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mrlmd1 · 03-13-2013, 11:03 PM

All of the above is fine but if you don't have a fully charged battery to start with, you are wasting all of your time.

Like I said before, first check the battery voltage.

If it's low (12.8 V is fully charged), then hook the battery up with jumper cables to a NON-RUNNING car and try to start it.

If then nothing happens, then have at all the electrical connections and safety switches. etc., 'till you find the problem.

I don't know how many times this has to be repeated -- You must start at the beginning and work down the line to find the problem. Any problem. There is a stepwise procedure or order to follow instead of a shotgun approach where if you get lucky you may fix it but you have no idea what was wrong.
There's no sense in digging into the electrical system if your battery is dead, so start there.

03-13-2013, 11:03 PM	#20
mrlmd1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Crawfordville, Florida Posts: 2,853	Re: Bike won't start All of the above is fine but if you don't have a fully charged battery to start with, you are wasting all of your time. Like I said before, first check the battery voltage. If it's low (12.8 V is fully charged), then hook the battery up with jumper cables to a NON-RUNNING car and try to start it. If then nothing happens, then have at all the electrical connections and safety switches. etc., 'till you find the problem. I don't know how many times this has to be repeated -- You must start at the beginning and work down the line to find the problem. Any problem. There is a stepwise procedure or order to follow instead of a shotgun approach where if you get lucky you may fix it but you have no idea what was wrong. There's no sense in digging into the electrical system if your battery is dead, so start there.
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