Seeing as today was 75 degrees I wanted to take a ride when I got home from work. Mounted the bike, turned the key and put it in neutral and when I pushed the starter button nothing happened except the headlight turning off like it does when you start the bike. I am getting plenty of juice from the battery.
Do any of you have suggestions?
Starter button take apart a clean contacts try spraying some contact cleaner in there first.
That sounds like what my bike did last week. At first I thought that my battery was old and would not hold a charge. So I installed a new one. It fired right up. I road the bike for 6 days back and forth to work. Then when I tried to come home the battery did not have enough juice in it to turn the starter but enough to light up the head light. I push started it and made it home. But by the time I got here it was still flat. I hooked up a charger to it and 20 minutes later it fired right off. I then disconnected the positive cable while the bike while it was still running. The motor quite instantly. Indicating either the generator was gone or the rectifyer was shot.
Turned out to be a loose battery cable. Tightened it up and away she went. Thanks guys.
Quote from: ryjb on May 12, 2011, 06:24:34 PM
Turned out to be a loose battery cable. Tightened it up and away she went. Thanks guys.
It's also a good idea while you have the cable off to put a little dielectric grease between the connections.. reduces corrosion and increases connectivity.
Quote from: hootmon on May 12, 2011, 06:58:09 PM
Quote from: ryjb on May 12, 2011, 06:24:34 PM
Turned out to be a loose battery cable. Tightened it up and away she went. Thanks guys.
It's also a good idea while you have the cable off to put a little dielectric grease between the connections.. reduces corrosion and increases connectivity.
Will do thanks
Glad it was something simple.