Changed the battery, used the correct battery, battery is fully charged, connected it correctly. might have sparked once. After connected, tried to start it, no electricity. Bike is dead.
Hi I am Vortash .. this may seem like a silly question but I have to ask .. are you sure you connected the terminals the right way round ?. You would be amazed to how many people who text back and say oops no .. lol.. if you did then just check the earth strap if it was loose when you put the new battery on you may have disturbed it and it is not contacting properly .. clean and tighten ..regards Vortash ..
one side of the battery will go to the fuse box the red cable or + the other side will be fastened at some point to the frame ie the term Negative -- earth vehicle that means the whole frame is the negative reurn and if the connections to that frame ie ; earth are dirty then you lose much of your electrics and in the case of the battery earth terminal all of your electrics ... Vortash
hi yes there would be a main fuse follow the battery red terminal to the fuse box ,, if you have a meter check for output from the battery ...usually under the seat or next to the battery like a capsule in line with the power lead ... vortash
Thank you so much for the inapropreate mark it makes me feel so good when someone fully grasps the difficulty of talking to unskilled people about things they no nothing about .. thanks again .. Vortash
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woah slow down....
first, no, it was not a silly question. but i did put the battery in correctly with the terminals.
Im not sure what you mean by disturbing the earth strap though. is that the strap that secures the battery in there?
if so, i didnt think that had anything to do with a connection problem. what do you mean by cleaning it?
i am securing both terminals with screws so they arent loose there. Maybe the negative cable came loose way up insind the bike.. I'm not sure, i will check it.
Do you think that possibly when it sparked that a fuse could have blown? If so is there a fuse that controls all the electricity on the bike. Because none of the electricity works.
Hey, my bro put the battery in wrong on my 08 model. It blew the fuse on the starter relay solenoid so I replaced and now the lights work but it still wouldn't even try to crank. I was able to bypass the solenoid and make the starter motor turn so I replaced the solenoid but to no avail.. I'm guess ignition.. any thoughts?
but wait.. I can hear the click of the solenoid when I hit the ignition.. grr, idk..
It was the simplest thing. The fuse box became unplugged when we pulled it out to check the fuses.
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