wantsabike
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Nope I haven’t cuz no one is here to help push it lol
Did some work on my bike and no start now …
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wantsabike
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Pulled gas cap off to release any build up, and have a different battery charger and right now it showing only 90% on it
If it's not starting from your car battery, then it's probably not your motorcycle battery...
Glenn/RZ500
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If you`ve never attempted it wait for someone, or even a stranger will do, people like to help. I`ve done the bump start a few times, hopping on sidesaddle, the potential to fall over is real, especially if the back tire locks, ask me how I know.
Relax
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So before you attached the car battery, all you were getting was clicking and the starter motor wasn't spinning and turning over the engine, (no "chugging")? And with the car battery connected, the starter is spinning and turning over the motor, but the motor won't fire and run on its own? That means your battery is dead and now you need to figure out why the motor won't fire. You said you did an oil change and removed/replaced the stator cover. Did you do anything else, like undoing any wiring from the stator harness? If not, some motors have a sensor under that cover that requires a specific gap for the engine to start/run properly. Maybe you bunped it and knocked it out of alignment?
wantsabike
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Yea when I hooked up the charger it wouldn’t crank, and then when I had the car hooked up I had it running for 10mins or so and then shut it off. And the bike cranked and turned over BUT wasn’t enough juice to get it fire up it seems.
And yes I did an oil change, and then I took the left engine case off. As I needed to swap the gasket cuz it was leaking oil, the stator is attached to the case in this model so it was untouched as well as the wires and plugs were not touched either
wantsabike
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And when the bike would crank over it would only bump maybe 3-4x before clicking again. And before it would bump maybe 5-6x before firing up
I took video but unsure how to post it
I took video but unsure how to post it
Fuel, spark and air.
https://imgur.com/ is a popular option
You'll have to upload it to a 3rd party website and then link it.
https://imgur.com/ is a popular option
wantsabike
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wantsabike
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This is different from what you said earlier. You said the car battery wouldn't start the bike:
Now you said you had it running for 10 minutes, turned it off, then tried to restart it again.
I assume you disconnected the car battery and tried to restart again with just the motorcycle battery.
Of course, it wouldn't start again, your motorcycle battery is toast. It was the car battery starting it the first time. Just running it for 10 minutes won't resurrect a dead battery.
wantsabike
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Sorry I meant the CAR ran for ten minutes to help try and charge the bike battery. I guess I didn’t word it properly my bad
I am very confused. You said you tried to boost the bike with the car battery.
When you connected the cables from your car's battery to your motorcycle battery and tried to start the bike, did it start or not? If not, then you have bigger problems than the motorcycle battery. If your car's working battery will not turn over your motorcycle engine, there is something else happening with the starting system. Did you connect a voltmeter and monitor the voltage on both car and motorcycle battery while connected in parallel? Did it drop the same as with only the motorcycle battery?
Or did you just connect the car battery to the motorcycle battery in order to re-charge it? Because that's not how boosting works...
wantsabike
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So when I had the car beside the bike, I hooked up the jumpers and the bike was off. I ran the car to drive a charge from the car battery to my bike battery. After about ten minutes of the car running I shut it off. As you’re not suppose to try boosting when the boosting car is on/running. It should be off to stop a giant surge to Ecu or similar. Then I tried to start the bike while it was hooked up to the car still but not running. The bike would turn over and crank a few times and then click again like ya see in video above
. Make sense ? Hopefully that’s a little better and less confusing
So when I had the car beside the bike, I hooked up the jumpers and the bike was off. I ran the car to drive a charge from the car battery to my bike battery. After about ten minutes of the car running I shut it off. As you’re not suppose to try boosting when the boosting car is on/running. It should be off to stop a giant surge to Ecu or similar. Then I tried to start the bike while it was hooked up to the car still but not running. The bike would turn over and crank a few times and then click again like ya see in video above
Make sense ? Hopefully that’s a little better and less confusing
Still confused.
In the video, you are holding a Nautilus battery charger. Is this hooked up to both the motorcycle *AND* the car battery while trying to jumpstart your motorcycle? Why would you do this?
RC-31
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I don't think I want to know how the car, the booster (being used as a voltmeter??) and the bike were hooked up together.
If that starting system is dropping a car battery to 6V than there is something like a rag all tied up in the gears under that cover that was removed.
wantsabike
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No the video was just the battery charger ONLY I didn’t get a video of when it was hooked up to the car unfortunately
A battery charger is not going to be pumping out enough amps to start a motorcycle. It's used to slowly charge a battery to full juice. At the most it's charging at 15A. A V-Star 1100 needs at least 10X that amount of cold cranking amps to turn the engine over.
