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Had bad battery, swapped out, still won't turn over

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Old 04-07-2011 | 07:27 PM
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Default Had bad battery, swapped out, still won't turn over

So the battery that was in there was shot, or so I thought from what I could tell since it wouldn't even attempt to turn over at all. Swapped a new one in tonight and it cranks like there is nobodies busy BUT it will not turn over..........AT ALL.

It cranks, cranks and cranks but it won't do anything besides crank. Thoughts? I've checked, double checked and triple checked all the cables that I removed from the battery and surrounding wires on the rear fender in addition to other wires in the vicinity.

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Old 04-07-2011 | 07:34 PM
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To me cranking is when you hear the starter and motor turning but no exhaust tone. Then usually it starts and we call that running. Trying to crank it with very low voltage may have blown a fuse. I would have though you would have only two large wires going to the battery and maybe 2 small one for a charger. Hope you got them on correct side of battery. What was it doing last time original battery was good? How long ago?
 
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Old 04-07-2011 | 07:53 PM
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Ya there are on the right side and the right wires are connected to them.
 
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Old 04-07-2011 | 10:41 PM
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Thanks for the additional info. It seems to work for me that way
 
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