The electrical Gremlin is attacking me!

cdogg556

Guru
Well you had to know something was brewing. If it weren't for you're bike John this forum would be out of business. Good luck. I am sure you will get this worked out too.

What do you think Bill will say???
Yea Frank, I feel the same damn way! Lol! And you know Bill is gonna tell me to dump all that shit and go "OLD SCHOOL WIRING!"
 

Th3InfamousI

Administrator
Staff member
My bets on a bad connection/bad battery. The test leads making contact to the +/- on the battery shouldn't change anything.

While you shipped the EHC off go get the battery load tested at AutoZone for free. 8 months don't mean shit, I bought a battery in February and it went South in April

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cdogg556

Guru
My bets on a bad connection/bad battery. The test leads making contact to the +/- on the battery shouldn't change anything.

While you shipped the EHC off go get the battery load tested at AutoZone for free. 8 months don't mean shit, I bought a battery in February and it went South in April

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Will do Eric!
Good luck my friend, you deserve a break soon:chopper: I hope that fixes ya up
Thanks Ker!
 

francoblay1

The Spaniard
I had a friend with a Viper and it kept acting up and running rough, sometimes it wouldn't start, the dealer told him to disconnect the battery cables from the battery and hold both cables to the frame and it would dump the cookies stored in the computer. By damn it worked, car ran fine after that, so it seemed that it was storing too many different codes and this reset it, so to speak.
I wonder if that would be possible with the EHC? or is it not that sophisticated.
Something like that is done with laptops.... take the battery out and hold the Power button for 10-15 seconds.... it also clrears the gremlins!
 

BWG56

Guru
My bets on a bad connection/bad battery. The test leads making contact to the +/- on the battery shouldn't change anything.

While you shipped the EHC off go get the battery load tested at AutoZone for free. 8 months don't mean shit, I bought a battery in February and it went South in April

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I had a 3 year old battery load test the same as a new one, but it would not spin the dog over, these battery's are all over the place
 

cdogg556

Guru
I'm worried about that happening here too. A lot of these battery posts are pretty soft and its difficult to get a good connection

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Is there any batteries that have some type of better connections? Or is there something we can do to make it better?
 

BWG56

Guru
Is there any batteries that have some type of better connections? Or is there something we can do to make it better?
I used a little longer screws to catch more threads, but clean connections are the important thing, and it is possible to get a bad new battery. Especially with the AGM's, you don't know if its a year or 2 old when you buy it.
 

cdogg556

Guru
I used a little longer screws to catch more threads, but clean connections are the important thing, and it is possible to get a bad new battery. Especially with the AGM's, you don't know if its a year or 2 old when you buy it.
It does seem as if the bolts they give you with the battery are just a little short, maybe it would be ok if you only had one wire connected to it!
 

BWG56

Guru
The Harley battery's are flush to the sides, but I have purchased others in the past that are recessed from the edge and those come with brass spacers to space the terminals out flush with the side of the battery.
 
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