Sports: Re: [DucatiST] still electrical gremlins

Hi Aaron

If the starter motor is spinning, (the whirring noise, I'm thinking) but the engine is not turning over, then the starter clutch has some worn parts in it. Let us know if in fact the starter motor is spinning.

Sandy Thompson

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Aaron Grossman <agrossma07@yahoo.com> wrote:

recap on my request for help:

'99 ST2. a little over a month ago I found that it was taking longer and longer for any electricity to show itself as going to my gauge cluster when I turned the key. After a week it stopped altogether.

I brought it to my local shop, who told me that it's "absolutely the keyswitch" so we agreed to order a new one and they'd install it [not a lot of time for wrenching at the time]. A month later the switch still hasn't arrived from Italy, so I bought a new OEM unit on eBay and installed it myself this past Thursday. We coaxed it into starting once on the old switch so I could drive it home, then I made the swap, and it worked perfectly.

Friday morning it has the same symptom - first turn of the key, no response; second turn, lights up immediately. But now it won't start; I press the starter and for a second it sounds like it's trying to stop, then all I get is whirring. Release the button and try again, just whirring. Key off then on, then try again, same problem.

Does anyone have any thoughts? Could this be an ecu/eprom? If so, is anyone sitting on a spare that I can test in it before I buy another new part with money I don't have, just to have it not fix the problem?

Thanks,
~A

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