Issue with smoke and oil?
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Unfortunately the negative cable is new as well. wiggling it would make my the bike electrical go on after it would go off when I hit the starter. The old cable was beat and the previous owner only had electrical tape wrapped around ends of the cable. I tried a different battery and the exact same thing happened. I found out that the bike still did this when I wiggled positive cable. So I replaced that too. Unfortunately that didnt solve it. I wiggle and tug every connection to see if anything is loose elsewhere or if that will make the bike electrical go on and off. Nothing execpt a wiggle on the negative cable with make the lights go back on
Last edited by BiggCliff412; Feb 7, 2020 at 10:31 AM.
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Without "hands on eyeballing it" I can only think of 3 things -
(1) there's a short somewhere up the line, causing the main breaker to open and just happens to reset about the time you get to the cable.
(2) and (or) the insulator for the stud on the starter solenoid where the (+) cable connects is cracked and shorting occasionally on the body of the solenoid. That can easily happen when tightening the cable if you don't hold the jam nut under the cable while tightening the outer nut and the stud turns. That will definitely smoke your battery!
(3) I'm not that familiar with that model of bike, but I think the ground cable bolts to the starter mount bolt and there's another ground cable or strap that goes from under the rear of the primary to the frame. check that one out also.
Good luck Cliff
(1) there's a short somewhere up the line, causing the main breaker to open and just happens to reset about the time you get to the cable.
(2) and (or) the insulator for the stud on the starter solenoid where the (+) cable connects is cracked and shorting occasionally on the body of the solenoid. That can easily happen when tightening the cable if you don't hold the jam nut under the cable while tightening the outer nut and the stud turns. That will definitely smoke your battery!
(3) I'm not that familiar with that model of bike, but I think the ground cable bolts to the starter mount bolt and there's another ground cable or strap that goes from under the rear of the primary to the frame. check that one out also.
Good luck Cliff
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Lol. No need to pound your chest about a suggestion. My plugs were white and I had coughing. A 46 nor a 48 is too rich to shut a bike down to inoperable.
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It's rich enough to shut it down inoperable if they're fouled by running it even richer with the enrichner a few minutes and shutting it down.
Your bad ground cable could also cause it to not fire even if it seems to turn it over fine.
I'm done pounding. ;p
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Your plugs were white because they should be. You had coughing because you had an intake leak. Then you tried to fix it by jetting up first.
It's rich enough to shut it down inoperable if they're fouled by running it even richer with the enrichner a few minutes and shutting it down.
Your bad ground cable could also cause it to not fire even if it seems to turn it over fine.
I'm done pounding. ;p
It's rich enough to shut it down inoperable if they're fouled by running it even richer with the enrichner a few minutes and shutting it down.
Your bad ground cable could also cause it to not fire even if it seems to turn it over fine.
I'm done pounding. ;p
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