Attend To This First

[Kiwi_Roy]

Just arrived home with the new to me 2007 Griso, I bought a new battery and took the train out to Mission to ride it back, what a dream, with lights that actually work and suspension that soaks up the bumps.

When I got back I spent some time checking to see what needs attention, a few drops of oil on some of the pivots like side stand which was next to seized.

I must check the drive line and suspension pivot for grease ASAP.

Looking at the speed sensor I see a nice crack around where the cable disappears into the epoxy.
Trust me this crack goes all the way inside to where the wires are soldered onto the coil or whatever active device senses the speed pulses, I see this same thing on expensive industrial probes, the rock hard epoxy breaks away from the soft wire insulation to create the perfect path for moisture to migrate inside and ruin the expensive device.
Before any water gets near the bike I will seal around that with some silicone, this will create a flexible water tight joint.
Its a little hard too see the crack but it's there.

While I'm about it I will find where the sensor plugs into the loom, that could be another water entry point, it could easily wick all the way to the sensor thru the space between wires/strands, I will fill it up with Vaseline to repel any moisture.

I think the PO thought I was touched when I asked him not to wash the bike or replace the battery. It's been stored outside under a cover for 6 months, filthy dirty but bone dry, the battery lugs were quite badly corroded, it might have been the reason it wouldn't crank but I wanted to start off on the right foot with a new battery any way.
Slathered the posts with Vaseline (Gods gift to batteries) and it cranked right up and was soon purring like it should.

The owner had been paying to have some service done at a local dealer with a stellar reputation, Gord at Valley Motorcycles in Chilliwack, that's reassuring.
 
Sorry I haven't figured out how to post since photofucket kidnapped my pictures.

[KiwiKev]

Congrats Roy,

I'm sure you'll have her cleaned up in no time, looking forward to some pics..


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[Sheepdog]

Sounds like a great find, Roy. Great insight re the cracked speed sensor. I'll be checking mine out...

[tris]

Aha - welcome to my world of dogey speed sensors Roy 

I've been toying with putting a 3A inline fuse in the 12v feed to stop the stupidity I had last time out.

Tris

PS you'll love it the more you ride it I'm sure 

[Kiwi_Roy]

I don't think its so much as the material cracks but the soft wire shrinks away from the hard epoxy creating a tiny gap that wicks in any moisture.
Yes it is a bad design but easily fixed, something that could be done when prepping the bike.
Cover that area with some soft silicone that can stretch to take up the gap and the probe will last forever.

We used to do that with $500 pH probes, a tiny drop of moisture would kill those but once treated with silicone we could drop them right into the tanks with the entry point under water.

[Triple Jim]

Sorry I haven't figured out how to post since photofucket kidnapped my pictures.

You can use the "add image to post" feature, right under the composer window.

[Kiwi_Roy]

You can use the "add image to post" feature, right under the composer window.

Thanks for that TJ, couldn't get any easier than that.

[HDGoose]

You can use the "add image to post" feature, right under the composer window.

WildGuzzi now stores photos?

[Triple Jim]

Yes, and it has for quite a while.

[Lannis]

WildGuzzi now stores photos?

The fact that I can go down to my BestBuy and buy an 8 Terabyte storage/backup drive for pocket money has apparently been a game-changer in the photo-storage world ....

O to think that an RK05 removable disk pack was the size of a big microwave oven and stored 5 megabytes of data for my PDP-8 ... and cost $5,000 ....

Lannis

Lannis

[Kiwi_Roy]

The fact that I can go down to my BestBuy and buy an 8 Terabyte storage/backup drive for pocket money has apparently been a game-changer in the photo-storage world ....

O to think that an RK05 removable disk pack was the size of a big microwave oven and stored 5 megabytes of data for my PDP-8 ... and cost $5,000 ....

Lannis

Lannis

You are still using it arn't you Lannis?

[KiwiKev]

The fact that I can go down to my BestBuy and buy an 8 Terabyte storage/backup drive for pocket money has apparently been a game-changer in the photo-storage world ....

O to think that an RK05 removable disk pack was the size of a big microwave oven and stored 5 megabytes of data for my PDP-8 ... and cost $5,000 ....

Lannis

Lannis

HP had a rack mounted disk with one fixed and one removable platter 2.5mb each 7900A was the model. Quite popular on mini & desktop computer systems.

You could replace and align the heads and most other bits in them. I found a faulty supply rail to the PC board cage at one stage caused by crappy molex connectors they used. Was a fairly common fault as they got older esp.


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[Lannis]

You are still using it arn't you Lannis?

Yes, but the 12-bit architecture and the resultant 32kb programming space slows down the running of graphics a bit .... I may have to upgrade to a PDP-11 to get a hardware stack, this business of just running with an accumulator and a link bit and a DECtape operating system is getting a bit old ....

Lannis

[Kiwi_Roy]

I remember in his early days at HP Kev bought home a desktop computer with about a 4" monochrome screen.
It was about the same price as a house at the time.

[KiwiKev]

I remember in his early days at HP Kev bought home a desktop computer with about a 4" monochrome screen.
It was about the same price as a house at the time.

Was it a CRT display ? Can't remember that particular event but they did make a desktop model using diode transistor logic with a crt and 3 line display. Built in magnetic card reader - wohoo


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