Tauranga Rant and Rave

[Kornholio]

Har har Karen.


I need urgentish help!! STill having the dead battery startup problems with my bike but when I pulled the battery out to charge it and checked it with a Voltmeter, it had a full charge of 12.03. Only two things I can think of, either my charging system is fucked or I need to replace the spark plugs. I'm hoping it's the later cause the first will be exphensive.

Any ideas?

I think the attached pic may offer some assistance to your lil problem .....

[Waylander]

J ask 2much he can use the multimeter pretty well

if, he's online....

[Waylander]

I think the attached pic may offer some assistance to your lil problem .....

Good thing I'm willing to get my hands dirty working on the bike to fix things.

[2much]

just measuring across the battery terminals like that won't tell you shit...

Check the voltage across the battery terminals while winding the starter over: if it drops below 8-9V then your batteries flat (but not nessasarily fucked)

Check the voltage across the battery terminals with the bike running: should be 13.5-14V, if not, your charging system is faulty.

If your battery isn't sealed, pop the caps off (carefully) and if one or more of the cells are bubbling while the bike is running then the battery is fucked.

Lastly, with the bike turned off,disconnect one of the terminals and connect an Amp meter in series (iene lead to the battery terminal and the other lead to the cable you disconnected). This will tell you if anything is drawing current while the bike is turned off (reading should be 0). DO NOT attempt to start the bike while doing this test.

try that.

[saul]

if, he's online....

Ya see you just say the magic words and he appears

Go on then J go and do that stuff then come back and tell us the good news

[2much]

Excuse me lol you are a cheeky biatch.

No use lying about it though so I guess not

Don't worry mate, atleast you're not swimming backwards

J ask 2much he can use the multimeter pretty well

haha was busy typing!

I think the attached pic may offer some assistance to your lil problem .....

Always so helpful aren't you!

[Matt Bleck]

I think the attached pic may offer some assistance to your lil problem .....

ses' the guy with the yellow bike....

[Cajun]

ses' the guy with the yellow bike....

nothing wrong with yellow bikes

[Waylander]

just measuring across the battery terminals like that won't tell you shit...

Check the voltage across the battery terminals while winding the starter over: if it drops below 8-9V then your batteries flat (but not nessasarily fucked)

Dropped to ten but had the battery on the charger from about 5:45 till just now when trying it. so may have had a low charge before.

Check the voltage across the battery terminals with the bike running: should be 13.5-14V, if not, your charging system is faulty.

Revved it all the way up to 5,000 and still didn't reach 13.

If your battery isn't sealed, pop the caps off (carefully) and if one or more of the cells are bubbling while the bike is running then the battery is fucked.

No bubbling.

Lastly, with the bike turned off,disconnect one of the terminals and connect an Amp meter in series (iene lead to the battery terminal and the other lead to the cable you disconnected). This will tell you if anything is drawing current while the bike is turned off (reading should be 0). DO NOT attempt to start the bike while doing this test.

try that.

Does it matter wich one? Disconnected the negative lead and got a 0.00.

[Matt Bleck]

nothing wrong with yellow bikes

sure

[Kornholio]

Always so helpful aren't you!

I know my shit man

ses' the guy with the yellow bike....

Lol thats twice you've said that you cheeky bugger...any way its not 'yellow' its 'racing canary'

[Waylander]

I know my shit man



Lol thats twice you've said that you cheeky bugger...any way its not 'yellow' its 'racing canary'

I thought your' was custard and Cajun's was yellow....


I'de prefer yellow as we all know what happend at Custard's last stand.

[Kornholio]

sure

DUDE!!!!

[Matt Bleck]

DUDE!!!!

[Kornholio]

I'de prefer yellow as we all know what happend at Custard's last stand.

He was a bloody Canadian too!!!!

Yellow is the fastest color anyway (Just ask Fish what happened on Saturday.....twice even )