wickedbiker wrote on 03/25/14 at 08:50:22:Hi everybody I am the guy who bought the cheap savage that had a destroyed engine, bought another engine got it running then stripped out the fuel/air mix screw and drilled out the carburetor badly and now:
I hooked up a stereo had everything working great
ended up leaving it on and draining the battery This killed your battery so I hooked it up to the tail light wires so it could be turned off with the key. Well ever since doing this I haven't been able to start my bike. It acts like it wants to start but its not getting enough power to turn over more than maybe once or twice then just ticking.
I bought a brand new no maintenance high performance battery put it in and same thing turns over barely maybe once or twice then ticking. You never fully charged the new battery, you do have to charge a new battery.
Have you checked your charger? Especially the fancy ones that do maintenance charge after a quick charge can become faulty and give you no sign that they have gone bad. I checked the wires to the solenoid and the starter they are tight, battery wires are always on tight and the battery is always fully charged by myself. I am, not sure what the F! is going on.
Whatever it is it is making a fully charged battery act like it barely has a charge. Have you checked your charger? My bike charger is a simple, non-complicated only one output charger that simply works every time. What sort do you have and what is its output voltage now? A bad charger would explain both of your previous batteries issues all by itself ....I'm so pissed I have spent to me a lot of money $1,500 to get this thing going so I could just have some peace and a ride with 2 wheels and it has been a living hell and I am losing faith. Thanks
"Electrical frustration" is a common thing among bikers -- we have all had the electrical gremlins drive us nuts at one time or another.
Start telling us the battery voltage after you charge it and what it drops down to when you do a single thing.
Avoid doing a lot of things before reporting, or it become very difficult to figure out what did what.
Do a thing, report. Do next thing, report.
Right now make sure you have a good charger. You do that by reporting the voltage on the battery before you hook it up, the initial voltage increase while it is charging, the charging time and the residual battery voltage after you take the charger off and how quickly it drops down if it does drop down just sitting there.