Slow Cranking.
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Slow Cranking.
So.
Beautiful Blue Sky today, 38°F, but quite frankly after this winter, this feels balmy. I decided to go riding.
Disconnected the tender, pulled the bike out, and proceeded to start it.
It is sometimes a snot to start since the engine was bumped and freshened late last fall. Today it barely cycled.
My AGM battery is less than 3 years old, and it's been on the tender (And I rode last week.)
So I try again, same result, but I caught a whiff of unhappy electrical components.
I pulled the cover to get at my battery to clean the connections.
What do you recommend that I use to get this cleaned up?
Beautiful Blue Sky today, 38°F, but quite frankly after this winter, this feels balmy. I decided to go riding.
Disconnected the tender, pulled the bike out, and proceeded to start it.
It is sometimes a snot to start since the engine was bumped and freshened late last fall. Today it barely cycled.
My AGM battery is less than 3 years old, and it's been on the tender (And I rode last week.)
So I try again, same result, but I caught a whiff of unhappy electrical components.
I pulled the cover to get at my battery to clean the connections.
What do you recommend that I use to get this cleaned up?
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New one is in, and I had just enough daytime with temps over freezing to put in a 30 mile test run. All the melted snow-water turns to a smooth ice layer very quickly when the sun gets' low enough here. It's smart to be home before then.
Well it's probably smarter to wait a few more weeks, but....
I stopped to hook up with a friend that just two days ago was giving me a bunch of crap at the coffee shop where a bunch of us meet. Of this crowd most are Dual sport, and Italian road bike leaning, and I get a fair amount of razing about Harley's breaking down, leaking etc.
My buddy today had his Honda Transalp, a V-Twin powered Dual sport, and while riding he cooked a CDI module and was running on parade mode.
We stopped on the side of the road and was tinkering to see what was going on, and I looked him straight in the eye and said "Isn't this just typical, you go on a ride with a Harley guy and you end up sitting on the side of the road fixing chit instead of riding."
He just hung his head down started to chuckle and said "O.K. I guess I owe you that one."
At least mine failed in my driveway.
Well it's probably smarter to wait a few more weeks, but....
I stopped to hook up with a friend that just two days ago was giving me a bunch of crap at the coffee shop where a bunch of us meet. Of this crowd most are Dual sport, and Italian road bike leaning, and I get a fair amount of razing about Harley's breaking down, leaking etc.
My buddy today had his Honda Transalp, a V-Twin powered Dual sport, and while riding he cooked a CDI module and was running on parade mode.
We stopped on the side of the road and was tinkering to see what was going on, and I looked him straight in the eye and said "Isn't this just typical, you go on a ride with a Harley guy and you end up sitting on the side of the road fixing chit instead of riding."
He just hung his head down started to chuckle and said "O.K. I guess I owe you that one."
At least mine failed in my driveway.
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I generally start riding pretty early in the season, the entire bike looks like that at this time of year.
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That's some funny $hit right there!
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I had a positive post that got smashed from too many R&Rs. The post cracked, and if I had continued using it that way, it was sure to break off...
I bent some aluminum sheet, into a shape that fit over the bad post. Then I got out my smelting pot that I use for melting lead and other metals, and melted an old dive weight, and poured it into the 'mold' I made out of the sheet aluminum over the top of the well used battery post. Drilled through the newly cast positive post, installed new screw/nut and lock washer, and hooked it back up to the bike. Lasted another 6-7 months til I got a new battery...
Yours may not have sufficient material left to hold any molten lead you pour over it though. IF you wanted to try it, you could drill/tap the post and put a short bolt in, then mold the lead over it. That just might work...
I bent some aluminum sheet, into a shape that fit over the bad post. Then I got out my smelting pot that I use for melting lead and other metals, and melted an old dive weight, and poured it into the 'mold' I made out of the sheet aluminum over the top of the well used battery post. Drilled through the newly cast positive post, installed new screw/nut and lock washer, and hooked it back up to the bike. Lasted another 6-7 months til I got a new battery...
Yours may not have sufficient material left to hold any molten lead you pour over it though. IF you wanted to try it, you could drill/tap the post and put a short bolt in, then mold the lead over it. That just might work...