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Message started by ringo on 10/07/06 at 16:44:57

Title: Wont' Start... please help nOOb!!
Post by ringo on 10/07/06 at 16:44:57

Hi all,

Well day 2 on this forum and I'm already totally at your mercy. Here's the problem:

- I unknowingly switched the ignition to the 3rd setting (not on or off, but the 3rd one) last night when I got home

- Assuming this was a setting for lights and I had killed my battery over night, I looked at the manual and uninstalled the battery, bringing it in to a local bike mechanic to charge

- I picked the battery up 2 hours later, as recommended and tried to reinstall it but ran up against an issue:

- I don't see any bolts where the screws go through the positive/ negative wires on the battery and I don't remember any being there. But now when I put the wires on top (negative on the left, positive on the right), there is nothing to secure the screws.

Well, I basically just put it together as it was, leaving the screws somewhat loosely in the connections to the battery. I tried to start it up and all I get is a very rapid "tick-tick-tick-tick-tick" and the engine sometimes tries to turn over once or twice but that's it.

I should also mention I just bought the bike yesterday. It has 1300 miles and ran like a charm on the 30 mile ride home. I rode it 3 other times yesterday with no problems, so I am confident that there is nothing major wrong here (except it runs lean, which I mentioned in my first thread).

Please someone help me! Is it possible that I was given the wrong battery? Why won't the wires attach properly? Am I missing some bolts? And why the hell won't it start up even if the connections aren't 100% secure?

THanks a ton. My poor baby is stranded now and I'm just miserable!
:'( :'(

Title: Re: Wont' Start... please help nOOb!!
Post by mickthelimey on 10/07/06 at 16:59:35

Ringo, your battery cables are loose,that's why you get the tick tick noise, you need the two nuts that hold the bolts on your battery terminals,they can be a bit tricky to get on ,I use a pair of tweezers to hold the nuts in place , then screw in the bolts or screws as you call them,seems like you lost the nuts ,and there is nothing worse than loosing your nuts.

Title: Re: Wont' Start... please help nOOb!!
Post by Rogue_Cheddar on 10/07/06 at 17:15:21

mickthelimey wrote:

seems like you lost the nuts ,and there is nothing worse than loosing your nuts.

Thank God that wont happen to me, cuz my wife keeps mine in her purse. I get to use them on special occasions. :D

Title: Re: Wont' Start... please help nOOb!!
Post by Savage_Rob on 10/07/06 at 18:13:34

Rogue_Cheddar wrote:

Thank God that wont happen to me, cuz my wife keeps mine in her purse. I get to use them on special occasions. :D

ROFLMAO!

Title: Re: Wont' Start... please help nOOb!!
Post by georgekathe on 10/07/06 at 18:51:10

ringo -

glad you got help so quick from mick - sounds right to me, though not had it happen to my Savage (never loosened battery terminals other than to put in some connecting piece so I can "trickle charge" it with my Battery Tender if I leave it for too long/deaden the battery).

as far as rogue cheddar - that sounds painful, mate!

as far as savage rob - whaaaaat? (can't understand that one at all!

Title: Re: Wont' Start... please help nOOb!!
Post by Max_Morley on 10/07/06 at 19:22:21

Ringo, if you did not realize the nuts were loose after you took the screws out, they probably fell out as you moved the battery around. They usually come with a new battery so any good battery shop should have a couple of the little packages sitting around when the used the old ones over. I have a couple in my metric nuts drawer and would gladly send them to you, but you should be able to find some quicker locally. You also maybe able to find them if you look near the Savage on the floor, where ever you set the battery when you transported it and be sure to ask the charger person if they were on the shelf when the got done charging it. I think the are standard 6mm x 1 pitch nuts anyway, but probably a different material for the battery. Take a bolt to home depot/lowes or whatver is around you and find a couple. May be some on your license plate bolts and then use 1/4 US fasterners for it for now. Max

Title: Re: Wont' Start... please help nOOb!!
Post by Savage_Rob on 10/07/06 at 21:52:38

georgekathe wrote:

as far as savage rob - whaaaaat? (can't understand that one at all!

ROFLMAO = Rolling On the Floor Laughing My @ss Off.

Title: Re: Wont' Start... please help nOOb!!
Post by ringo on 10/08/06 at 20:00:09

thanks everyone. i got the screws and connected it and it still wouldn't start (this was after bringing the battery to a bike shop and a 2 hour charge).
anyways, put some jumper cables on and it started right up. guess the charge wasn't enough.

thx.

Title: Re: Wont' Start... please help nOOb!!
Post by georgekathe on 10/08/06 at 22:39:17

thankyou for the translation into English, Savage Rob! :)

glad to hear the bike started, ringo!