So, it's running now
while I was waiting on an ECU I kept troubleshooting the thing. I left the ECU disconnected for a few days and plugged it back in to check some stuff and the fuel pump started running when I turned the key on. Tried to get it to start and the fuel pump turned off again. Unplugged the ECU again for 24hrs and plugged back in and the fuel pump started running again. Got the thing to fire and it sounded horrible. Like it was missing badly and almost running on one cylinder. Unfortunately, when it died on the trail the first time I was very tipsy and my wife was driving; needless to say I don't remember how it sounded when it died or else maybe I would've gone into the motor in the first place. A not running fuel pump when the key was turned on sent me down a rabbit hole. I started with checking the valve clearance and both cylinders. Valves were extremely tight on the intake and loose on exhaust. Put them back to spec when I noticed cylinder 2 timing chain looked really loose. Check timing and cylinder 2 was way out and noticed the chain could skip over the sprocket. Timing chain tensioner was trashed. Got a new tensioner, retimed and it fired right up. The machine still had a not so good tick that was driving me and the wife crazy so I changed the other tensioner and now all is good! So I guess the ECU and I'm assuming the crank positioner had some sort of magical lock that killed the fuel pump so the motor wouldn't grenade and the only way to reset it was keep the ECU unplugged from the harnesses for 24hrs or longer. Other moral of the story is if one tensioner goes bad, assume the other is trashed too. So happy it's running smoothly again!
while I was waiting on an ECU I kept troubleshooting the thing. I left the ECU disconnected for a few days and plugged it back in to check some stuff and the fuel pump started running when I turned the key on. Tried to get it to start and the fuel pump turned off again. Unplugged the ECU again for 24hrs and plugged back in and the fuel pump started running again. Got the thing to fire and it sounded horrible. Like it was missing badly and almost running on one cylinder. Unfortunately, when it died on the trail the first time I was very tipsy and my wife was driving; needless to say I don't remember how it sounded when it died or else maybe I would've gone into the motor in the first place. A not running fuel pump when the key was turned on sent me down a rabbit hole. I started with checking the valve clearance and both cylinders. Valves were extremely tight on the intake and loose on exhaust. Put them back to spec when I noticed cylinder 2 timing chain looked really loose. Check timing and cylinder 2 was way out and noticed the chain could skip over the sprocket. Timing chain tensioner was trashed. Got a new tensioner, retimed and it fired right up. The machine still had a not so good tick that was driving me and the wife crazy so I changed the other tensioner and now all is good! So I guess the ECU and I'm assuming the crank positioner had some sort of magical lock that killed the fuel pump so the motor wouldn't grenade and the only way to reset it was keep the ECU unplugged from the harnesses for 24hrs or longer. Other moral of the story is if one tensioner goes bad, assume the other is trashed too. So happy it's running smoothly again!