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GL1500 Underwater

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My 96 goldwing aspencade got caught in a bad flood where I work. Although it was in motorcycle parking the drains backed up in the lot and my bike was under water. I was told the seat was under water. I checked my side saddlebags and water came out when I opened them. Although this was a few hours later, the bike wouldn't fire. It would crank over but thats it. I had exactly 215000 miles on the odemeter. I pulled the starter(it finally did stop cranking) and when I took it apart, water came out and the armature is shot as well as the brushes (only had 10000 miles on the starter rebuild).
I am currently in talks with the my job as to if I will get any money for repairs. Of course I had just dropped my full coverage insurance 6 weeks ago.
Question, I have parts coming to rebuild the starter but I know that will only fix the cranking portion of it. I'm sure it still won't start. I have fresh oil in it and the old oil didn't look too bad so I 'm confident not much water got in the engine. What can I look at and where will be my coil packs or ignition system for my wires be should I not get spark? Thanks for your help-I can't afford to replace this bike at this time.
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Just so you can hear a little encouragement, let me tell you this. I have a neighbor who got a real good deal on a 1500 with a salvage title. The reason for the salvage title was it had been totaled by the insurance company after it had been under water for about 2 days. That was at least 6 or 7 years ago. He described to me what all he did to it to get it running. He is just a little bit above a shade tree mechanic. It is still running to this day. I asked him if any of the components failed in what would be considered a premature time. He said the only thing he had noticed after about 4 years was that the tail pipes were starting to rumble. He figured they were beginning to rust out.

A lot of guys here are saying your bike is toast. They might be right. They might be wrong. It's your bike, your money.


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