FZRSupport: the FZROnline Archive

Hi, new to this forum.
Picked up my now classic '88 thou last year and fell in love. So much better than my slightly older classic Kwak's and Honda's.

Been running my thou as a daily run to work. She gets used in traffic, filtering mainly, and then opened up when possible.

So, the other night, down the motorway at night, cruising at 120-130'ish, singing like a good-un, running absolutely sweet as. Fill up before heading home. Out in the morning, stop off at my kids house, so I can take her to school, no problems at all. Get on the bike after the school run, filtering traffic, seems all good, pull away from a set of lights and the FZR just dies as I snick her into 2nd?
Will not restart for love nor money.
Tried bump starting, nothing.
When I press the starter, in neutral or in gear with the clutch in, and the side stand up, all I get is the red oil light, no sign of turning over at all.

I got her home in the garage now, after checking all the fuses and relays that you can at the roadside, and still I cannot get any life from her.

I've checked the side-stand cut-out switch and the clutch cut-out switch as per the manual, all measuring as they should on the AVO meter.

Now I've checked the cut-out relay box that incorporates the turn signal relay, that showed a fault so I purchased a new one and fitted that, still no joy.

Next I've fitted a known good CDI or Digital Igniter as Yamaha call it, and still no joy.

Can anyone shed any light on my problem as I'm missing riding the old girl?

I have a good fully charged battery
The fuses all check out
The relays near the fuses are good
The starter relay works when the thin wire is earthed, and the engine turns over freely

Some component somewhere is telling the safety cut-out relay to not work...

I've found similar problems experienced by other Yamaha owners, usually with XV750 and 1100's, and the cut-out relay was the fault and they were soon up and running again after replacing it, but I haven't found anyone who has experienced it with a FZR1000Genesis.

Thanks
Alan

Hi Alan....Have you tested the kill switch on the r/h bar?

Ah yes, and tested the kill switch, all as expected according to the manual.
The last thing I see to check is the regulator/rectifier setup on the generator?

Did you also check the Plugs+Sockets for possible corrosion/rust?
Checked the voltage of the battery, too?
Maybe the Diode-Matrix (the tiny blackbox looking like a single-side-only connector without wires on the second side) should be checked,too...neutral light is glowing when placed in neutral gear? If not, drag the clutchlever regardless of the neutral gear and try a start If that works and the light didn't come up when in neutral gear, then the gearindicatorswitch or the connector according to this switch has a problem..