my baby wont start! Please help
03-27-2008, 05:10 PM
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my baby wont start! Please help
Well Lets see i have a 1998 SH 996. I parked it after my ride. Bike ran well that day. Well the next day it wouldnt start! Well checked the battery and wires all good. It cranks but does not fire. Checked for spark not getting any. Possible causes are CDI, Coils, Stator its getting gas. Could it also be the kickstand switch to kill the bike thats killing it? Or whats called the angle gear? Don't know where to start. Anything else it could be. Changed the plugs already and rechecked all connection. It couldn't go bad all of a sudden could it?
03-27-2008, 05:18 PM
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If you have a manual look in the troubleshooting areas for some help (there is a link in the knowledge base here as well for the manual) Check the sidestand, clutch, handlebar kill switch (it happens to the best of us) etc and try to determine whats going on from there. Check both coils, one can go bad but not likely both so then check the other things mentioned including the CDI if you know someone with a comparable one but its probably something simple. good luck with it!
03-27-2008, 05:32 PM
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Im with drew kill switch. i spent 10 min the other day going what the hells wrong...and then like a bullet to the head i looked and the kill switch was on i felt pretty dumb.
03-27-2008, 06:02 PM
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I still think that using it every time you shut the bike off is the best it becomes second nature, and make sweet backfires, try rev it and control it with the kill switch 
03-28-2008, 05:44 AM
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03-28-2008, 06:16 PM
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