12-12-2023, 01:48 AM
Full recovery!
The CB1100 is back in my care as of today, finally, after 6 weeks of waiting for honda OEM parts.
The final word is it WAS the stater, which is not known for going bad in the mid 60k miles, but is also not impossible. He did find a melted connecter at my headlight lamp while doing a comprehensive inspection of the electrical system (which he also replaced) but he feels confident that is most probably unrelated. If anything it may have contribued to my repeated headlight bulb outages, but likley had nothing to do with the stater issue.
At any rate, with the worn out relays and the worn out fuel pump replaced and the malfunctioning stater replaced, the bike now runs flawlessly and gets all its fueling correct and consistent.
I guess the only thing i could take away from this to add to the general knowledge base is....open your headlight bucket and check for melted connectors!
The CB1100 is back in my care as of today, finally, after 6 weeks of waiting for honda OEM parts.
The final word is it WAS the stater, which is not known for going bad in the mid 60k miles, but is also not impossible. He did find a melted connecter at my headlight lamp while doing a comprehensive inspection of the electrical system (which he also replaced) but he feels confident that is most probably unrelated. If anything it may have contribued to my repeated headlight bulb outages, but likley had nothing to do with the stater issue.
At any rate, with the worn out relays and the worn out fuel pump replaced and the malfunctioning stater replaced, the bike now runs flawlessly and gets all its fueling correct and consistent.
I guess the only thing i could take away from this to add to the general knowledge base is....open your headlight bucket and check for melted connectors!