(03-04-13, 12:24 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=Fazerider link=topic=7028.msg67026#msg67026 date=1364977617]
That sort of voltage drop while thumbing the starter is to be expected. I don't think that, or the fact that you are having to run the starter for a long time before the engine fires, indicates a duff battery. Quite the opposite in fact.
I'd be more suspicious of the mixture. Are you applying choke before trying to start? My Fazer starts readily without choke in warm weather... in cold conditions it needs it, but it has to be applied first. Weirdly, if it doesn't fire up without and then I apply choke, it just floods.
So, if you've not been doing that, give it a try. If you have been, make sure your choke cable is working i.e. pulling the little bar at the top of the carbs that actuates the four choke plungers.
He's touching 9 volts and you don't think there's a battery issue at all ??? :lol
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Well I can see were both Fazerider and yourself are coming from.
You maybe right in saying that there is a battery problem with only 9 volts....but that might not be 100% given until further tests. He had severed wires, blown fuses and a lot of screwing about done to those electrics. What if in some way that all this skullduggery has in turn damaged the rectifier/regulator?? That would change the game then. The battery could be perfect still, but just not receiving a charge and just dipping down to 9 volts trying to run the fuel pump, dash lights, fuel gauge, digital clocks, TPS, ect ect when he took his reading when the bike was running.
What myself and Fazerider are saying too, is that if the battery is goosed, then he obviously had 9 volts before the incident to begin with, and it was enough to crank the engine and keep the bike going with lights all along. He had no starting incidents prior to the attempted theft.
And even after the incident, he also said that the battery is spinning the motor mad, which suggests that there is still plenty of jizz in the battery to at least crank the engine. That leads to believe that he has other issues than just a battery....if it is a battery at all.