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Intermittent Starting Issue On My 05
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<blockquote data-quote="Harald" data-source="post: 1398916" data-attributes="member: 8054"><p>Are you on the wet side of Oregon? Being up here near Tacoma, we get a lot of rain and I ride daily so I know about corroded connectors on the FJR. I've been Spider bit, but you don't have to worry about that on your 05. There is a big connector under the tank by the steering head that I hear is a common corrosion problem for Gen I bikes.</p><p></p><p>Connectors can be tough to clean. I use electrical/contact cleaner to spray them clean and if I can get a q-tip in there to scrub I'll do that. Sockets get cleaned by spraying cleaner in and then inserting the mating plug and sliding it in and out to try and scrub off any crud. Finish with another blast of cleaner. Then I highly recommend gooping a liberal amount of Dielectric grease into the connector on both side before reconnecting. The grease don't short out the pins and provides a barrier to water/crud getting to the contact surfaces and corroding them. Other than a failed sidestand switch (lots of fun when the bikes dies at 70mph just as you merge into traffic on the freeway on a bridge with almost no shoulder to pull over to), I haven't had any electrical issues in the last 100,000 miles on my 07 since I greased most of my connectors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harald, post: 1398916, member: 8054"] Are you on the wet side of Oregon? Being up here near Tacoma, we get a lot of rain and I ride daily so I know about corroded connectors on the FJR. I've been Spider bit, but you don't have to worry about that on your 05. There is a big connector under the tank by the steering head that I hear is a common corrosion problem for Gen I bikes. Connectors can be tough to clean. I use electrical/contact cleaner to spray them clean and if I can get a q-tip in there to scrub I'll do that. Sockets get cleaned by spraying cleaner in and then inserting the mating plug and sliding it in and out to try and scrub off any crud. Finish with another blast of cleaner. Then I highly recommend gooping a liberal amount of Dielectric grease into the connector on both side before reconnecting. The grease don't short out the pins and provides a barrier to water/crud getting to the contact surfaces and corroding them. Other than a failed sidestand switch (lots of fun when the bikes dies at 70mph just as you merge into traffic on the freeway on a bridge with almost no shoulder to pull over to), I haven't had any electrical issues in the last 100,000 miles on my 07 since I greased most of my connectors. [/QUOTE]
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