XT660Z 2010 will not start - need help
 

Hi All,

I washed my bike after attending the Tenere Tragics ride the other weekend. Normal hose (not Karcher) with soapy water and sponge.

A really good wash ie trying to get into most nooks and crannies.

Now the ****** will not start. When the key gets to the on position, you can hear the petrol pump (or whatever that 2 second start up noise is) then press the start button.

It tries to start but doesn't have any spark. ie it cranks but nothing.

Left it for a day to dry, taken out spark plug and all ok. Have cranked over with spark plug out and there is spark. No water in air filter / area.

Still no go.

Any thoughts?

Brocksamoyed
XT660Z 2010

If you've got a spark and a good battery, could be fuel. Is there fuel being fed from the tank?

HT lead issue?

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Yo - After three days of proding, playing and I think most importantly, DRYING, I got it started.

In the future, no way will I use my high pressure cleaner and hand cleaning will be done less vigorously.

Thx for your help

Brocksamoyed
XT660Z

If your bike was rendered useless by a hosepipe then you have a problem somewhere, and you really need to get it resolved.

I wash my Tenere, and have done since day one (it's nearly 3 now) with a Karcher without any problems at all. At times I've had the bike tank high in water too (we have some roads that double as rivers here) without any issues you are describing.

It is possible that some water got into the connector that powers the fuel injector perhaps?

It is one of those waterproof connectors, however, I had an issue where the engine cut out, and after rummaging around, cleaned up the terminals and clicked home that connector, no more problems...

The connector is on top of the FI, under the rear edge of the tank.

Jx

Start the bike up and wash it like you did last time if it cuts out again I'd be wanting to fix it otherwise you might get stuck somewhere.

Did the same thing with my TTR started it up and carefully squirted water on the various HT bits till it konked out. Turned out to be the HT Cable/Coil joint, impossible to see by eye but the insulation had just gone enough to allow water in and no spark.

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Some good advise there.

Thx heaps I will try that out over the weekend.

I did take out and and insert the air temp sensor. My hands are large and it took me awhile to get back in, so I could have clicked back something into place.

My gut is it is fuel related as I noticed before it fired up, that the rev gauge moved a little. Glimmer of hope, so I started it again with the hand on the throttle and gave it some gas, and it started to fire up. Kinda like starting on old carbie bike or car, it needed the thottle input to get it going. I suspect if there was not major throttle input, it still would not have started.

After running it for a few minutes, it would start no probs without throttle input. So I am leaning towards fuel or fuel injection issue. I will try it again this evening. Hopefully push the starter, no throttle and I will be happy.

I will drown the bike over the weekend and see what happens. :017:

Enjoy

Brocksamoyed

I would remove the fuel tank & unplug every electrical connector & give them a spray of WD, drip dry the residue out of the connectors, then plug the connectors back together.

This is exactly the problem I had. The bike would only start when pulling the throttle.
Still no idea on what happened...