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Title: Jump Start... Post by EJID on 05/12/11 at 12:23:58 Well it finally happened :( bike left me stranded. Rode into work this morning, no problems. Took a mid-morning run to take care of a few errands that needed to be done, no problems. Went out at lunch to go get a bite to eat and nothing... :-[ One click and nothing. Check all the safeties, try again, not even the click. About this time I realize that I must have switched the key to Park instead of off after my mid-morning run and drained the battery. Round up a buddy to give me a jump and left his truck turned off, connected the ground to the frame of the bike and clamped the screwdriver from the toolkit with the positive jumper cable. He then held the cable/screwdriver up to the positive side of the battery while I cranked the bike. Lit right up :) I've been limping along with this battery for the last 2 years and this is the first time I've been anywhere other than home when it's been dead, so I think I'm ready for a replacement. (Planning on ordering up a Big Crank) But this got me to thinking, that was only on for about 2hrs and drained it completely, if I had replaced the brake/tail light bulb with a LED replacement would it have still started? :-/ |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/12/11 at 12:28:32 Jump starting is all good, I guess, but it sure does ;eave the bikes charging system to recharge the dead battery, which its not exactly meant to do. |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by EJID on 05/12/11 at 12:32:35 I rode it home and put it on the charger until I can get the new battery. The previous owner actually broke off part of the grounding tab on the battery, so he had soldered the cable onto the battery. I previously removed the solder and was able to drill a small hole in what was left of the tab so that I could use a screw to mount the cable as needed. It was a temporary fix that lasted 2 years. |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/12/11 at 12:54:27 Sounds like youre doin it as smart as ya can, while stayin heap! |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by EJID on 05/12/11 at 13:15:12 :o OUCH!!! :o I just looked up the replacements and the Big Crank is going to cost me 89.39 with shipping! The Batteries Plus battery is not any better at 89.99 but we have one of their stores in town, so I might have to go pick one up. |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by Gyrobob on 05/13/11 at 06:29:47 If you ever get stuck in the same situation, and jumping the battery is not an option, you can actually bump start a big thumper like this. The trick is to make sure the piston is on the exhaust stroke when you get the push. First of all, let the battery sit for half an hour with no load on it. If the battery is in reasonable shape but just freshly discharged, it will recover enough voltage to create a spark shortly. Get on the bike, raise the kickstand, set the choke, keep it in third, and with the clutch pulled, either start coasting downhill or have someone push you. When you are going as fast as you can, turn on the ignition, let out the clutch. It might help if you stood up for a second right after you turn on the ignition, and sat down on the bike hard right when you let out the clutch, to give the rear tire a momentary increase in traction. If the trans is not in neutral, or if the clutch is out, does the starter button do anything on a Savage? I'm wondering if hitting the start button when you let out the clutch would do anything to operate the decompression solenoid. I'd go out and try it on my bike, but it is a disassembled lump awaiting more RYCA parts. If your clutch is dragging at all, call AAA. The aforementioned technique will fail. |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by verslagen1 on 05/13/11 at 07:48:04 0F313A272A272A480 wrote:
DON"T PUSH THE BIKE BACKWARD!!! This engages the starter clutch, on pre90's bikes this will bust out the starter gear bosses. On a post90 bike you will hear a twang instead, that's the torque limiter doing its job. Quote:
The safeties make an electrically assisted bump start easy. Push the start button and let out the clutch... the starter is automatically deactivated. But w/o holding in the clutch, the decomp will never activate. |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by EJID on 05/13/11 at 07:59:52 I have bump started the bike from my house before (I live on a hill) but at work it is flat. Charged the battery on the tender last night and it was fully charged this morning for the ride to work. Also got another price for the replacement from my brother who works at the Honda dealership ($42) - would be the regular stock equivalent. |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by Morgii on 05/13/11 at 08:00:49 68565D404D404D2F0 wrote:
I've had to do this a couple times, but I always use 2nd gear... semantics I suppose as long as you get the engine turning over. |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by MotoBuddha on 05/13/11 at 08:15:34 Just don't start this way. http://youtu.be/LA809BN7_2c |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by Morgii on 05/13/11 at 13:56:56 HAHAHA Awesome. "In Soviet Russia, motorcycle drives you!" |
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Title: Re: Jump Start... Post by Boofer on 05/13/11 at 18:35:23 I don't work for Yuasa, but I bought one this Spring for about $60. Same as original. Got it at a local bike sales/repair shop. No freight and had one in stock. |
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