this sucks...now i need a relaypack

[match417]

my bike is sooooo close to running it's not even funny. My friends are all going camping on the northshore, and since i KNEW i was going to get my bike running, they left without me because i wanted to cruise out there (a little over an hours cruise). And for some odd reason, the R1 fuel pump that I'm installing has the wiring backwards, black is hot and black/blue is ground so when i initially plugged it in and turned the bike on, i fried my relay pack without knowing it, then when I thought I might have a bad relay pack from toying around and rewiring stuff, i plugged in my spare relay pack...fried it too...and i'm stuck at my house for the weekend while my room mates and other friends are out on northshore campin', grillin', beachin', surfin'..sigh..all because yamaha made black the hot and black/blue the ground, and now i've fried two relay packs...in hindsight, i should have dug through google looking for an r1 wiring diagram before connecting everything. I even looked at the wiring colors, they are basically the same between the fzr and r1 pumps..except the blue/black wire on the fzr is black/blue on the r1 one, so where black is ground on our pumps, black is hot on r1 pumps. I didn't find this out until i ran it straight to the battery, wires got hot fast, i reversed them with black on positive and sure enough, the pump started priming...this sucks..and i need to replace the dvd drive in my 360, so i can't play it either..man..this sucks..but all i can do is laugh at the situation and wait to get another relay pack when i find one for a good price again, no sense in getting mad. On the plus side, it looks like rain, and they'll probably get rained out camping..so i'll just laugh at them when it happens!


now i'm bored..sigh

[match417]

HAH! and i just saw lightning!!! yes! looks like i won't be riding over an hour in lightning!!!

p.s. the weather only gets bad enough here to see lightning about once or twice a year. and i can count the number of lightning strikes i've seen here on one hand, literally, but if i see one more i'll have to start counting on two hands though

[match417]

so it turns out that black ISN'T hot and black/blue ISN'T ground, I looked at everything again and the wiring was right, I looked at the wiring where I ran the pump straight to the battery, I crossed a wire somewhere and my black to the battery ended up being hot, and the black/blue was ground. It looks like both of my relays were fried when I plugged the new fuel pump in to the system just because I guess the fuel pump pulls more amps. Thats the last time i trust Yamaha techs, I was going to run a separate relay for the fuel pump, everything would have been fine, but he said "naaa, it will be ok to run through your system, they all pull around the same amps". HAH! shows what you know.

[shredex]

so it turns out that black ISN'T hot and black/blue ISN'T ground, I looked at everything again and the wiring was right, I looked at the wiring where I ran the pump straight to the battery, I crossed a wire somewhere and my black to the battery ended up being hot, and the black/blue was ground. It looks like both of my relays were fried when I plugged the new fuel pump in to the system just because I guess the fuel pump pulls more amps. Thats the last time i trust Yamaha techs, I was going to run a separate relay for the fuel pump, everything would have been fine, but he said "naaa, it will be ok to run through your system, they all pull around the same amps". HAH! shows what you know.

, yea.
I talked to the guys at R&B motorcycles and they customize bike and Ill ask them to do something and they say its impossible even though we have done it before....

like the gsxr steering damper....they were like "it wont work...you need the one for your bike"
I told them the one on my bike was a gsxr damper and they just "no...thats the one to your bike"...

only trust yourself and others on this forum

[megaloxana]

HAH! and i just saw lightning!!! yes! looks like i won't be riding over an hour in lightning!!!

p.s. the weather only gets bad enough here to see lightning about once or twice a year. and i can count the number of lightning strikes i've seen here on one hand, literally, but if i see one more i'll have to start counting on two hands though

maybe yamaha saved your life?

[match417]

yeah, i like being told somethings impossible to do to a bike, I know I can do it, so them saying it can't be done gives me more drive to get it done. Now that I think about it, when they say It can't be done, I try harder, and I pass the point where I would normally give up, just because I want to show them it can be done! ANYTHING is possible with enough time, money, and knowledge, and most of the time it's just time and knowledge.

maybe yamaha saved your life?

actually, i think God saved my life .. lightning got worse last night, i have never seen it this bad since i've lived here, the power went out and came back on this morning. Me, my room mate and his girlfriend sat and looked out the window and watched the power go out grid by grid on the hills around the house. If I would have got my bike going when I wanted to, I would have left right before the lightning started, and been in the middle of it because it was snapping all around where I would have been going.