02-12-2016, 01:32 AM
I will go out a limb here and say a bad ground. Or even a loose neg terminal on battery. Been there done this!
Bought a Honda VTX 1800 brand new. What you described happened to this bike a few times when new. Followed all the grounds to the frame? At one location, Honda primed and painted the frame then put a ground there! Not good I would lose one cylinder. Scraped all the paint and primer off and never happened again.
On a few long rides I did, if the roads were bad, the neg terminal on battery would get loose. Then the symptom was just what you described on start up.
good luck
Bought a Honda VTX 1800 brand new. What you described happened to this bike a few times when new. Followed all the grounds to the frame? At one location, Honda primed and painted the frame then put a ground there! Not good I would lose one cylinder. Scraped all the paint and primer off and never happened again.
On a few long rides I did, if the roads were bad, the neg terminal on battery would get loose. Then the symptom was just what you described on start up.
good luck
