| Author | Message | ||
     Phatkidwit1eye |
My Dad forgot to take the battery out of his bike and well...it's now dead. I assume the battery is under the seat but how do I get to it? Do I have to take off the seat and the top hard bag to get to the battery? I pulled off the side cover but I didn't see any way to get the battery from there. Looks like a PIA to get the battery out. Wish it was as easy as pulling my X1's battery out. TIA.........Phat | ||
| Dale |
One screw in back of seat if 97 or newer. Use long phillips screw driver. Leave the tour pack on. Open lid to make it easier to get to screw. | ||
| Road_thing |
I'm assuming we're talking about an Electra Glide, here, not a Buick Electra... I'm not sure about the top case, but probably it has to come off to get the seat off. And the seat definitely has to come off to get at the battery. rt | ||
| Phatkidwit1eye |
Cool, Thank you very much ...... I didn't even think about lifting the tour pack lid and going in that way. Just finished up putting the battery on my tender. Thanks Phat..... | ||
| Krassh |
My '92 Glide's battery is under the right side cover behind the side bag. Also my seat comes off without removing the tour pak. There is a screw in the rear of the seat. Unless they made some serious design changes in the later bikes there is no room under the seat for anything. | ||
| Djkaplan |
I just recently helped a stranded guy with a dead battery who had a 2000 FLH (may have been a Heritage, though, I can't remember). The battery was under the seat and need a large torx bit to remove a restraining bracket. I didn't have my torx bits, but we were able to remove the fastener with my trusty Visegrips. | ||
| Phatkidwit1eye |
Funny you brought that up about the torx bits. I have bought just about every kind and size of Allen wrench I could find for my X1. When I finally started looking at my dads bike it looks like they used torx bits all over the bike. I had bought a few torx bits to take off my derby cover, luckily I had one large enough for the bracket. I guess it's just another excuse to buy more tools. | ||
| Koz5150 |
Try finding the Torx bit for the rear isolators on the X1. I think it is a t-60 or t-65. All I know is I went all over town trying to find one. | ||
| Phatkidwit1eye |
I hope I never have to mess with that. Around here it took me forever just to find the right size drill bit, so I could do the adjustment with the detent plate. | ||
| Newfie_buell |
Why did you need a drill bit to adjust the detent plate? When I switched to the new style it was just a simple bolt on? | ||
| Phatkidwit1eye |
It's been a while since I pulled out the tranny and installed the Baker kit after my shift pins pushed out. I used it When I had to adjust the shifter thingy(where did I put my service book?lol) by putting a drill bit into the small hole on the detent plate. | ||
| Phatkidwit1eye |
Found my Manual...I needed a number 32 drill bit so I could adjust the shifter pawl correctly. I had no real clue what I was doing at the time so I just followed the manual to the "T" |
