What a night!

BrianKesler

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Every Tueday night Beef O Bradys closes their parking lot for cars and only letsmotorcycles in. There is normally around 100 or so bikes there. Me and dad went out there, stood around for a bit then decided to go take a ride. We got down the road a bit and it started raining pretty hard. We stopped at a light and my bike died. I started it back up and it was fine. About 10 seconds later it died again and wouldnt start. I guess something got wet that shouldnt have?? Anyway, we were about 1 mile from the house so we decided that the only way to get the bike back home was to push it. Most of the way was flat, then came the hill. I had tried to start it every 50 or so feet but nothing. I pushed the 550lb bike just about all the way up the hill, i was almost to the top when i decided to try and start it 1 more time and it fired up. I rode it the rest of the way home, about 20 seconds, pulled in the garage and now its fine. Any ideas what could have gotten wet and made it not wanna run??
 
Not knowing anything about your bikes history, this is a wild guess, but my first instinct is a fuel problem.

Not sure WHAT kind of fuel problem. Didn’t you rebuild the bike or something?
 
Sounds kinda like a spark plug wire got wet and grounded out the coil. Are the wires original?
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Are you getting water in your airbox?

I had a similar issue on my Yamaha Maxim 550 (first street bike) and it went away when I changed the coils.

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If you think it's the wires next time take a can of WD-40 and spray them. WD-40 stands for Water Displacement and they tried 40 different formulas before they were happy with it.

WD is non conductive and it works on distributor caps and plug wires on cars as well.
 
I suggest you get it checked by a mechnic once... just to be sure!!
 
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