Bike won't act right!

Not sure whats wrong with my bike, but something is wrong cause I
m not riding it.

I hear a pop from the spot in the picture sometimes when I try to start it, rendering it useless and have to wiggle the area for it to get power.



Added a video to show you what I see and hear when I try to start it.
Couldn't figure out how to embed the video, but here's the link!

http://s164.photobucket.com/albums/u32/ ... ction=view¤t=MVI_0425.mp4

 

disconnect the wires from the solenoid that you're showing us, remove it, CLEAN all terminals and connectors, washers and nuts til they are CLEAN and SHINEY. You're showing us a LOT of corrosion and oxidation there. With all that in there, the current can't get through and the pop is the current trying to arc across the gap. The arc causes a little bit of deposition which will block the current, and the process starts all over again after you wiggle the wires.

Dave F

 

Yeah that.

BUT, disconnect the (-) battery terminal before you start. Otherwise you could release the smoke from the wires which is a very bad thing.

 

Just watched your video. Should start way easier than that too.... Although it could be related.

 

Then coat everything quite liberally with Dielectric grease or electric silicone, it'll keep all that cleaning from corroding again.

 

Good advice so far, and the red lead onto the solenoid looks like it may be burnt under the black insulation, you will want to look under that insulation.

 

Burnt? Look closely at the ends of the strands of wire itself (red wire) where it comes up out of the insulation just below the retaining nut.

IT'S GREEN!

That red wire is corroded to beat the band, inside its insulation where it's crimped to its terminal. You'll probably need to replace the terminal on the red wire.

**EDIT** I don't like the looks of the strands in the big "+" battery cable there either; they're likewise corroded GREEN up by the terminal. It would pay to pull, clean and inspect the main power cable from the battery to the solenoid there; if the green corrosion goes all the way through the cable, a new cable would be in order.

 

Thank for all the help from EVERYONE!

This was my bike yesterday:
http://youtu.be/PY9HeWNh3yI

The Bike is better, but still unable to ride.

So I took every ones advice and ended up just taking everything out and going at every piece of metal I could shine.

Which seemed to work as the bike starts and cranks... but it doesn't stay started.

This is what it's doing today:
http://youtu.be/L2KPW0BMOzg

 

Did you put a new terminal on the red wire at the solenoid, and inspect the crispy green battery cable like I suggested?

 

Ok this is weird, I did check the cable for green all the way through and there wasn't one and I put new terminal on also.

But this is where I'm confused, because I switched the cables... Where the 2 cable are on the right, I put them on the left and the left on the right and thats the video of my bike actually starting to idle.

But then I seen my mistake, put the cables back the way they were and now it doesnt start to idle anymore

 

I wasn't paying attention and in the second video you can see it starts but I noticed after I came back to the thread, that I had accidently switch where the wires were. So I immediately switched them even though the bike started up ok, but now neither the headlight or the bike starts as well as it did before?

 

Check your fuses