SuzukiSavage.com - Battery Removal

hawk41 Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 65 Gilbert, AZ Gender:	Battery Removal 06/26/16 at 08:47:00 For those of us with marginal mechanical skills, is there a trick to getting the battery to slide out of the holder. Does the positive connection need to be disconnected before removal and, if so, how do I get access to it! Couldn't find any instructions in the manual. Thanks!
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thumperclone Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline PGR rider riding with respect Posts: 5873 Grand Junction Colorado Gender:	Re: Battery Removal Reply #1 - 06/26/16 at 09:20:01 disconnect the neg(-) wire first then slide the battery so you can get to the the pos(+) if you try the pos first you may short out to the frame
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hawk41 Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 65 Gilbert, AZ Gender:	Re: Battery Removal Reply #2 - 06/26/16 at 09:34:48 There-in lies the problem! After disconnecting the negative post the battery will only slide out about 3 inches and no further. Any ideas as to why it is stuck?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28847 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Battery Removal Reply #3 - 06/26/16 at 10:01:47 did you remove the positive lead once you got 3" out?
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hawk41 Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 65 Gilbert, AZ Gender:	Re: Battery Removal Reply #4 - 06/26/16 at 10:06:54 Once again it was the nut behind the wheel! I had just disconnected the wrong post, thinking it was the neg post! Wrong! It was the pos post, so once I figured that out and finally disconnected the neg post it slid out like it should. Oh well! Live and learn, right!
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Battery Removal Reply #5 - 06/26/16 at 10:54:37 Live and learn, right! Well, as long as the mistake isn't fatal..
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Struch Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 134 LA Gender:	Re: Battery Removal Reply #6 - 06/26/16 at 11:09:23 Yes can spark get on fire and beern hall thing down Right JOG
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Battery Removal Reply #7 - 06/26/16 at 11:09:34 Live and learn, right! Well, as long as the mistake isn't fatal..
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batman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3806 osceola new york Gender:	Re: Battery Removal Reply #8 - 06/26/16 at 15:08:53 My problem was always reinstalling ,could never get the nut to stay in place so the bolt would line up and I could tighten the cables. I found that if I cut a small piece of plastic tube off the battery over flow line and slipped it under the nut,it would stay in place and make it very easy.
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Kenny G Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com The Singles Club...LOL Posts: 1754 Robson Ranch, Denton, Texas Gender:	Re: Battery Removal Reply #9 - 06/26/16 at 16:12:42 I use a small piece of very thin sticky back foam to hold the nut in place. I learned that from my friend AJ at The Chop Shop in Keller Texas. I have spent a lot of my time on the floor searching, and cursing those little square nuts. Kenny G
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hotprops Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 180 fort myers fl	Re: Battery Removal Reply #10 - 06/26/16 at 16:39:00 i use a wood chopstick filed to look like a screwdriver
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Re: Battery Removal
Reply #11 - 06/28/16 at 08:30:19

Kenny G wrote on 06/26/16 at 16:12:42:

I have spent a lot of my time on the floor searching, and cursing those little square nuts.

Kenny G

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Just two days ago, I was messing with installing some simple accent lights and when attempting to put the battery back in, I'd spent a few minutes searching the floor of my garage looking for the nut to hold the negative terminal wire in place. I need to try one of these tricks to "cement" it into place.

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Boofer Serious Thumper Offline Nearly too old. Posts: 1760 N Ms Gender:	Re: Battery Removal Reply #12 - 06/28/16 at 21:26:30 My batteries nuts are caged in loosely. I unhook the negative then the positive using a screwdriver straight down through the frame. I don't slide it at all until it is completely unhooked.
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eau de sauvage Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2565 Queensland Gender:	Re: Battery Removal Reply #13 - 06/29/16 at 03:56:08 Always good to wrap some rag around the neg lead after removal as a precaution against shorting. 0.02
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