Sunday was a tragic day in the garage:
I was routing some wire for my new GPS and pulled the tank. When reinstalling it I felt some resistance and then heard a loud POP and it slid in easily. Turns out the tank was pressing on the left side of the front fairing and actually snapped the little wing off. It doesn't look too bad and I can live with it for now. You need to be 4 feet tall to see the damage. That'll teach me to pull a full tank off the Tiger. I then proceeded to nick an O-ring inserting the fuel connector - glad I keep a few spares handy.
But the bigger calamity was that after I got it together the bike started and died. And it wouldn't restart. It turned over great, battery 1 year old. I discovered I had broken the female connector that attaches to the fuel pump - just the very end that securely latches to the male connector. Apparently the fuel pump had electrons long enough to get up to pressure before the connector slipped apart.
I can't see a way to bypass this connector because the male end is part of the tank. The only way to get the connector from Triumph is to buy the entire harness ($$$$$). Does anyone have a connector laying around?
Is it just the latch that's broken? I did that with my fan connector & just used a cable tie to hold it together.
Quote from: "iansoady"Is it just the latch that's broken? I did that with my fan connector & just used a cable tie to hold it together.
I thought about that, but I'm wary of losing power when I absolutely F-ing need it. This is a critical connection.
Is it the L shaped connector that plugs into the fuel pump/metal plate on the tank?
Is the part on this picture?
Quote from: "CvPiper"Is the part on this picture?
No. It's the connector that is part of the main wiring harness that attaches to the plug on the side of the tank.
Can't you break the connector completely and get the actual metal bits out of it and just individually push them on?
Quote from: "blacktiger"Can't you break the connector completely and get the actual metal bits out of it and just individually push them on?
Sure. I could, but what's going to keep the connectors together? This is my fuel supply were talking about.
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Am I an idiot?