I’m stuck!

[TheRepoGuy]

I’m tempted to pull the entire loom out of the bike and go through the whole thing. I’m wondering if I don’t have shorts throughout the bike honestly.


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[DaveKamp]

I highly doubt that there's any shorts in there that'd cause damage to your TCI box. Stick a different TCI and a good set of stock coils in and see what happens.

 

[TheRepoGuy]

I highly doubt that there's any shorts in there that'd cause damage to your TCI box. Stick a different TCI and a good set of stock coils in and see what happens.

That melted ground wire which I caught this morning is why I believe there’s a short somewhere in the system. Already started on the wiring; found a bunch of the small square blocks which are corroded to hell and back. Hopefully with some butt connectors I can rectify the problem!

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[dan filipi]

TheRepoGuy » 54 minutes ago[/url]":38lhtyds]

I highly doubt that there's any shorts in there that'd cause damage to your TCI box. Stick a different TCI and a good set of stock coils in and see what happens.

That melted ground wire which I caught this morning is why I believe there’s a short somewhere in the system. Already started on the wiring; found a bunch of the small square blocks which are corroded to hell and back. Hopefully with some butt connectors I can rectify the problem!

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Checking the harness is a good idea even if it didn’t cause the damage.....damage which we don’t know yet the cause.

 

[TheRepoGuy]

I’ve been through the entire harness this morning since about 0400 give or take. There’s several things I see as “wrong” which were corrected. Somehow, I don’t see mother Honda taping up the terminal blocks in the harness but I’ve been wrong before.

Removed a bunch of excess wires again that didn’t have any place on the bike from the PO I guess. Now it looks better and is cleaner

I still have to get the TCI box so hopefully that along with this mess which is HOPEFULLY cleaned up I should be good! Someone pray to the Honda god for me ha!


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[dan filipi]

I would use the old TCI as guinea pig as much as possible, before plugging in any replacement parts and risking damage to them.

 

[joedrum]

It could have been excess wire you removed that was the problem ...I’d try now with the old box and see if your efforts on the wiring may have fixed it ...cause the box was working till it shorted or whatever ...may have fixed that culprit in the excess wiring removal

 

[TheRepoGuy]

That TCI is too ****** to make it worth while to test it again. The MOSFETS as Ive come to find out are burnt beyond recognition so once I’m done going through the harness then I’ll get after the new TCI and see what happens


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[desertrefugee]

I agree. That board is toast. I would never trust it.

 

[joedrum]

Wasn’t suggesting using old box just suggesting to try running it to see if all that mess of wiring taken off may have changed things ...this would tell you if this may have been the cause ..you don’t know why yet what made the box messed up ...but I can tell you for sure using neon coils and even 1500 coils might be the problem also ...neon coils seem to work well on 1100s...but they don’t work good on 1000s...and the problem is they heat things up ...might be what happen to the black box....

 

[DaveKamp]

I'll second Dan's note on checking the harness anyway... Motorcycles are exposed to some wonderful conditions, and it doesn't take much moisture at all to turn connections, and even wire, into a green, resistive mess. I don't think any of it would kill your TCI, but it'd certainly cause stuff to not work well. Rather than installing replacement connectors, I just eliminate the connector altogether... cut back, strip, solder, and tape them tight, perhaps with some liquid goo to help the seal.

Stranded wire is wonderful at demonstrating capillary action... I had co-workers who didn't believe it, so I took a 500ft roll of #10 stranded from one of their trucks, put it on a table, and dropped the end of the wire in a peanut-butter jar full of water. The next morning, the water was gone. They thought it was a prank. I had 'em start cutting a foot of wire off the end of the spool... and keep cutting 'till they found dry wire.

They ended up throwing the spool away after about 40 minutes of cutting... they'd gone from cutting off a foot, to two, to five, to 20... and had a garbage can of cut-offs to prove it. Same thing happens in cars and motorcycles.

Wire is, from a capillary-action standpoint... like plumbing... and plumbing is the root of all evil.

 

[TheRepoGuy]

I’m going to aim for stock coils and see if that helps any. Ordered a new set today and hopefully I’ll have them soon. I have a set off an 87 LTD I might try here In the next few days; figure it can’t hurt any to try the stock setup though I didn’t see much of a change between stock and this current system.

I’ll likely agree the Neon coils work well for the 1100’s but not the 1200’s based on all the circumstances I’ve encountered with this old girl. Hopefully when I’m done with the harness it’ll be my last good step to a solid running machine so it can go buhbye and I can start on another one.

Might even have to add a chapter or two into the old service manual once this is all said and done ha!


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