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  1. saddlebum
    Hey yammer its not BLUE you made all that chidish fuss for nothing:big-grin-emoticon:
  2. saddlebum
    count me in for 2
  3. saddlebum
    Hey we have minds too you know were not just body's ----
  4. saddlebum
    What the dealer is doing is monitering how much the battery discharges over a period of time and for that he is using the correct setting. However if he is looking for parasitic drain then he should have it set on DC amps ( Preferably with multiple scales so you can measure in milliamps if it is a small drain or amps if it is a large drain ) and place between the ground cable which he would disconnect from the battery and the neg battery post. you then systematicly pull fuses until the amp draw drops to pin down the circuit that is guilty
  5. saddlebum
    Me thinks Between us George we have given enough food for thought in this thread alone which should help with most electrical issues.
  6. saddlebum
    Depends Adult Diapers they are padded and help reduce bathroom stops.:rotfl::rotfl:
  7. saddlebum
    This is why I use the abve test using a high beam to load the cicuit. If only one or two strands in the wire are good they will easly carry the 12volts under a light load but load it up with the high beam connected along with the voltmeter and the voltage shown in a bad or weak circuit will drop drasticaly bcause of the thinned out wire, and or bad, loose or dirty connections cannot pass enough currant to maintain 12volts causing a voltage drop thus failing the test (think of a garden hose being pinched in the middle) If it passes this test you can be assurd all your connectios are good. there is no reason to tear the circuit apart and look for a fault that this test indicates is not there. and if the circuit fails this test well grab a case of beer sit down and get to work and start looking for the fault. With some variations to your hookup you can even narrow down to were you should start looking for the point of fault. I have used the test for thirty years working on trucks and trailers it has never failed me and has saved me hours of of unnessary work because if the test part or parts pass this test you need not waste time looking for something that is not there and can quickly move on to the next step. And this were an ohmeter falls short because it does not load the circuit being tested. An ohmeter for example will tell you a battery cable with one strand remaing or a coorroded terminal is good when its not, while the test I described will find it instantly and fail that cable. EG: I have seen wires turned to green powder pass enough currant for an ohmeter to pass it. a volt meter will shoow 12volts until you connect the high beam along side the volt meter and suddenly the volt meter drops to zero volts or even 1-2 volts because the wire or connection cannot now carry the increased load. you now know you have a problem and roughly were it is to be found.
  8. saddlebum
    In maney cases the reason for the above 2 situations is because they have 2 voltage supply wires 1 from the ignition which is turned on and of with the key and a 2nd which is live all the time this second one is used to retain your settings in the memory. A motorcycle battery does not have enogh reserve capacity to support this memory feature for a very long time thus draining the battery. the solution here is to A) move that second wire to the ignition source. unfortunatly you will loose your preset stations each time you turn the bike off but it beats a dead battery every time you want to start the bike or B) put a switch on this wire and remember to switch it off when you park the bike for extended periods.
  9. saddlebum
    Another simple and quick test is to use an automotive test light. Connect as though you were running a bypass wire if the circuit being tested is good the light will NOT light up. On the other hand if the cicuit is bad or has a weak point the light will glow. the weaker the ciciut the brighter the bulb will glow because it is trying to help out. You can also use this metod to check suspect points in the cicuit by using the test light to bridge the suspect fault here again if the light glows when you load the cicuit the piont between the two ends of the test light is bad or dirty. again this eliminates a lot of time and unnecessary tear down
  10. saddlebum
    I like that friction sone principle also. Except I have to wonder how this would affect clutch wear since you are actually ridding the clutch
  11. saddlebum
    Dues for this site is the best money you will ever spend, and your really not spending that much at all
  12. saddlebum
    Great to hear you are up and running again Wayne . See you sat
  13. saddlebum
    As always there are a lot of electrical issues coming up in these forums maney of which are ground related. Most go through a lot of agravation checking there grounds only to find out there is nothing wrong with the ground. True you should always eliminate any possible ground faults as a first step in diagnosing electrical issues. so here is a very useful and simple test to verify your ground condition. what you need a voltmeter a high beam headlight two 3 ft lengths of wire two aligator clips A) connect an alligator clip to one end of each wire B) connect the other end of each wire to a terminal on the high beam headlight 1) connect voltmeter to battery and record the voltage reading eg: 12V 2) connect the alligator clips from the high beam to the batt and record the resulting reading eg: 11.5 V the difference is your voltage drop eg: 0.5 v 3) disconnect the high beam aligator clip and the volt meter test lead from the neg post of the battery only 4) connect the volt meter neg lead to the engine block and read record the voltage reading eg: 12v 5) connect the alligator clip from the high beam to the same point on the engine block and not the voltage eg: 1) 11.2 v voltage drpo is relitivily close to that recorded in step (2) your ground to the engine is good you need not look any further. If for example your voltage upon connecting the high beam dropped to say for eg: 7v than you have a ground issue and need to locate it 6) repeat steps (4 & 5) but connect to the frame of the bike to test if the frame has a proper or faulty ground. this test takes only several minutes to perform and is far more reliable than using an ohmeter because an ohmeter does not load up the circuit which would pass under a light currant load but fail under a heavy load. slight modifications of this test can be used to load test any wire on the bike and will instantly reveal if a wire or circuit is sound or faulty with out having to tear the whole bike down eleminating a lot of unecessary work. By leaving the voltmeter and head light connected to the neg side of the battery and moveing the positive side connections in the same maner the positve side of you electrical system can also be tested you must take more care however when loading up the positve side of the electrical system to be sure you don't accidently load up a sensitive component in the sysem by mistake. In such case i often disconnect both ends of the circuit apply voltage to one end of the wire and connect my voltmeter and then my test load to the other end.
  14. saddlebum
    One of my bad habits is to put the kick stand down while runnig in first gear, which of course kills the engine and then I walk away leaving the key in the on position. You will never guess what happens, you come back and the battery is dead. Another one is if you turn the key too far when locking the steering head the parking lights stay on. guess what happens. Right again dead battery:bang head::bang head:
  15. saddlebum
    long version We the unwilling have worked so long for the unknowing doing so much with so little for so long that we can almost do anything with nothing
  16. saddlebum
    dont you mean 41 jap bikes:banana:
  17. saddlebum
    I know I know----- the BLUE line :rotfl::rotfl:
  18. saddlebum
    maybe once she finds out your special she will boot you out too:rotfl: P/s mine is 54269. also check Smith its numbeer one , hard too beleive
  19. saddlebum
    What is going on here 29 posts and not a single Harley bash and you Yammer just cuss its BLUE your letting him off. What happend to all the hard core Harley bashing Venture riders I grew to be so proud of on this site. Just cuss its a version 2 wannna be is no excuse. We must maintain our resolve. We must crtisize. we mus----- Ahh what the heck it is i nice looking bike and it is still a bike and :ice_congrats-vi6886on your new ride:thumbsup:
  20. saddlebum
    I am not a big fan of using an ohmeter to test for high resistance in a wire. all to often I have seen faulty wires pass the ohmeter test. I prefer to to load test the circuit. To do this you disconnect the wire (not the bat end) connect a volt meter to it and read the voltage connect the clamp of a test light to the negative side of the battery. while reading the voltmeter touch the other end of the test light to the voltmeter probe. If the wire is good you should not see more than a 1/2 volt drop on the meter, if it ..is bad the voltage will take a real nose dive .you can test any part of the cicuit with minor modifications this way on both ground and pos sides. another way is to use a test light as a bypass wire (do not disconnect any wires with this method ) you connect as though you were doubling up the wire you testing. Simply power up the cicuit if the wire you are testing is ok the light will not light up , if it is bad the light because it is trying to carry the load for the bad wire will light up. The worse the wire the brighter the bulb will glow. I also prefer to use an ammeter to test alternator output because a voltmeter only tells you the state of the battery, not the actually condition of the alternator. an alternator can work 100 % but the battery my not be capable off taking it all.
  21. saddlebum
    mine did something like that and it was a faulty plug instead of the spark going from tip to tab it was jumping side ways to the body of the plug. I put in four new plugs vibration gone
  22. saddlebum
    Got the day time off so I will be there and if there is some realstate left for a small tent i will be soft walling it.
  23. saddlebum
    went for a 400 km ride about 7 hrs on sunday I must have passed 100 or more harlys going the other way and every last one of them waved some even before i waved at them
  24. saddlebum
    Hey condor nice use of space !!! you been watching those home improooovement shows again haven't you ? Come on dont lie, fess up you have havent you.
  25. saddlebum
    totaly impressed that is a sweet looking machine . Hope you got lots of sun glasses though.
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