gs500F Flickering Gauages, and Dies

[sexdwarf]

Hi, I'm in a real pickle, and am royally pissed off to boot. Long story short, I got my 04 gs500F back from repo yesterday.

Aside from being trashed cosmetically, like my friend's R6 also there, it wouldn't turnover initially, cause they left the key in, and, 'on' (lots of electrolytic corrosion). Totally dead, no neutral light, no nothing.
So we bump started it twice, warmed it up and the gauges were flickering and the tach didn't move, save for a few jumps to the accurate RPMs. So we, intelligently (right) take off and decide to get on the road as soon as possible to charge the battery. I make it the @30 miles home on the freeway and just coming off the offramp, down shifting to 2nd, and it dies. Won't bump start again.
I waited for AAA and they jumped it, and it seemed to work, gauges still flickering though, I take off and get the to edge of the parking lot, and it dies, again, while running in 1st, holding the clutch.

I got it towed home, and the tow guy said his Harley had the same problems, and it was the alternator. Could it be a generator problem?
I'm completely at a loss here unfortunately.

Any and all help is appreciated.

[starwalt]

Definitely electrical in nature.
We will assume that all was well prior to your reposession.
(The reasons for such an action is not our business --    )

Check or correct the following in order:

• Battery fluid level
• All battery connections
• All electrical connections

Your tach is not working correctly because it is electric on 03+ models.

It is unlikely that your alternator/generator is bad unless it has been layed down hard on the left side engine cover.

If none of the above is a problem, try charging the battery with a battery tender or another battery charger that uses 2A or less for charge current. 12 to 18 hours should do it fine.


Oh, it does have fuel and the fuel selector is not between states is it?

Was this bike "stored" outside by the repo man? 

Probably in a fenced area with big mean dogs no less? 

[sexdwarf]

Yeah, everything was pretty cool beforehand. I actually had just got it back from a tune up a week before I lost it.

I checked the battery, and it is at the same level it was at when I put it in the battery, and put the battery in the bike, 3 weeks before I lost it.
Checked the connections, cleaned em (cherrycoke). Checked all the connections I could find, and they were good.

I'm gonna take the battery in to the shop I used to work at and put on their tender tomorrow. I'm keeping my fingers crossed till it starts up no problem.


Oh, short reason it was repoed . . .
My good friend who helped me get the bike (cosigner) didn't get the registration for too long, and then, I don't know, got embarrassed he'd taken so long he didn't answer my calls and didn't see me for a long time till they took them.
So, doubly lame for me.