just brought home my 97 bad boy, worked on it all winter, sent it to the indy to tune the carb, was running kind of weird, about 10 blocks from my house, dead....I'm like. no fu--in way....not out of gas, ok turn it to reserve, so i turn it to reserve and look at it kind of weird and try and start it up, nothing, 4-5 clicks, then i look down at the petcock again...it was on reserve when i ran out of gas, can you believe it, they give me the bike on reserve and don't tell me.....wow, so i figured the battery is drained....pushed it home the 10 block( I'm getting old it hurt), plug in the tender, wait for the green light to go on and still CLICK CLICK CLICK! Help!, any ideas what it can be? I'm leaving it plugged in all night and ill see in the morning and yes filled the tank with gas so im good there. Bike was perfect and i spent soooo much time on it all winter. Help would be appreciated. Thanks Ted

 

could it be a bad relay or ground?

 

how can I check that?

 

check battery connections are tight, could be starter solenoid?

 

Battery

 

A lot of times if you kill a battery it has a hard time getting back to what it used to be. Get a volt meter, best tool there is to see the actual strength of your battery. I use it to diagnose battery, conections, relays and wires to see if something is grounding out. I would start with a new battery just to make sure I got all the volts then go from there. Charging may help with a tender but may not go back to 100%. Dont go cheap like I did once and get a battery with caps, get a sealed, no maintenance battery.

 

how long before the tender light turned green? If it was only a short time 10 mins or so start looking at above recs.Several things could be happening to cause what your describing.Remember the BB tanks are only 4.2 gallons.I found out the hard way too.Post up some pics over on the Bad Boy pic thread.

 

If I am understanding correctly, you did not run the battery down...you ran out of gas and it clicked from the git go. Is it a single click when you push the start button, or multiple clicks as long as you hold the button down? Single click, you are losing power from relay to solenoid...wire has come unplugged or relay is bad. Multiple clicks is low voltage...bad connection at battery, low charge, battery is shot.