ok guys and Gals i need ure help.My GS wont start she worked fine yesterday and wont start.When i press the starter and does click!click!click! Click!
If i push the bike on compression and start it by releasing the clutch it start on first try and i can run as long as i want until the next start up.
But As soon as i try the electric starter it does the clicking again.
I check the battery with a meter and it gives out 12.72 volts.
blinkers, horn,and dash lights work....
Any ideas could be the battery? whats the right voltage too be able to start the bike?
Thanks for any help u can give me.
Most likely the battery is a little drained. It has enough juice to power the lights, etc, but not enough to start. Check the battery juice level and top it up if needed. The voltage seems reasonable, but it doesn't mean it has enough energy for a big current to start.
Cheers,
e.
It could just be the starter. If it was the battery it would probably still try to turn the motor some. Mine was all but drained the other day and it would still try to crank the motor until it was pretty much dead, and then it wouldn't jumpstart to save its life. Not too long after everything died, lights and all.
John
The clicks come from the starter relay. The battery has enough juice to flip the relay switch, but not enough to turn over the much-more-current-hungry starter motor.
If you hooked jumper cables between your bike battery and a car battery, I bet the starter motor would fire the the bike right up.
So yeah, charge the battery.