"WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR MOTORCYCLE TODAY"

[oldironnow]

[oldironnow]

I was surprised how clean it looked inside.




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[oldironnow]

Also, Monday, attended to the Buell.
A random reluctant start with compression stroke kickback and sometimes enough draw on the battery to reset the trip meters (deep breath) had become an odd shutdown and several cyclings of the dash (ecm) self-check process.

Thinking it was the old battery, i got ready to pull it.
But the positive cable was slightly loose on the post.
There were two solid rings of carbon that needed cleaning.




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[oldironnow]

[motogrady]

Didn’t lose a pushpin.  
The effin clutch rod was sticking out of the case.
Thought it was a dowel to line up the cover. 😬

[motogrady]

oldironnow wrote

You can see it has been moving.

[hacksaw]

red ground?????


oh that's the battery? weird side post?

[motogrady]

On the Gs450.
Clutch back together.

Electric’s, pretty much all day and it’s still messing with me. 😕

[oldironnow]

hacksaw wrote

red ground?????


oh that's the battery? weird side post?

On a Buell CityX, the battery is mounted back down between the tail section rails.

I think it's a generic Sportster battery. There's some kind of memory that the HD dealer said they didn't have a Buell battery, but the number matched up with something on their shelf.

[hacksaw]

Must be. It looks like the post is off to the side of the battery . I guess it’s not .
Sportster and fxe batteries were the same for decades.

[oldironnow]

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[oldironnow]

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