No Spark! I've accidentally murdered my pride and joy!

First off HI, I'm new to the forum and in fact new to forums altogether, but desperate times...
I'll try and be as clear as I can but please understand i'm no mechanic and i have no mechanical knowledge.
I've had my VFR800 FIY (2000) a few months, all was well at first, then the link pipe behind the heat shield disintegrated, I patched it up and carried on, then after brimming the tank one day the fuel gauge stopped working, stayed full until the tank ran dry, soldered a new connector under the tank and that improved it a little. Then the LCD light stopped working, and this is where it all went pear shaped...
I took the clocks off, had a nose round behind the PCB, the screws the connect the printed circuit to the PCB were very corroded, so I took them out and cleaned them up, reconnected them, no LCD display at all.
Now I've got no LCD, when i turn the key the fuel pump primes, the starter motor spins but there is no spark and the engine won'r fire up, and the F1 comes back on, turn the ignition off and on and it resets the F1, then the same again.

 

Hi and Welcome to the MadHouse, :welcome:

When you get a chance please drop by the Introductions part of the forum to say Hi to the rest of the folks on here and post a photo or two of your bike - or you may get folks raggin on you.

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The search engine on here - takes some getting used to, but quickly found plenty of 5th Gen VFRs with faulty LCD instrument displays such as:

http://vfrworld.com/forums/showthread.php/42579-2000-LCD-Display-dead?


Assuming you have already made sure the instrument panel connectors is fully pushed home then I tend to think the LCD display is still OK (as they are very robust) and the actual fault is probably down to a cracked/broken track on the green printed circuit board behind. Without a proper connection with the instrument display - a fuel injection bike just won't start. Before rushing out to buy a replacement instrument panel I suggest you remove the instrument panel and open it up to check. Inherently if it is faulty you are going to have to remove anyway.

Good luck let us know how you get on.




SkiMad

 

I run my '98 with no gauges at all; so I don't think dash connectivity is key to the bike starting or running. Or perhaps, he should try disconnecting the dash entirely.