2011 FE570. I was out on a trail yesterday and went through a creek with about 1 to 1 and 1/2 feet of water. The first time over, no problem, right through. The second time through on my way back, I accidentally stalled the bike and I could not get it restarted. The water level wasn't even up to the bike frame. I waited a few minutes, tried again and it would not start. I started pushing the bike back to the truck, after about 15 minutes I retried starting the bike, it started and ran for about 3-5 seconds and stalled. Tried it again, same thing. I kept trying and it would not start. Finally the battery went dead. Today, I took the bike to the shop for servicing and the bike started right up. Any ideas out there and tips on what to do if this happens to me again? The dealer thought that may I got water into the air filter, the water never got anywhere near that high. When I stalled the water level was just up to the frame.
2011 FE570 stalled in creek crossing
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I'm going to go with rapid cooling of the engine and exhaust playing havoc with the EFI. It's happened to mine a few times. Usually takes a few minutes of sitting and a few attempts to fire and clear out. i think it just runs too rich and you run into a plug foul condition.
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Did you see you little yellow FI light flashing at all when this happened?
I am going to have to go with Canuck_fe's conclusion. Its the fuel pump. Suzuki had the same problem a few years back.
There are at least two threads going on in the fuel section about this. You'll know if it is the problem b/c it will keep happening. It usually takes about 45 minutes to an hour for the pump to get hot enough to seize. Sometimes, as long as the bike keeps running it won't happen, but, as soon as you shut it off it won't restart.
Normally when you touch the start button momentarily you will see the FI light go on and you will hear the fuel pump run for about 3 seconds, and the bike will start. When the no start thing happens no whirring of the fuel pump.
I have also experienced what Berger said as well. Usually all that takes is to wait 10 seconds, bump the button, the fuel pump cycles and the bike starts.
As far as the water issue goes, what I think happens there is that there is a bunch of steam that comes up off of the motor, and the only place the engine is drawing air from is under the seat on top of the motor. And it basically snuffs out the motor with water vapor.
Here's how I solved that problem: http://www.husaberg.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15312
Did you see you little yellow FI light flashing at all when this happened?
I am going to have to go with Canuck_fe's conclusion. Its the fuel pump. Suzuki had the same problem a few years back.
There are at least two threads going on in the fuel section about this. You'll know if it is the problem b/c it will keep happening. It usually takes about 45 minutes to an hour for the pump to get hot enough to seize. Sometimes, as long as the bike keeps running it won't happen, but, as soon as you shut it off it won't restart.
Normally when you touch the start button momentarily you will see the FI light go on and you will hear the fuel pump run for about 3 seconds, and the bike will start. When the no start thing happens no whirring of the fuel pump.
I have also experienced what Berger said as well. Usually all that takes is to wait 10 seconds, bump the button, the fuel pump cycles and the bike starts.
As far as the water issue goes, what I think happens there is that there is a bunch of steam that comes up off of the motor, and the only place the engine is drawing air from is under the seat on top of the motor. And it basically snuffs out the motor with water vapor.
Here's how I solved that problem: http://www.husaberg.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15312
The FI light did not come on. I did take the bike to the shop for its 15 hour service, told them what happened and had them look it over. When I picked the bike up they said they looked it over and did not see any problem with the fuel pump. He said the issues with the fuel pumped on the Husabergs was fixed prior to me buying the bike. Before leaving he pulled me over to the side and said that when I purchased the bike (from someone else) that when they originally setup the bike they forgot to plug a hole next to the spark plug drain hole. I did not notice that it wasn't plugged before. Anyway, I took the bike out Sunday in the rain, hit some mud puddles, no deep water, and it did not stall. Hopefully all is well.
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