Hi everyone.
So, I have around 670 miles on my Himalayan, bought in September.
I took it to work today and while heading home it wouldn't start. I took a couple of minutes and a few turns of the key on/off. I did notice lately that it doesn't want to start easily when it's colder, but one-two attempts got ride of that so I didn't give it much thought.
Today, as said, was almost impossible to start it. One thing to notice - there was NO fuel pump buzz when I turned it on.
After it started and let it idle for a bit (everything normal, around 1200-1300 rpm). I have 5 km from home to work and half way home I had to stop at a railroad crossing. I left in in neutral while waiting for two trains to pass, so I was sitting for some time.
It shut off after about 2-3 minutes. Tried starting it, took 3 tries (turned the key off and on only once). When it started I didn't know what to do exactly, I kept it in neutral still but had the clutch lever depressed and I kept throttling gently.
So I came to my house and had to let the oncomming traffic pass before I turned into my yard. Started letting go of the clutch and it died again. I was pretty nervous at that point so I might have simply stalled it that time, it started right away then.
I parked it in my yard, let it idle for a minute, turned it off. Ignition on, pump buzzes, starts like a champ. Turned it off, back on, pump buzzes, starts right away. Tried it with killswitch, everything fine. So I spent the next 5 minutes turning it off and on, no problems. Revving it gently, all good. Revving it briefly up to ca. 3k rpm, everything fine. 4-5 rpm, all fine. Neutral, 1st gear, side stand up, side stand down. All fine. Tried it again after half an hour, all good.
I've emailed my dealer and am waiting for the to reply tomorrow, but I still want some other input. My dealer is ca. 100 miles away, so I am reluctant on riding there in this state and if it's an easy fix, I'd like to not have to have the bike towed there.
From what I've read online, there's two options based on symptoms described above:
1) fuel pump relay
2) fuel pump
Don't think it's the side stand relay, cause that should not cause issues when the bike is in neutral or in gear with clutch depressed.
Putting side stand up and down makes the relay tick like clockwork.
1) fuel dump relay - I've read about people replacing them and having mixed results. I've been recommended to clean them as RE apparently uses too much dielectric grease on them. Any more info on any of this?
2) fuel pump itself - would it cause issues that appear and go away? This intermittent nature of the problem would have me looking for issues in contacts, but I have little experience with this so I might be conpletely wrong.
Anyway, this is the whole story, might be a bit long but I wanted to cover as much details as possible so someone might pick up on what's happening. Thanks!
So, I have around 670 miles on my Himalayan, bought in September.
I took it to work today and while heading home it wouldn't start. I took a couple of minutes and a few turns of the key on/off. I did notice lately that it doesn't want to start easily when it's colder, but one-two attempts got ride of that so I didn't give it much thought.
Today, as said, was almost impossible to start it. One thing to notice - there was NO fuel pump buzz when I turned it on.
After it started and let it idle for a bit (everything normal, around 1200-1300 rpm). I have 5 km from home to work and half way home I had to stop at a railroad crossing. I left in in neutral while waiting for two trains to pass, so I was sitting for some time.
It shut off after about 2-3 minutes. Tried starting it, took 3 tries (turned the key off and on only once). When it started I didn't know what to do exactly, I kept it in neutral still but had the clutch lever depressed and I kept throttling gently.
So I came to my house and had to let the oncomming traffic pass before I turned into my yard. Started letting go of the clutch and it died again. I was pretty nervous at that point so I might have simply stalled it that time, it started right away then.
I parked it in my yard, let it idle for a minute, turned it off. Ignition on, pump buzzes, starts like a champ. Turned it off, back on, pump buzzes, starts right away. Tried it with killswitch, everything fine. So I spent the next 5 minutes turning it off and on, no problems. Revving it gently, all good. Revving it briefly up to ca. 3k rpm, everything fine. 4-5 rpm, all fine. Neutral, 1st gear, side stand up, side stand down. All fine. Tried it again after half an hour, all good.
I've emailed my dealer and am waiting for the to reply tomorrow, but I still want some other input. My dealer is ca. 100 miles away, so I am reluctant on riding there in this state and if it's an easy fix, I'd like to not have to have the bike towed there.
From what I've read online, there's two options based on symptoms described above:
1) fuel pump relay
2) fuel pump
Don't think it's the side stand relay, cause that should not cause issues when the bike is in neutral or in gear with clutch depressed.
Putting side stand up and down makes the relay tick like clockwork.
1) fuel dump relay - I've read about people replacing them and having mixed results. I've been recommended to clean them as RE apparently uses too much dielectric grease on them. Any more info on any of this?
2) fuel pump itself - would it cause issues that appear and go away? This intermittent nature of the problem would have me looking for issues in contacts, but I have little experience with this so I might be conpletely wrong.
Anyway, this is the whole story, might be a bit long but I wanted to cover as much details as possible so someone might pick up on what's happening. Thanks!