What have I done?

Hi all. Looking for some advice here. Bear in mind I know very little
about bike mechanics / electrical systems.

Anyway, I replaced the alternator cover on my 94 YZF600R. This was
pretty straightforward I thought. Disconnected battery, unbolted
cover, removed the stator from the old cover, bolted it into the new
cover and reconnected everything, and bolted the new cover on.

When I put it all back together and pushed the starter, just get
*click*. Sounds kind of like a spark but I'm not sure. All the lights
and the fuel pump come on. I thought maybe the battery was low after
sitting there for a few weeks so I charged it, no change.

Suggestions please?

Thanks.

 

Starter Solenoid?

Make a direct connection to the starter motor and see if she spins up while
you're at it.

 

loose battery connection?

 

would have been cheaper and less hassle to get shop to fix it wouldnt
it?

 

could be dirty also

 

look for where it's not earthing
you may have undone an earth connection somewhere.

 

In hindsight.. yeah

But barring whatever I've done wrong.. this should have been a simple
job.

 

Thanks I'll see what I can find.

 

Thanks you three.. I'll clean the terminals / leads and make sure
they're secure. Also I'm gonna borrow a multimeter and make sure the
battery didn't just fail coincedentally / as a result of what I did..

 

Bollocks. You might actually learn something this way.
God forbid.

-----sharks

 

Where's your spirit of adventure; self-sufficiency; daring;
do-it-yourself-i'm-an-aussie-bloke-and-i-don't-need-no-steeking-help-from-anybody-else
attitude???

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Cheers

PeterC [aka MildThing]
'81 Suzuki GS450-s
'87 BMW K100RT

www.dmcsc.org.au

 

Steeking?


BTH

 

But you'd also cut yourself off from the possibility of subsequently
arseaching about poor service, overcharging, lengthy delays, your bike not
feeling or running any better than it was before the service...

....why act when it's so much easier to complain?

An occupier of one of the lower rungs on the cranial ladder; the trained
person who observes a partial balls-up someone made of their first attempt
at a foray into the observer's area of expertise and comments,

"Better not try that again... you're no good at it."

 

to steek
steeker, a person judged competent to steek
as in
i-don't-need-no-steeking-help-from-anybody-else

 

Eek!

Steenking - as in 'stinking' with a Mexican accent.

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Cheers

PeterC [aka MildThing]
'81 Suzuki GS450-s
'87 BMW K100RT

www.dmcsc.org.au

 

But you'd also cut yourself off from the possibility of subsequently

Ya see IK agrees with me...

 

Lost that yrs ago, he now has to do it anyway!

 

Stephen King?


BTH

 

Watching the rehash of "Dawn of the Dead" at the movies the other day, the
fidgety part of my brain went off and ran through this scenario of me and
bunch of other Ausmoteans (Sharkey was there, TB, JL-not you, the other one,
sorry, Marty, Al...) being stuck in the movie. Biggus was there, too, and
about a quarter of the way in, his constant bally-hooing made me snap and
hoik him off the roof of the shopping centre into the sea of zombies below
because he was being bad for morale... and nobody tried to stop me.

I like the guy, and I think I've got something of an idea of what he's going
through with the mangled limbs and all, but, fak me dead, is he ever an
oppressively miserable bastard.

I thought of him a few times watching Aliens the other week, too... it
usually coincided with Hudson's lapses into "We're all gonna die"-ism.

 

Must have been a mistake ...

Cheers
Goaty