S4R Broke - any ideas ?
 

Bike broke down today..started coughing and farting and then started acting like it was running out of petrol. Pulled in..stank of petrol..and when you tried to start it, smoke came out of the silencers and fuel was spewing out of the joints in the exhaust....?? Any ideas before I go an lay into it !!!!! ?

Nat

Throttle position sensor :puzzled:

How come you say TPS Nigel?? have u had problems with ur tps on a s4r to?

Reason I ask as mine has gone in to have tps replaced after the diagnostics said it was ok still but a test ride by mechanic confirmed summat was up.

Now tps's have been replaced but still not right so the ecu is being replaced to:o:o in mean time i get to play on an 06' black 999 pretty cool but id like mine to run well :lol::lol:

Hope yours is better soon Nat!

[Edited on 15-5-2006 by Lee1980]

Tried a new ECU tonight - still p****g petrol out so its not that...got a realyl bad feeling im gonna be off the road for ages with this as the dealers are chocka. Gutted.

Nat

natty, could be Injector seat/needle

Good call Mav certainly sounds like to much fuel is getting by the injector and if its not the ECU holding it open suspect a faulty injector and as Nat has tried another ECU I can't see that its been held open .

Cheers lads..i'll suggest that..

Big up Moto Rapido...
 

Update - good old Steve Hilary @ Moto Rapido has agreed to take her in for a look despite being chocka. Big big thanks to DUK too for agreeing to help out ..
Nat

Update...

Well, despite being absolutely chocka..those good old boys at Moto Rapido have sussed the problem..in just a week..!!

Busted injector...and unfortunatley you hav eto buy the whole throttle body assembly at about £900 !! :o

DUK have kindly agreed to sort it despite the bike just being out of warranty so big thanks to Wilf & Steve @ MR and Andy at DUK for saving the day...

Nat

Thats great news mate !

Well done to DUK as well !

Age

£900 for an injector?????????????????????????????

FARK! :o

Well done to DUK doing the honourable thing but £900 is taking the proverbial for a glorified solenoid valve.

[Edited on 24-5-2006 by twpd]

I bet you could buy it as a stand-alone part, just not from DUK!

One thing is for sure - I'm holding onto my spare injectors. Antoyne is right of course - it's all sourced externally. We just need the automotive equivalent of the RS or Farnell catalogues! :lol:

Speak to my Pit Bitch Mark - he works in the trade so will be able to tell you where to get such equivalents I'm sure. He's probably even got a whole load already laying around the workshop...
http://ducatisportingclub.com/xmb/vi...2&pid=288 015

Ummm.... GT40's. Has he got a spare frame then?

No, that was my frame back from the powder coaters.

If you like GT40s, you should have seen the workshop earlier...

Tasty!

Glad to hear you got a good result there, Natty. I had a similar situation a while back when I had a bent valve replaced on my old 750SS when it was six months out of warranty. But, again, with a good dealer to put my case, DUK stumped up for parts and labour in full; fair play to them.