Hey everyone, I think I found the source of my issues...

I was looking at my bike and was going to clean the terminals on my fuel pump connector to make sure it was getting power when I realized a couple wires that were extremely corroded and hanging by a thread. Long story short, due to the weak connection to the white connector for the wire coming from my alternator, the inside of the connector had melted and fried itself. I cut the wires, spliced in a new connector, and should have just fixed my problem.


My bike had been dying because no fuel was getting to the motor, I thought the issue was in my petcock/inner filter/fuel pump, but I believe it was the fact that my bike wasn't getting power sometimes and therefor the fuel pump wasn't pumping any fuel.

Does anyone else agree?

 

No, I don't think that's the source of your problem. The connector you're describing is the connector from the Stator. It's common for them to get corroded and burnt due to poor connections. That would cause charging problems and a weak battery for sure. But the fuel pump doesn't take that much power to run and I suspect that your first intuition of it being related to fuel supply issues is correct. Examine the contacts inside that black cover on the back of the fuel pump. I'm not saying it couldn't be the fuel pump connector, anything is possible.

 

Yes I agree, I did a bit of testing via isolation and found that my pump is fully functional, my petcock/inner filter/fuel filter are all working fine. I found out that there is only around 6 volts coming from the power source to my pump, so after tracing back the wires I found that 12 volts are going into my fuel cut off relay and 6 are come out (obviously). So there lies my problem with the relay.

 

Not exactly. If you used a regular meter to make that check, then the reading you got is not accurate. That relay is turned on and off at a very high rate. So the voltage sent to the fuel pump is a pulsed signal and can't be read with a standard meter. The Fuel Cut Relay is a solid state device (read no moving parts) and is very reliable. It's unlikely that your relay is bad.