Was winterizing my 2013 RK. Decided to leave the battery in so I put a battery tender on it. Connected everything, put the seat back on, hooked up the tender. Did not get oil in the cylinders at the time so yesterday I went out the complete the job but when I pushed in the RUN button nothing happens. The battery seems to be fully charged as all the lights come on when I turn the switch on the tank. Any ideas? Did I forget to connect something? Fuse?

 

Ignition on..... Run/Stop switch to run.... press start button. That should do it.

 

That is what I do but nothing happens.

 

Did you have your FOB with you? (Assume you have security) does FOB battery need to be changed?

 

hmmm.

with bike in N, you can run a jumper wire from the battery to the solenoid and it should crank over ( pull the green wire off the solenoid- use a jumper with a terminal crimped on at the solenoid...touch to battery +.
that removes the kill switch, relay and any safety switches ( clutch, jiffy if equipped)

mike

 

Bike in neutral, clutch pulled in?

 

Try starting with with clutch lever pulled in, this bypasses the neutral safety switch. Shift into a few gears then shift back to neutral. Try to start then. I have had the neutral switch stick before.

 

Nothings going to happen til you hit the start button..

 

Look at what you did to install the tender pigtail. Usually that is where the problems are when everything worked fine before the owner put hands on.

 

Here's to hoping you didn't hook it up backwards and burn up an expensive battery!





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