I am a newbie to big dog bikes. I bought a 2006 K9. Bought a new Braille battery, and charged it. Installed it in bike and nothing. No lights, no attempt to turn over, nothing. Found the 40 amp Maxi fuse coming off of the positive battery terminal was blown. Replaced it and it blew immediately when I connected the negative terminal. Bought a meter tester and it shows 13.06 from the positive terminal. Previous/only owner took very good care of it. He had replaced the ECU already -- "got rid of the other piece of crap". I own an 02 Road King but have never had these types of problems. I have only got to ride it once (on the way home after I bought it). I knew there would be problems but not right out of the gate. Help!
K9 new battery dead dog
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Jersey Big Mike
100K mile club
You've got a short you need to locate.
Remove the battery from the bike
take a meter and check the resistance to ground of all the wires connected to the fuse
Chase the on that is 0 or near zero.
Remove the battery from the bike
take a meter and check the resistance to ground of all the wires connected to the fuse
Chase the on that is 0 or near zero.
Marky-Marc
Well-Known Member
Do what Big Mike said. It's tedious, but since you rode it home, something wiggled loose, or moved I suspect. Do it wire by wire and go from there. I would start with the Ground cable going to the starter...it can get frayed or loose, even if you think it's tight, make sure you check it with a wrench.
BadDawg Bill
Well-Known Member
2X. If you are blowing a 40 amp fuse then you have a MAJOR short. Check the voltage regulator and the starter. These are the only 2 areas where you have that sort of grounding. Also take the battery out and check the pos wires and neg wires for a bare spot. One other thing, are you sure you are not hooking a pos wire up to the neg side of the battery? Disconnect the neg wire(s) from the battery. Take a test light and hook it up to the pos side of the battery. Now touch the neg wires you are trying to put on. If they light up they are ground wires if not they are positive. Good luck.
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BadDawg Bill
Well-Known Member
2X. If you are blowing a 40 amp fuse then you have a MAJOR short. Check the voltage regulator and the starter. These are the only 2 areas where you have that sort of grounding. Also take the battery out and check the pos wires and neg wires for a bare spot. Good luck.
Also, are you hooking up a neg wire to the pos or a pos wire to the neg post on the battery? Disconnect the neg wires and pos wires from the battery. Put a test light on the pos post and touch each wire. If the light lights up it's a pos wire. If it doesn't it's neg. Good luck.
Hi, wife here. I am trying to relay your messages through the window to hubby in the driveway. Right now he sounds like the father on "The Christmas Story" down in basement with the furnace. I'm new to this meter thingy. So let me get this right. Put the red wire from meter thingy to red wire with fuse, then touch all black wires with the black wire meter thingy until something displays zero or near it? What setting do I make sure he has put the meter on? I am hopeful that I will get to ride with him on this bike sometime soon. Thanks for all the help you can give.
Mickeetwo
Guru
Check the voltage regulator. In 2005 and 2006 bigdog had a recall on some of the voltage regulators. Here is a link that explains what to look for and the part number that was bad http://www.bigdogbiker.com/forums/technical-bulletins-recalls/454-voltage-regulator-recall.html
Nukeranger
Nukeranger
It is very likely that it was something you did when you replaced the battery. You said everything was ok before and then you put a Braille in. I would highly suspect you hooked something up wrong. It happens. So, try the simple solution first. I am not saying something else isn't wrong. But, it is always suspicious when it starts out "I did something..........and now something is wrong". It happens to everybody at some point.
BWG56
Guru
:iagree:True dat
Mickeetwo
Guru
:iagree: Start with the simple stuff first
BadDawg Bill
Well-Known Member
Sorry for the double post but as said above in a couple of posts you put in a new battery and then had problems so I'll bet you are trying to hook up the battery wires wrong.
BadDawg Bill
Well-Known Member
I'd check the black wire from the VR to the battery first to see if it's grounding out. If not a new VR isn't much.
hey I really appreciate everyone's help with the dead dog. first we took off the wire to the starter and tried the fuse and it would still blow, so we put the wire back on the starter and disconnected the voltage reg. put fuse in and it did not blow. we took the old voltage regulator off and found out it was one that should of been replaced under the recall(2005), so i am thinking it could be a bad one. we have checked wires until now all we see is wires. i am going to try and find another one and put it on and pray. after we unplugged the vr everything else worked except the low beam on the light. did not try to start it. any more advice would be greatly appreciated. we couldn't have gotten this far without y'all:bang:.
Marky-Marc
Well-Known Member
On your low beam, before you do anything else, since you had a blown fuse...try a new bulb first.....but first, get the bike running again.....
Ok guys, got new voltage regulator in. going to put it on this weekend and see what happens. traced the wires from old reg and they all looked good. since it blew the main fuse maybe it stopped anything else from messing up. when i started with the new battery it did not blow a fuse. it had to happen during the night with the trickle charger on it. i believe it was going bad in the first place. i drove it one hour and it would not start back up. i think it was killing the old battery, at least i hope that is the case. i am just ready to ride the dog. it sucks knowing you just bought one and can't go. thanks fellows ya'll are good people.
