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Ratbuell
| Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 10:06 pm: |
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Guess the original battery in my 06 wasn't "that" dead after all. Replaced it a couple weeks ago, and I still get random trip odometer resets between rides. Today pushing it out of the garage, I noticed a couple of tach needle jumps as I turned the bars - bike off. Never skips while running. Guess I get to dive into the steering head bundle to find the broken wire...grrrr..... |
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Reepicheep
| Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 08:14 am: |
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It's a nice relaxing job Rat. Get a nice stool, take out a few screws, and put on some good music, you will find it in no time. |
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Ratbuell
| Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 09:20 am: |
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I'm not worried. The beer fridge is in arms reach of the Handy lift I just wonder how much longer my OEM battery could have gone. ![](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/clipart/banghead.gif) |
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Reepicheep
| Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 11:59 am: |
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I kept my old battery and cycled it through a bunch of battery conditioner (a better one) cycles until it was working fairly well again. Then I bought a 1978 KZ-400 in a bucket, ripped a bunch of parts off of it (or rather, didn't put them back in when I rebuilt it from pieces), and made a custom battery tray for the old Buell battery. It may be weak for a Uly, but it can spin that little 400cc parallel twin fast enough to put the bike in low earth orbit. You don't have an extra battery, you have a project waiting to happen. ![; )](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/clipart/winker.gif) |
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Etennuly
| Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 02:59 pm: |
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Oh you poor poor man! It is so obvious you've become totally devastated! I tell ya! Finally you got enough miles on it to need to fix something!!!![](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/clipart/dielaughing.gif) If you want to make it ride like new again replace the front isolator if you haven't done it yet. And lube those heim joints! |
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Big_island_rider
| Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 05:38 pm: |
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And add some flux capacitor fluid.![](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/clipart/crazy4.gif) |
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