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Hello everyone I’m hopfish from southern Arkansas and new to fz1 owner ship but I have a diamond in the ruff or whatever you wanna call it and having to overhaul it. Just a quick overview wiring fire, another’s horrible attempt at fixing said wire fire, been sitting since 2009.

So nothing worked at first except intermittent gauge blinks, tried to undo someone’s rewire attempt got frustrated, ordered pre-used harness and installed. And that’s when things got much better gauges came on, headlight came on, relays clicked , and my luck sometimes goes my way cause the bike has 24k miles or at least this cluster does which is low for and 01? But the starter button has 12v on both wires when key is on (which is a bad ground?) but I can jump the solenoid and it will crank (so better news) so now it’s TLC time and a few little issues but I need experienced help and know yall are the people to confide in
 
Hopfish said:
Hello everyone I’m hopfish from southern Arkansas and new to fz1 owner ship but I have a diamond in the ruff or whatever you wanna call it and having to overhaul it. Just a quick overview wiring fire, another’s horrible attempt at fixing said wire fire, been sitting since 2009.

So nothing worked at first except intermittent gauge blinks, tried to undo someone’s rewire attempt got frustrated, ordered pre-used harness and installed. And that’s when things got much better gauges came on, headlight came on, relays clicked , and my luck sometimes goes my way cause the bike has 24k miles or at least this cluster does which is low for and 01? But the starter button has 12v on both wires when key is on (which is a bad ground?) but I can jump the solenoid and it will crank (so better news) so now it’s TLC time and a few little issues but I need experienced help and know yall are the people to confide in
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Welcome, sounds like a hefty job, but rewarding when you can return the FZ1 to active duty ;) Goodluck :)
 
Bought a '91 for ridiculously cheap back in June. Has 94k miles on the clock, on it's 2nd engine (an '03) with 30K on it, ran like crap when I bought it and the owner thought there was some major engine problem. Hence, cheap. Finally got around to looking into it. #3 and #4 cylinders not firing (exhaust pipes cold). Spark on all 4, gas getting to carbs, good compression numbers. Hmmm. Check carb sync just for giggles - #3 and #4 had sky-high vacuum. Aha. Turns out one of the compression springs controlling the central carb sync mechanism had popped out and 3 and 4 were way, way off. The spring was sitting atop the starter motor. I put it back in and the bike runs great. Sometimes you win.
So far I've been out on it a total of once in town. Didn't get past 3rd gear or over 5k revs. Haha. It has great low end grunt. Didn't know what to expect here - people's opinions are all over the map when you read on the web. It will be interesting to compare it with my SV1000 once I've fixed a couple of things (like a missing front engine mount bolt!).
Anyway - I've already used this site a bunch. Thank you to the owners, the admins and the members who post all the useful information herein. I hope some time soon I can contribute too.
 
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