Bike just clicks and won't turn over. Help
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RE: Bike just clicks and wont turn over. Help
you should always push start in 3rd gear for best results. Check your charging system but I would suspect a different culprit like a faulty FPR could also be the issue. Pull your plugs and try turning it over. You may be hydrolocking.
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RE: Bike just clicks and wont turn over. Help
Put the battery on charge for awhile at least 4hrs min. You can buy a bad battery too. I know that because i bought a bad one awhile back. I keep both my 1000s on a tender threw the winter time. Just my 2cents worth.
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RE: Bike just clicks and wont turn over. Help
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Put the battery on charge for awhile at least 4hrs min. You can buy a bad battery too. I know that because i bought a bad one awhile back. I keep both my 1000s on a tender threw the winter time. Just my 2cents worth.
Put the battery on charge for awhile at least 4hrs min. You can buy a bad battery too. I know that because i bought a bad one awhile back. I keep both my 1000s on a tender threw the winter time. Just my 2cents worth.
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RE: Bike just clicks and wont turn over. Help
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Don't buy a bad one, if you go to a motorcycle shop, wink at the guy and say " I want the good one"
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Before some homophobic shop owner punches you odds are the new battery you got was fine,
If a new battery still would not start your bike and considering the symptoms you described that does sound exactly like a hydrolocked motor. It would be unlikely for this to happen just from a short ride by your friend unless he dropped it but I guess that didnt happen. If oil, coolant, gas, or a combination of those fluids is on your pistons your bike would do just as you described and pulling plugs is the way to find out/fix.
Don't buy a bad one, if you go to a motorcycle shop, wink at the guy and say " I want the good one"
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Before some homophobic shop owner punches you odds are the new battery you got was fine,
If a new battery still would not start your bike and considering the symptoms you described that does sound exactly like a hydrolocked motor. It would be unlikely for this to happen just from a short ride by your friend unless he dropped it but I guess that didnt happen. If oil, coolant, gas, or a combination of those fluids is on your pistons your bike would do just as you described and pulling plugs is the way to find out/fix.
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RE: Bike just clicks and wont turn over. Help
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But if the motor was hyrdrolocked, wouldn't it not even bump start? I can bump start the bike, just can't start it normal with electrical system.
But if the motor was hyrdrolocked, wouldn't it not even bump start? I can bump start the bike, just can't start it normal with electrical system.
Arent new batts supposed to read in the 13+ voltage range and not just 12.6?
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RE: Bike just clicks and wont turn over. Help
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Correct, new batt. could not start the bike. I really hope the battery is having problem holding charge during cranking cycle or something. Really hope it isn't the starter seeing how it's expensive to replace it.
Correct, new batt. could not start the bike. I really hope the battery is having problem holding charge during cranking cycle or something. Really hope it isn't the starter seeing how it's expensive to replace it.
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I didnt see where you said you could push start till now, but ya no hydrolock then. You should be reading around 13.2 volts or something but 12.6 should be enough to start it. Take a volt meter and see if you actually have the same voltage at the starter solenoid where it hooks up from the battery. Could be bad connections. If you do then I would suspect solenoid or starter.
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RE: Bike just clicks and wont turn over. Help
Starters do have moving parts, they do break. Were you with your friend when he last rode your bike? Were you with him the whole time? He could have cut in on and off, stalled it out, had to keep restarting it, etc.
A starter on any vehicle will heat up in no time. The more a starter (or any electrical part) heats up the more resistance there is to current flow which means the potential for more cranking and damage done since the device is still demanding current.
I would give the same advice as jonld did above.
A starter on any vehicle will heat up in no time. The more a starter (or any electrical part) heats up the more resistance there is to current flow which means the potential for more cranking and damage done since the device is still demanding current.
I would give the same advice as jonld did above.
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Hello
I got a 2002 F4i. It had been sitting outside for a week (cover on but it rained for a week straight), I let my buddy ride it around the parking lot a couple days ago and it started fine. Then when I went to go start it last night, it turned over twice, VERY WEAKLY. then all it did was click everytime I pushed the starter button. 'CLICK' then nothing. So assuming it is the battery, I went out and bought a new battery, checked it with AOUSA tester and it tested 12.8V. Installed it on the bike, turned over three times WEAK again and it just clicks. SoI push started the bike and got it to a shop for now, what could it be? They suspect starter could be bad, anyone have different opinons?
Hello
I got a 2002 F4i. It had been sitting outside for a week (cover on but it rained for a week straight), I let my buddy ride it around the parking lot a couple days ago and it started fine. Then when I went to go start it last night, it turned over twice, VERY WEAKLY. then all it did was click everytime I pushed the starter button. 'CLICK' then nothing. So assuming it is the battery, I went out and bought a new battery, checked it with AOUSA tester and it tested 12.8V. Installed it on the bike, turned over three times WEAK again and it just clicks. SoI push started the bike and got it to a shop for now, what could it be? They suspect starter could be bad, anyone have different opinons?
hope this helps....