09-12-14, 10:12 PM
(09-12-14, 08:12 PM)Fazerider link Wrote: The battery ought to survive at least 30 seconds of cranking the engine over before it sinks that low. Either it's not getting charged or is duff or, as you suggest, the starter is drawing more current than it should. Seems like an odd fault, but hopefully it's as easy a task to swap as it is on the original Fazer.
I'm going to take the battery down to a local motor spares shop tomorrow and get them to test it again to see if it's gone duff.
My other hope is to find someone in the Portsmouth area who has a spare battery and a set of jump leads which I can use to bridge over mine and see if the voltage drop still happens.
Quote:Though... if you need to take the rad off the FZ6 to change the plugs, replacing the starter is probably an engine-out job. :lol
The problem is that there's virtually no space to manoeuvre between the plugs on the left hand side and the back of the radiator. I have found some instructions which suggest that it is possible with some (well, quite a lot of) fiddling, but I've not tried that yet.
The starter actually looks easier to do, provided you have a very long and thin extension to go onto a socket driver to get to the bolts which are buried in the middle of the engine.