Bokobob
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Introduced myself an hour or so ago. Recap: Bob in North Carolina, 83 years old, 36 bikes so far counting the 96 Savage LS 650 I brought home today. Have two bikes left. Rebel 250 and Savage.
Ask me to define ohm, amp, watt, volt and I am (way) out of my depth. Thus the subject of this posting. New-to-me bike has 12000 miles.
Tackling "dying' battery is first item on fix list. It only gets one and at most two starts after a charge before it cranks insufficiently. (Headlight remains very bright.) I plan to take it out and make sure it is filled with distilled water. Then take to get it checked to see if it is any good. I am hoping it isn't, so that I can buy a Yuasa battery, install it, and be care free for awhile...Of course if instead (or also) there is a bad stator or rectifier that is another matter. First things first.
I did hook up a voltmeter to the battery while it was running at maybe 2000 rpm and it registered 12 volts. the meter shows that the "good" charging number is a bit less or more than 14 volts. (I have no idea what that means)….
Clutch also slips. I can live with it for awhile but would like to remedy it before late spring and have seen tutorials claiming the clutch doesn't usually fail, but it gets caked with a substance that makes it slip and can usually be remedied by sanding the discs (is discs the right term?) and the fiber parts and soaking in oil and replacing...I'd also put in heavy duty springs from Barnett. I can afford new parts for it and would buy Barnett brand if that would be a good bit easier.
Any suggestions, links to good explanations, comments, etc., are very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance for any assistance from y'all.
Bob in North Carolina
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