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Bike Wont Start - No Lights
01/26/17 at 23:00:10

I parked my bike about a month ago do to a slight fall whre the front left signal broke.

When I finally fixed it, my bike didn't start, and I mean no lights noghitn.

I put in a new battery https://www.batteriesplus.com/battery/motorcycle/suzuki/boulevard-s40/650cc/2...

Bike still won't turn on, no lights, nothing. Battery tested volts at about 12.7 so that seems right, unless I'm getting all this wrong.

If I'm correct the troubleshoot section says it can be bad contacts.
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1403194022/0#2

2 thigns to consider

1. when fixing the signal i took off the headlight...could that have created a bad contact?

2. I think i accidently left the kill switch on during the month I parked it. (how i did this i dont know, but I want to say it was set to on when i got to work on the signal light.

Can any of this created anything I'm not finding? The bike was fine until the battery sat alone for am onth. Noobie me didnt trickle charge it.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #1 - 01/26/17 at 23:13:25 Did you start it after you fixed it?
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Kruzader Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 129 Stockon, CA Gender:	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #2 - 01/26/17 at 23:20:46 I wanted to. I came home after work, wit ha brand new battery. No lights no sound. Being that I'm not that knowledgable on bikes... I took the meter and i got the voltage of 12.7 with the battery hooked up. So I connected my charger to the trickle cables I added... the battery is hooked up to the bike as we speak.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5112 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #3 - 01/27/17 at 04:40:20 Check the fuses !
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18101 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #4 - 01/27/17 at 04:57:04 If you parked it with the kill switch on.....that is not a problem as long as you had the ignition turned off. If you left the key in the On position and it stayed that way until the battery ran down - that can be a problem for the ignition module.....but your lights should still be working. Check your fuses.
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ohiomoto Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2773	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #5 - 01/27/17 at 05:00:01 Start with the fuses for sure. Did the bike run after the fall? If not then you would want to be sure you didn't damage one of the safety switches (clutch, neutral, kick stand). If it was running when you parked it, go back into the headlight and see what you messed up.
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batman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3806 osceola new york Gender:	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #6 - 01/27/17 at 05:48:10 While your in the head light make sure you connected the turn signal wires correctly(if not that could cause a blown fuse)
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #7 - 01/27/17 at 06:41:54 Charging a battery with 12.7 volts on it doesn't make sense. Bike dropped. Bike running, parked, A month later, would it even TRY to start before you fixed it?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28888 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #8 - 01/27/17 at 08:08:15 Check the connectors to the controls under the tank. sometimes a fall will pull on the cables.
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piedmontbuckeye Senior Member Offline Go Bucks! Posts: 496 Easley, SC Gender:	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #9 - 01/28/17 at 05:07:58 Probably somewhere else, but can you let me know just where the fuses are located? I found a spare in my "tool kit" box, but have no idea where to look if I needed to find on the bike.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28888 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #10 - 01/28/17 at 07:39:25 If they were a snake they would've bit you on the a$$, specifically the right cheek.
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Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights
Reply #11 - 01/31/17 at 00:27:59

Thank you so much to everyone that replied. Work has me really busy these days.

Alright, so thanks for Versy's hint, I found the Fuses.

AND SURE ENOUGH! one of these little bastards was out

I'm going ot replace it tomorrow right after work, and I'll let you guys know if I get it back on.

I hope i didnt do anything to the headlight as all i did was plug and plug cables back, the light that was damage wasnt replace I only replaced the orange cap.

Bike did start after fall, I actually got ot our destination ate and rode back.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights Reply #12 - 01/31/17 at 16:51:16 Was there a splattered look to the fuse guts? Pretty rare for one to just die. High current flow slings bits and pieces of the fuses guts around. That's caused by an electrical problem. As we al know, the definition of an electrical problem is any problem that can't be solved with a hammer.
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Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights
Reply #13 - 02/01/17 at 16:46:20

Fixed!

And you won't believe what it was.

In short, the signal light I was replacing it with, had a longer screw. I didn't notice because the the original screw stripped on me. I was going to replace the entire signal compartment, but ended just doing the orange cap. When I put the new screw in I was also smashing the cables and I had the blow fuse.

I disassembled everything I had done, and the lights came on. So I started putting one screw at a time and turning the key to see if the fuse will blow up.

When I found the screw, I checked the original, (thank goodness I kept it) because I noticed the difference.

I'm back riding. THANK YOU GUYS!

Now I can take it for a ride, drain the oil and send the cam tensioner to versy. FINALLY!

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Re: Bike Wont Start - No Lights
Reply #14 - 02/01/17 at 22:22:32

I did almost the exact same thing when I relocated my turn signals. I thought the thread on the turn signal housing had a sealed end on it so I screwed the bolt in snug ( my bracket was thinner than the fender rail). It pinched one of the wires.

It created a really weird situation where the turn signals would work if I plugged in one at a time, but only one worked if I plugged them both in.

I'm still annoyed I had to pay an auto-electrician to find it, on a mod that should have cost basically nothing. Was kicking myself for a week!

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