Hi,
i experienced it twice in 1 week period. I was driving and it was raining and my Triumph America '2006 (5800km) engine just stopped (tried to restart, but it just didn't start) and after waiting about 10-15min i was able to start it again.
These are first two times i have been riding in the rain with that Triumph.

I went to my dealer and he will spray something on electric wire connections to keep water away.

Does somebody have had similar experiences? Any solutions?

Take ALL of the electrical connections, fuses included, apart and put dielectric grease in them and reseat them all.
Also, there have been some bad CDI boxes causing the same problem.

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Pat Whitbeck
Canandaigua, New York 14424

I have a TBA and unfortunately, living if Florida, I find myself caught in the rain quite often have even riden it through tropical storm force rains and have NEVER had it cause me any problems at all. Never had it cut out on me. Don't know what could be causing that for you.

Just now rode in from the rain & Bonnie ran great. I am still wet though.
There have been many threads about this. One last week said it was water getting up into the fuel tank breather hose causing a vacuum in the tank & starving the carbs. My vent hose stops behind the engine on the left side. My friends Speedy hose goes out the right side & goes all the way under the engine. My hose stays up level with the swing arm. It makes sense too. Especially if the tank is almost full. It will have less air space. The pull on the water could egual the gravity pull on the fuel & fuel flow could stop.
This may be all a myth. BUT. Just in case in is true, try it again & then when it stops take off the fuel cap & then put it back on & try to start it. Let the fuel have time to fill the carb bowls. One minute??
Do this & let us know. We are waiting for an answer.

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357bob

I did take off the fuel cap first time, because i thought maybe i have run out of gas but that wasn't the case. And tried to restart the engine but it didn't. After ~10min it started again.

I got my America back from the dealer now and i'm waiting to test it again when it is raining.

To bad your test drive need to be in the rain...........

Erwin :hammer:

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Erwin

Hi,

to let you all know, the myth is true that 357Bob told. After i got my bike back i went to ride again in the rain .. and the same happened again.. engine stopped.

The SOLUTION was opening fuel tank cap, engine started immediately :-p (no need to wait ~10min as i did first time that occured). So, I closed the cap and drove about ~3-4km, engine stopped again, i repeated the trick and again engine started with no problem, then i continued ridding with loose gap about ~50km with no problems.

It was raining very hard that evening, when i reached home, my TBA was tottally soaked but the engine was running with no problems.



Lainer

Sounds like you need a rain filter :razz:

Erwin :hammer:

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Erwin

Quote:

On 2006-09-04 08:56, 357Bob wrote: water getting up into the fuel tank breather hose causing a vacuum in the tank & starving the carbs.

Nice job Bob....... :gpst: :chug:


Erwin :hammer:

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Erwin

how about cutting the ose off at an angle so the water dont get sucked into the hose?
cliff

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