Sounds like an easy enough problem to fix. How old is the bike?  
Any previous electrical problems/got REALLY wet recently?

you'll find your "fuse box" under the right side side-cover
(or is it under the seat on the side, can't remember)
either way you must remove seat (2 screws) and side-cover
(2 screws), you'll need a 20A regular fuse (yellow kind I think).

Also make sure your battery's connectors are tight, as is the
chasis ground cable (-) that connects to the back of the engine
...easy job, done in 5 minutes, lets us know how it goes.

RP

 On mine I can get to fuses without removing the tank.

Get low & look up between seat edge & frame along where the right thigh would be if riding. Look for a white box about 3/4"x 3/4" or so,,cant remember how tall, but nothing else is even close to this is size, shape, color. Easiest way is pull the seat the first time, after that, youll never need to fo the fuses.

Having checked the fuses and found them OK, charge the battery then voltage test it before and after starting the engine.

Battery can lose a cell, show proper voltage for all static tests then drop that cell under load (starting) and not have enough voltage to run the electronic ignition module even if attempting to crank it over.

9 volts will crank your starter (slowly) but it will not run your module.

I will def try the connections tom Demin. I've heard that from a few other people as well. I saw some corrosion around the + so I hope thats it.

I check the fuses and they're all good. There was a lot of gunk on a connection from the neg side of the batt so I cleaned that and when I hooked up my car batt to my bike batt..and the lights came on and she tried to start...but then all I heard was clicking.

So as you guys can tell I'm trying to narrow it down. I've heard the clicking before when I ran it down trying to start it w a bad spark plug. But when that happened I was able to jump it from my car. I'm hoping cleaning out the terminals will do the trick.

Any other adivse would be great. Thanks.

conlime wrote on 09/20/09 at 19:41:45:


This is probably too late to help, but maybe someone else with the same problem will find this thread via a search.

If you're relatively certain that the battery terminal connections are clean and tight, the next thing I'd check would be the connections on the non-battery ends of the two battery cables.

I'm assuming that the car battery was good and strong....