Coyote Chris
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I am back from Canada! I need a bit of advice and steerage.....my riding friend John is a wonderful guy, a retired army guy but he is very cautious on the web and wont register for forums....even though he has two Indian Royal Enfields and a new and old Triumph twin.
On the first day of our trip, his 2006 Triumph Bonnivielle T100 (16,000 miles) quit three times in one hour....the engine would just die like you hit the kill switch....lights stayed on and the oil light and alt light would come on...he would coast to a stop...turn the ignition switch off.....let it sit for a minute, and it would start right up....after the third time, we stopped at a rest area and thought about things. I told him the next time it happened, to quickly turn off the switch and turn it on again.
Then I checked bat. connections, what I think is the igniter connections, and I wiggled the coil connections, both high and low voltage side of the coil. The bike never acted up again in the next 700 miles. If this is a 360 crank like John says and both plugs are fired with each revolution, then a bad low voltage spade lug connection on the coil could have been it. (Its hard to see and get to without taking off the tank.)
I need a forum or person who knows these bikes so I can find out if they have ignition issues as in intermittent coil packs, igniter, pick up coils, etc. Any suggestions on specific resourses before I surf up the web? John does have the manual at home.
(this is an interesting thread about the Triumph ignition problems.....)
http://www.triumphrat.net/twins-technical-talk/108336-2005-bonneville-ignition-problems.html
Chris who likes forums
On the first day of our trip, his 2006 Triumph Bonnivielle T100 (16,000 miles) quit three times in one hour....the engine would just die like you hit the kill switch....lights stayed on and the oil light and alt light would come on...he would coast to a stop...turn the ignition switch off.....let it sit for a minute, and it would start right up....after the third time, we stopped at a rest area and thought about things. I told him the next time it happened, to quickly turn off the switch and turn it on again.
Then I checked bat. connections, what I think is the igniter connections, and I wiggled the coil connections, both high and low voltage side of the coil. The bike never acted up again in the next 700 miles. If this is a 360 crank like John says and both plugs are fired with each revolution, then a bad low voltage spade lug connection on the coil could have been it. (Its hard to see and get to without taking off the tank.)
I need a forum or person who knows these bikes so I can find out if they have ignition issues as in intermittent coil packs, igniter, pick up coils, etc. Any suggestions on specific resourses before I surf up the web? John does have the manual at home.
(this is an interesting thread about the Triumph ignition problems.....)
http://www.triumphrat.net/twins-technical-talk/108336-2005-bonneville-ignition-problems.html
Chris who likes forums
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