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first gear is ridic hard to turn by hand...could my engine of killed itself? ignore me when I did the belts i was turning it in 6th. 1st is...
Can I do it without the solenoid? Ie remove it and ignore it?
Indeed but it was cranking fine before, so realistically it may not fix the bike at all. Just get it cranking again. But I think the lessons...
yah, works out like that
ah tis fine I ordered it yayday. so yeah if i plug my meter into that wire, both positive and negative I get full 12 volts. or does earth mean...
fair enough, the starter motor does fire into life which is a big plus. thanks :)
eureka. am too much of a wimp to keep them bridged for a long time but the starter motor kicks into life. ive already ordered a spare solenoid...
ah so teh sparks arent a problem?
But how? :P To avoid the sparks and all. I assume I need to ground it on the frame but not sure how to do that?
Right get ready for some electric noobness. Now when I stick the multimeter on both prongs of the starter solenoid I get whatever the battery is...
I can tonight yes, today am refurbing the range rovers lpg reducer :p I swear when one vehicle kicks off the other does for attention
It was 13 something voltage and still no dice on the crank so I'll try and bypass starter solenoid tomorrow
a charger is turning up today so ill have that on it and try to resurrect it. I may just connect bike directly to car battery, or is that a big no no?
The batteries been charging for like 2-3 days now but the optimiser/oximiser just is stuck as a red dot. But when I try another bike it charges it...
Whats annoying is the battery is 4-5 months old at best. Will the bike just refuse to even attempt to crank at that voltage? Its a bit odd...
Yeah all the appropriate lights are on. Its 2001 and UK, Leeds. I did drop the sucker on the side of the solenoid with no fairings on. But...
Battery was around 11.9v but that was when it was jumped. I may remove the battery swap it with another one to see why its not charging cause...
So I go to try and turn it over, completely and utterly dead, tried it with jump lead, also deadsy. the battery isnt charging, I dunno if thats...
Ill give that a shot after the jump thanks
Nah picking some leads up and am jumping it off a Range Rover battery, it can turn a V8 am hoping a V2 should be no problems. Ill give that a...
