I just had a very interesting couple of days, but I'll try and keep things to the point. My bike and battery essentially die after running a short time now.
I took about a 400 mi. ride. Over half of it was fine, but then it started. My FI light came on, and my radar detector was reading low voltage. I pulled over at a McDonald's to make sure the battery terminals or nothing else that's easy to get to came loose. Everything looked fine, so I thought I would just get the seats back on and get back as soon as I could, me still being about 150 mi. away from home. The bike would only turn over about half way. Nothing. I was lucky enough to find someone with cables, and it started right up. I got only 30 mi. when it started happening again. I was hoping it was something I could just ride through, but my gauges stopped reading shortly after, then the lights started dimming, then the engine just died out with some sputtering.
It was the middle of the night at this point, and a jump obviously wasn't going to get me home. So I had a wrecker take the bike and I to a Suzuki shop that was only a couple exits up and happened to have a motel, smelly as it was, walking distance from it.
I got into the shop as soon as they opened the following morning. They weren't outfitted to do any serious work on it, but they did charge and test the battery and made sure the charging system was working. The battery charged for three hours. They put what looked like a glorified volt meter on it to make sure it was reading 14v at 5k RPM. Everything tested fine he said. So I paid them $25 and I was on my way.
I stopped on the side of the road to use my phone a short time later, perhaps only 20 mi. up the road. Well the bike wouldn't start back up. With quite a bit of effort and about 40 minutes, I was able to push start it thinking the alternator would keep it running until I got home, and I just wouldn't turn the bike off until then. I should have known better after it died on me mid run the first time, but I thought it would be fine since the shop said the charging system was peachy. I thought I would just have to order a new battery or something after I got home.
Well, it happened again a short time later, of course. The rest is irrelevant to the problem. Just know I eventually loaded it up in my truck and hauled the bastard back myself.
The kid at the first shop seemed to want to think it was my radar detector, laser jammers, and vizalert causing the problem. I've had these things on there for almost 1,000 miles without trouble however. If they were the problem, what would be causing it now? And why did it only show up well over half way into my 400 mi. ride?
Thanks for the help.
I took about a 400 mi. ride. Over half of it was fine, but then it started. My FI light came on, and my radar detector was reading low voltage. I pulled over at a McDonald's to make sure the battery terminals or nothing else that's easy to get to came loose. Everything looked fine, so I thought I would just get the seats back on and get back as soon as I could, me still being about 150 mi. away from home. The bike would only turn over about half way. Nothing. I was lucky enough to find someone with cables, and it started right up. I got only 30 mi. when it started happening again. I was hoping it was something I could just ride through, but my gauges stopped reading shortly after, then the lights started dimming, then the engine just died out with some sputtering.
It was the middle of the night at this point, and a jump obviously wasn't going to get me home. So I had a wrecker take the bike and I to a Suzuki shop that was only a couple exits up and happened to have a motel, smelly as it was, walking distance from it.
I got into the shop as soon as they opened the following morning. They weren't outfitted to do any serious work on it, but they did charge and test the battery and made sure the charging system was working. The battery charged for three hours. They put what looked like a glorified volt meter on it to make sure it was reading 14v at 5k RPM. Everything tested fine he said. So I paid them $25 and I was on my way.
I stopped on the side of the road to use my phone a short time later, perhaps only 20 mi. up the road. Well the bike wouldn't start back up. With quite a bit of effort and about 40 minutes, I was able to push start it thinking the alternator would keep it running until I got home, and I just wouldn't turn the bike off until then. I should have known better after it died on me mid run the first time, but I thought it would be fine since the shop said the charging system was peachy. I thought I would just have to order a new battery or something after I got home.
Well, it happened again a short time later, of course. The rest is irrelevant to the problem. Just know I eventually loaded it up in my truck and hauled the bastard back myself.
The kid at the first shop seemed to want to think it was my radar detector, laser jammers, and vizalert causing the problem. I've had these things on there for almost 1,000 miles without trouble however. If they were the problem, what would be causing it now? And why did it only show up well over half way into my 400 mi. ride?
Thanks for the help.
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