybe at the coil.
I have a 2008 service manual which I believe is the same thing as the 2009 ( please correct me if I’m wrong ).
It shows wiring diagrams and troubleshooting flow chart and pretty much everything else on the bike But it doesn’t show me where all these connectors are at.
The coil and the crank sensor plug-ins are pretty much out in the open and so is the EHC So this weekend when I’m off work I’m going to start with those by cleaning the Connectors with contact cleaner and applying dielectric compound and Plugging them back in. That will at least eliminate those unless of course the coil or the crank sensor or the EHC is Going bad but I have never seen A crank sensor or coil intermittently not work when I wrenched on cars at the dealership for a side job. Either they fail or they don’t But I’m definitely no expert in the BDM field so please correct me if I’m wrong. As for the EHC I also don’t know if it can intermittently not work.
Was also curious if anyone else has had this intermittent problem and what their fix was and if anyone could tell me where to find / locate the plug-ins that could cause this problem.
Maybe I’m just barking up the wrong tree and it isn’t a connector at all.
My 2009 Ridgeback 117ci and super G carb intermittently dies when decelerating coming up to a stoplight. It never does it when accelerating or just running down the road Only on deceleration. Normally I’ll just drop down a gear depending on what gear I’m in and how fast I’m going and let out on the clutch and it fires right back up. But sometimes I’m going slow enough that I’ll just roll up to the stop sign hit the start button and it starts right back up.
It has never left me stranded on the side of the road but I’m afraid one day it’s going to.
I’m thinking a loose connection somewhere. Like maybe the crank sensor or maybe a loose connection at the EHC or the right hand control or maybe at the coil.
I have a 2008 service manual which I believe is the same thing as the 2009 ( please correct me if I’m wrong ).
It shows wiring diagrams and troubleshooting flow chart and pretty much everything else on the bike But it doesn’t show me where all these connectors are at.
The coil and the crank sensor plug-ins are pretty much out in the open and so is the EHC So this weekend when I’m off work I’m going to start with those by cleaning the Connectors with contact cleaner and applying dielectric compound and Plugging them back in. That will at least eliminate those unless of course the coil or the crank sensor or the EHC is Going bad but I have never seen A crank sensor or coil intermittently not work when I wrenched on cars at the dealership for a side job. Either they fail or they don’t But I’m definitely no expert in the BDM field so please correct me if I’m wrong. As for the EHC I also don’t know if it can intermittently not work.
Was also curious if anyone else has had this intermittent problem and what their fix was and if anyone could tell me where to find / locate the plug-ins that could cause this problem.
Maybe I’m just barking up the wrong tree and it isn’t a connector at all.
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