OK, next question: is there any love for jap batteries, specifically this Yuasa:

http://www.batterymart.com/p-Big-Cra...6-Battery.html

ETX16 @ $86, free shipping, 19 amp/hours, 325 cold-crank amps

Cheers !

 

That link goes to a US made battery, not a Japanese one! Nothing wrong with Yuasa, but they make a wide variety of types, from cheap acid filled ones through to top quality, with differing costs for each. I would only buy their better grade ones.

 

Ive had really good luck with yuasa batteries. Id buy their agm one

make sure to check all of your battery connections, not just the ones at the battery.

 

Thanks - it's cool that I linked the wrong battery 'cause I'd like to give the made in U.S.A. item a try. (Can hardly find anything not made in china any more and I'm sick and tired of it !)

oh_yeah

 

Just wanted to add that I have bump started my 09 nightster multiple times because I'm an idiot and like to leave my key on. Click it into 5th gear and try to find a slight downhill....running start and it fires no problem. Sometimes you have to do what you got to do!

 

If that's the case, you remembered you left it on and turned it off before the battery went dead. You can't bump start a FI bike that actually has a dead battery, because there's no juice left to power the fuel pump.

 

I had to jump an EFI Road King.
Battery was strong enough to cycle the fuel pump and lights but not enough juice to turn the starter (click click).
Car OFF, positive to starter on bike, negative to frame and bike was started.
If battery is 100% dead and can not run the pump then a no go situation would be likely.
Seems like 4.5 to 5 years is the limit even with a tender on my bike.

 

i think that depends on the size of the hill, maybe one of thses days i'll toss a dead batt in my bike and try it.