justme21

Could use some thoughts /help with this one PLEASE!!!

When I depress the starter button (with the key turned on neutral lite on and oil light on) the quad does not start that is no juice gets to starter to engage it. BUT the elelectric at the consol cuts out/shuts off -lites neutral lite and oil lights go out AND the starter relay makes a funny sound and vibrates if you hold it. Then if I shut the key off and wait a minute or so and then turn the key back on the electric/juice comes back on. I am 100% sure jucie is getting to the starter relay in question the fuse is OK-does not blow out

It appears it's resetting itself????? I am thinking that the starter relay --the unit next to the battery where 1 wire comes from the battery and the other goes to the starter is shot?????????????????????????

I would take it to a shop but they are relativley far away and I'd have to leave the quad and then go back for it- time consuming and expensive I am sure?????

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO could I PLEASE hear from the crowd on this????

Thanks ever so much- Elder statesman- BOB

my opinion on this you have it figured out. another thing i would possibly check would be your relay and if the bike has a belt light i would check it to see if mabey it is resetting itself i used to have a kawasaki 750 bruteforce that done this exact same ended up being belt lite needed to be reset from factory. but also mine wouldnt run very strong as it was i could get the bike to fire though.

So I have been thinking about a big bore kit for the 03 Z400. Anybody have preference on which kit? Athena 430? At that time I will do a set of hot cams too along with more carb work.

im not much on suzuki but if it was a honda 400ex i would go with a 416 big bore because it runs just like the 440 kit except cheaper and also the bike doesnt run as hot so if their is any kit like that for the z400 i would go for it!

No clatter all smooth

if its sucking air through your tail pipe i would check and see if when u try and start the bike if the carb pushes gas into the breather then you know their is either a whole in your piston, rings are shot, or your intake valve is stuck open and the head is pushing air instead of sucking from the carb and out the tail pipe. compression problems could be as simple as no plug in the bike bad piston bad rings anything of that nature check your carb and see if its pushes gas into your breather when you try and start it then let me know what happens.

Could someone please explain how this could happen?

The bolts that hold the stator plate in place came loose and broke all the wires going to the cdi and coil.there`s 7 wires coming out of it.

I rewired the wiring and finally got it to crank up and run but..........for some strange reason when you put the gear selector in f for foward, it`s in reverse and when youi put it in reverse it goes foward

any help or suggestions would be really appreciated.

when you were rewiring the bike you could have done the forward and reverse backwards? it is easily done getting into wiring harneses also i would look into the plugs that run into ur shifter and see if those are hooked properly, and i have no idea how the stator done all that damage sorry figured an opinion could help though.

Honestly i have about the same problem with an 07 honda 450er that pops/crackles from the exhaust but only at steady low throttle i changed my jets around to a 172 main 42 pilot and a 55 leak jet the bike cleared up and now runs alot better but still has the crackle kind of cutting out while at steady low throttle i think my problem is to low of a pilot jet because that controls your throttle response in a way or mabey the throttle positioning sensor on the carb, let me know if your 05 was doing this before or after the exhaust and i will try to help you out also Quad let me know if you may know the problem with mine thank you much.