Removing Battery 2007 Road King
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RE: Removing Battery 2007 Road King
Does it have a rubber strip on the frameabove the battery? Found a way to get it out of my Dyna this afternoon. Let me know if you want the technique.
There wasn't room to hook up the battery tender without removing it unless I clipped the negative onto the battery ground post on the frame. Like the plug in now.
There wasn't room to hook up the battery tender without removing it unless I clipped the negative onto the battery ground post on the frame. Like the plug in now.
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RE: Removing Battery 2007 Road King
I pulled mine a month ago. It was difficult so I made a device to make it easy.I left the battery bolts out and used a piece of 1/8 tube steel heated it and bent it 90 degree, Like a hook or an L and I used it in the bolt hole and lifted. Worked pretty good
Now I happen to be in the service department this past Tuesday and was telling someone this story and the service manager overheard and he said not to do this. He said that since I have an 07 with factory alarm I should leave it in with a charger plugged in. Yes, even in New England with below 30 degree days he said the batteries do not freeze like they used to he described the new batteries to be almost like a dry cell. My 94 with a wet cell battery is a different case that battery would freeze in my shed.
Plus if I did not put the bike into transport mode first, which I didn't the internal alarm battery will run down and come spring the bike will not start and will require a visit to the dealer.
I don't know if all of that was true,he wasn't trying to sell me anything, he happen to over hear my conversation, I thanked him and when I got home that night I put my battery back in the bike, thealarm was fine and I plugged in my batter tender. Maybe he saved me a few bucks and a headache come Spring maybe he didn't, but I trust him he has never steered me wrong yet.
Now I happen to be in the service department this past Tuesday and was telling someone this story and the service manager overheard and he said not to do this. He said that since I have an 07 with factory alarm I should leave it in with a charger plugged in. Yes, even in New England with below 30 degree days he said the batteries do not freeze like they used to he described the new batteries to be almost like a dry cell. My 94 with a wet cell battery is a different case that battery would freeze in my shed.
Plus if I did not put the bike into transport mode first, which I didn't the internal alarm battery will run down and come spring the bike will not start and will require a visit to the dealer.
I don't know if all of that was true,he wasn't trying to sell me anything, he happen to over hear my conversation, I thanked him and when I got home that night I put my battery back in the bike, thealarm was fine and I plugged in my batter tender. Maybe he saved me a few bucks and a headache come Spring maybe he didn't, but I trust him he has never steered me wrong yet.
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12-15-2007, 11:37 AM
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01-15-2008, 05:47 PM
RE: Removing Battery 2007 Road King
Hi HDlowryder,
Did he mean when you lay the bike up for winter it has to be left in Transport mode, or when you take the battery out it has to be in Transport mode,plus what does transport mode mean.
Wolfy
Did he mean when you lay the bike up for winter it has to be left in Transport mode, or when you take the battery out it has to be in Transport mode,plus what does transport mode mean.
Wolfy
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I pulled mine a month ago. It was difficult so I made a device to make it easy.I left the battery bolts out and used a piece of 1/8 tube steel heated it and bent it 90 degree, Like a hook or an L and I used it in the bolt hole and lifted. Worked pretty good
Now I happen to be in the service department this past Tuesday and was telling someone this story and the service manager overheard and he said not to do this. He said that since I have an 07 with factory alarm I should leave it in with a charger plugged in. Yes, even in New England with below 30 degree days he said the batteries do not freeze like they used to he described the new batteries to be almost like a dry cell. My 94 with a wet cell battery is a different case that battery would freeze in my shed.
Plus if I did not put the bike into transport mode first, which I didn't the internal alarm battery will run down and come spring the bike will not start and will require a visit to the dealer.
I don't know if all of that was true,he wasn't trying to sell me anything, he happen to over hear my conversation, I thanked him and when I got home that night I put my battery back in the bike, thealarm was fine and I plugged in my batter tender. Maybe he saved me a few bucks and a headache come Spring maybe he didn't, but I trust him he has never steered me wrong yet.
I pulled mine a month ago. It was difficult so I made a device to make it easy.I left the battery bolts out and used a piece of 1/8 tube steel heated it and bent it 90 degree, Like a hook or an L and I used it in the bolt hole and lifted. Worked pretty good
Now I happen to be in the service department this past Tuesday and was telling someone this story and the service manager overheard and he said not to do this. He said that since I have an 07 with factory alarm I should leave it in with a charger plugged in. Yes, even in New England with below 30 degree days he said the batteries do not freeze like they used to he described the new batteries to be almost like a dry cell. My 94 with a wet cell battery is a different case that battery would freeze in my shed.
Plus if I did not put the bike into transport mode first, which I didn't the internal alarm battery will run down and come spring the bike will not start and will require a visit to the dealer.
I don't know if all of that was true,he wasn't trying to sell me anything, he happen to over hear my conversation, I thanked him and when I got home that night I put my battery back in the bike, thealarm was fine and I plugged in my batter tender. Maybe he saved me a few bucks and a headache come Spring maybe he didn't, but I trust him he has never steered me wrong yet.
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