By Adrian - Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:51 pm
- Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:51 pm
#101839
Beezabryan's point about the battery is worth investigating. For the E/S to work well, it needs a REALLY healthy battery. What you can get is a situation where the battery has partly degraded, it will hold enough charge for you to kick start the bike successfully and power all the other electrics satisfactorily, at least with the engine running, but nothing doing when you press the starter button.
Both the OEM lead acid battery and the one I replaced it with ended up in this state. I finally prized my wallet open far enough for a Motobatt MBTX14AU AGM battery, what a difference that made.
As for the ignition switch flicker, you've either got an intermittent contact or an intermittent earth, if it's not the switch itself, try an extra earth from the battery straight to the gearbox. ISTRC the gearbox shell is powder coated, might be worth scraping some of that off.
As the last Electra-X models imported into the UK were made as long ago as 2007, I'd also be thinking about a replacement reg/rectifier at some stage.
A.
Both the OEM lead acid battery and the one I replaced it with ended up in this state. I finally prized my wallet open far enough for a Motobatt MBTX14AU AGM battery, what a difference that made.
As for the ignition switch flicker, you've either got an intermittent contact or an intermittent earth, if it's not the switch itself, try an extra earth from the battery straight to the gearbox. ISTRC the gearbox shell is powder coated, might be worth scraping some of that off.
As the last Electra-X models imported into the UK were made as long ago as 2007, I'd also be thinking about a replacement reg/rectifier at some stage.
A.