no power please help!!
Cruiser
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 196
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From: Murfreesboro, TN
My ThunderMax recommends pulling the main fuse before disconnecting the battery as you will tend to break and make the cable several times when disconnecting it. This will spike the circuits several times and could lead to premature failure of the ECM.
You may want to remember that for future reference.
Your problem sounds like the main fuse. You may have blown it when you disconnected it, especially if you had the switch on inadvertently.
You may want to remember that for future reference.
Your problem sounds like the main fuse. You may have blown it when you disconnected it, especially if you had the switch on inadvertently.
Elite HDF Member
Joined: Sep 2007
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From: Near Myrtle Beach, SC
Lump...you really need a VOM to be troubleshooting this problem. If it's not a fuse then it's probably the battery. As one said, the starting issues you were fearful of was probably not the starter but a weak battery giving you warning signs all along. Chances are it has not been charging much at all if the cell chemistry is shot.
Hopefully that is all it is. If you put a new battery in there and it runs fine for a while then starts this stuff again, suspect a bad stator or voltage regulator.
Hopefully that is all it is. If you put a new battery in there and it runs fine for a while then starts this stuff again, suspect a bad stator or voltage regulator.
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Road Master
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 944
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From: Ct
Gentlemen, I am retarded!!
Thats about it.
Bike is fine, operator is an A-hole, plain and simple
I cant even believe what I did lol but yes its that stupid.
You guys are the best!
I picked up some great tips, downloaded a service manual which I didnt use or need yet and figured out that I need to either have a helper with me or I need to take pics and write stuff down.
Tomorrow I get to go back out and repeat the whole process except I will be a lot more careful.
Thanks for being there, this is why I am a member of this and other forums for support when something happens and your all alone, suddenly a group of riders is there with tips and advice and that always calms be down.
I appreciate all your help.
Damn I am so stupid
Lump
Thats about it.
Bike is fine, operator is an A-hole, plain and simple
I cant even believe what I did lol but yes its that stupid.
You guys are the best!
I picked up some great tips, downloaded a service manual which I didnt use or need yet and figured out that I need to either have a helper with me or I need to take pics and write stuff down.
Tomorrow I get to go back out and repeat the whole process except I will be a lot more careful.
Thanks for being there, this is why I am a member of this and other forums for support when something happens and your all alone, suddenly a group of riders is there with tips and advice and that always calms be down.
I appreciate all your help.
Damn I am so stupid
Lump
Tourer
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 393
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From: Northwest OH
That's what the forum is all about. Sometimes you just need the advice of others to help you get on track. We all make these simple mistakes, that's how we learn. Glad that you got yours figured out.
Mike
Mike
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Road Master
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 944
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From: Ct
its embarrassing, OK I only told you half the story so I could stick to the basic facts and figure out what I did.
thing is, when I disconnected the starter and took the wire from the battery off and tucked it out of the way to get the starter out and back in, I was more focused on this starter as it doesn't quit line up, that's another story, anyway, being super focused on the fitment when I reconnected it I didn't notice that I only connected one wire back to the starter, when I tucked it away I did a good job and I just didn't see it, I didn't even stop and think why is there only one wire?
I should know better.
if I hadn't pulled the battery and then put it back I might not have noticed, but I found it by reconnecting the battery positive cable, as I pulled it it just kpt coming until I was holding it in my hand, lol and only then did I realize DOH! it never got reconnected, I only connected the sending positive, not the receiving input from the battery.
I've often said I know just enough to get myself in trouble.
all I had to do was take my time and use common sense, but when I'm doing something I have never done before I get nervous and over think one thing and overlook another.
I'm glad I didn't ruin anything, going to add a new battery anyway for piece of mind and figure out whether I can use the new starter or not, but I'll wait until I have a new battery to see if the starter is still hard starting sometimes or not.
thanks again, lesson learned, relax and go one step at a time and double check my work and read the service manual first.
lump
thing is, when I disconnected the starter and took the wire from the battery off and tucked it out of the way to get the starter out and back in, I was more focused on this starter as it doesn't quit line up, that's another story, anyway, being super focused on the fitment when I reconnected it I didn't notice that I only connected one wire back to the starter, when I tucked it away I did a good job and I just didn't see it, I didn't even stop and think why is there only one wire?
I should know better.
if I hadn't pulled the battery and then put it back I might not have noticed, but I found it by reconnecting the battery positive cable, as I pulled it it just kpt coming until I was holding it in my hand, lol and only then did I realize DOH! it never got reconnected, I only connected the sending positive, not the receiving input from the battery.
I've often said I know just enough to get myself in trouble.
all I had to do was take my time and use common sense, but when I'm doing something I have never done before I get nervous and over think one thing and overlook another.
I'm glad I didn't ruin anything, going to add a new battery anyway for piece of mind and figure out whether I can use the new starter or not, but I'll wait until I have a new battery to see if the starter is still hard starting sometimes or not.
thanks again, lesson learned, relax and go one step at a time and double check my work and read the service manual first.
lump
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Joined: Oct 2010
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From: DOWN SOUTH
I thought this was going to be a cliff hanger for a min, lmao... Good to hear that you got her runnin again. Have a safe journey Lump.
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