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ffbikersa

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Hello everybody,

Advice needed:

My buddy who is an expert on motorbike electrics installed the missing instruments lights and broken clutch lever switch on my newly acquired '93-built K 1100 RS - and now it developed new troubles. First - sometime it won't start: after I press the start button, only clicking of the relay is heard. I need to get the gearbox in the fifth gear, push the bike a little, and then starter motor starts working again. Almost parallel with that, the speedometer and tachometer lights started sometime to flicker and then go off completely - and with them would headlight go off too; but if I open the trottle and revs increase, they returned! I tried switching lights on and off, but that had no influence. It could go on like that for a few minutes and then everything becomes normal again.

I suspected some of the fuses was loose - but after moving them nothing improved. I filmed this with the lights and posted the video on Veoh - you can see it here:

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v125450999nCsXExWH

Clicking of the relay after I switch the engine and try starting it again can be heard too (noise in the background comes from the local mosque - call to a prayer )

Cheers,

Tarik
Sarajevo, Bosnia

    

Inge K.

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Dismantle the starter and clean it for carbon dust...clean the commutator with
a eraser ....and and change the brushes.

Well known problem, search the forums...


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Inge K.
K100RS -86. (first owner), K1100LTSE -94.
    

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ffbikersa

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Inge K. wrote:Dismantle the starter and clean it for carbon dust...clean the commutator with
a eraser ....and and change the brushes.

Well known problem, search the forums...
Thaaanks! I already today mail ordered the brushes from Motobins UK, it will take around a week to arrive

    

BobT

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The brushes are generic and are the same as fitted to nearly all European bikes and many Jap ones too.

    

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ffbikersa

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BobT wrote:The brushes are generic and are the same as fitted to nearly all European bikes and many Jap ones too.

I orderd them as Motobins supply - brushes for the negative with mount plate, for the positive and repair set with the O-rings (the pics are from the Motorworks site)

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ffbikersa

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The fellows from German Flyingbrick forum pointed out to me this useful starter motor repairs manual:

http://technik.flyingbrick.de/images/f/fc/61_anlasser_reparieren.pdf

    

BobT

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Same as used on the wifes BMW F800St, her Ducati ST2 and my K100RS. I bought a couple of sets off the web for around £4 a set.

    

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ffbikersa

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BobT wrote:Same as used on the wifes BMW F800St, her Ducati ST2 and my K100RS. I bought a couple of sets off the web for around £4 a set.
But don't the springs and O-rings need to be replaced as well?

    

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