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bike no longer starts
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:01 am
by shredex
very sad
everything seems to be working right too.
ill have to wait till after school to work on it
Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:33 am
by docrider
i wonder if the added electronics are draining the battery just enough to make it to weak to start?

Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:13 am
by shredex
Nothing I added is connected to the battery.
Amp is powered my a 9.6v battery that went to an RC car and the LEDs are powered by a 9v battery.
My battery seems a little low, but not so low that it wont start.
Im charging it now and Ill try it again once I get hoe and if that doesnt work then Im going to drain my fuel and replace the gas.
The gas in my tank has a blue tint to it. its weird. I dont know whats giving it the blue tint, but I dont think its good.
god

I wish I had the money for a new bike.
Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:26 am
by Dr Rockso
mine wouldn't start the other day because for the past few weeks i've been too busy to ride it . i ended up pulling the battery out to find that one of the cells was kinda low , so i put some destilled water in there , charged it up , and all is well now . these bikes are picky about power . when i would hit the starter it sounded fine for a while but it had just enough for the starter to sound ok , but not enough to start the bike . now that it's re-charged it fires right up . you might want to check that out .
Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:29 am
by megaloxana
Dr Rockso wrote:mine wouldn't start the other day because for the past few weeks i've been too busy to ride it . i ended up pulling the battery out to find that one of the cells was kinda low , so i put some destilled water in there , charged it up , and all is well now . these bikes are picky about power . when i would hit the starter it sounded fine for a while but it had just enough for the starter to sound ok , but not enough to start the bike . now that it's re-charged it fires right up . you might want to check that out .
yeah one thing is for sure...
If you own an fzr, you better own a battery charger
Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:47 pm
by shredex

, yup, I got home after having my battery charging all day and it fired right up and I drove off to work.
Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:10 pm
by YAM93
Shred- Be sure to take the battery out and check the water level in the cells anyway, if you left the battery charging all day you could have boiled some of the water off. Battery power will slope off quickly over the next couple weeks if that is the case. Happens a lot with new batteries also.
(some battery chargers automatically turn off once full charge is reached, so this may not affect you, but just to be on the safe side)
Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:54 am
by shredex
YAM93 wrote:Shred- Be sure to take the battery out and check the water level in the cells anyway, if you left the battery charging all day you could have boiled some of the water off. Battery power will slope off quickly over the next couple weeks if that is the case. Happens a lot with new batteries also.
(some battery chargers automatically turn off once full charge is reached, so this may not affect you, but just to be on the safe side)
i checked and all the levels are normal

Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:52 am
by docrider
just buy you a yuasa battery charger/maintainer it switches to storage once the battery is charged fully i use it on mine and its nice
Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:22 pm
by match417
shredex wrote:The gas in my tank has a blue tint to it
Thats perfectly normal, the gas is supposed to have a blue tint to it. If it's yellow/tan then it's old gas.
Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:07 am
by tommyj27
may want to check the electrical system per naeslas' flowchart. my FZR would do that when my VR was crapping itself. my battery was shot too, which didn't help much either (may want to run it by autozone for a load test).
Re: bike no longer starts
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:05 am
by docrider
glad to hear that it started after charging it if it keeps going dead it could be either a bad battery or your charging system or vr