engine dies when going down the road and then restarts

[zz chopper]

Coming home late night and the bike dies when going down the road. I pull over nad it restarts. Continue down the road and it dies again. Then retstarts. Happened 8 time in about 5 miles. Looks to be electrical because the speedo needle and lights would be all over the place. Any ideas. Earlier that day I did put the battery on a car battery charger for about 10 minutes. Could have hurt the ecu,

 

[knothead]

Sounds like cam sensor or crank sensor depending on what year it is

 

[HMAN]

Cam sensor. He has an 04 Ridgeback.
My Pitbull did that on the 1st trip to Perry Lake. Turns out the battery was vibrating into the EHC and it was losing connection briefly. Put on a battery strap and it ran fine.

 

[Jersey Big Mike]

Check all your electrical for tight -- loose battery connection will do this.
Check the keyswitch, old worn switches with too much play cna cause this.
Did you need to wait for thebike to cool down to restart it?
Check Crank/cam sensor.

 

[zz chopper]

Did not have to wait for cool down. Will check connections.

 

[tcrowelljr]

My 04 Chopper did that years ago, would restart when I hit run and was still rolling. Ended up being the Cam sensor

 

[Sven]

Runs and stalls, runs again a few minutes later:
1. Gas cap not breathing, vacuum locks then equals out being it stopped and there goes 14.7 pee yes I said zero.
2. Loose are the battery cables from end to end is from the battery only is 50% fixed being electrolysis or loose frame ground.
3. Magnetism: you cannot separate heat from the chemical reaction... So when a crank sensor makes electricity, the chemical reaction of electrons chemically do their push away, "cools off" a degree or two away from the thermodynamic swing, it swings back to running till its thermodynamic numbers hit its threshold, meaning it turned into a boat anchor is the crank sensor.

Make sense of 3 types of no runs?

 

[zz chopper]

Thanks, guys, for your responses. I opened up the nose cone. Back of cam sensor looks Ok. Is this where I would looks for the cracks you mentioned. This morning the bike will not even start. It turns over find but then the starter kicks out. It's like the ignition fires on the wrong stroke. I'll be looking at the key switch and coils next.

 

[HMAN]

04 mastiff no spark

So I'm only getting 8 volts to the coil after I press the run button. What would be the problem then?

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[Mr. Wright]

It's an 04, could be key switch