Leave Battery "a" in place and step back from the tools
This is what i have done.
All by myself - i didn't even need telling!
~~~
*good boy pats self on head and exits*
.... but a new battery and perhaps even a starter motor is on the cards.
Leave Battery "a" in place and step back from the tools
Got the batteries checked. By an adult. In a battery shop.
Battery A. the 'good' one: cranking power = 230 (alleged to be 300 when new.)
Battery B. the 'spare' (which of course / murphys law* was the one in the Bike when i did all the ahem, diagnosis) .... cranking power = 130!
obviously this only confused matters.
Nipped home and put the 'good' one on the Bike, fired Her up and She started first go.
Starter seemed (?) to turn easier.
Now, i could
1./ leave it and hope or
2./ Buy the shop suggested new all-singing-and-dancing Gel Battery which according to his little book of battery specs is the recommended one for my Bike; 30ah / 230cranking power.
Questions for the collective;
I thought that 24ah was the "recommended" one for Guzzis? - i've used 30ah car batteries for years on this Bike on the basis that bigger was better.
Is this false thinking as, given how much town riding and short distances i use the Bike for it would last longer between the inevitable charges i have to give it as it discharges more than charges (only 3 miles to work each way).
Is the reverse true - i.e; a 24ah would be more likely to get a chance to charge fully and thus provide more cranking power?
p.s: i can get a gel battery for about €80
* murphy was a b*stard!
Hmm,Don't bother with a gel battery motobatt battery and charger were rubbish. ....
I've had x7 hinckley triumphs all faultless
x2 Guzzis. .....I shall not buy another ( same story for rubbish electrics on ducati x2)
Hmm,
the more i think about a gel replacement the more i think it's pointless.
The existing 'good' battery put out 300 cranking power when new / as it is, at a year old puts out a tested 260 cranking power.
The gel replacement would put out 230 cranking power. When it's brand new . That is the precise amount i'm told is needed. So, when it's getting on a bit - what would it put out then?
Dont think i'll bother so.
As for Guzzis rubbish electrics,
yeah, i'm crap with electrics, should have seen me fitting the Dyna ignition...
... actually it was dead easy.
But the jury is out as to whether i should keep this Bike. I'm still thinking about it...
... 18 years after i bought it.
Og,
That commutator, although it has no crud between the segments to hold off the brushes, does not look well.
I/we in the trade used to mount them in a lathe and carefully dress the surface flat and fit new brushes if there was enough meat left so to do. Usually in the "cant afford it/can't get one" scenario as a last resort.
If you have a local motor rewinder/engineering shop to do it for you it might be worth a punt but its not a cure - all you're doing is putting off the inevitable.
Fluff.