so i went to jump my bike because it didnt start. This happened before so i knew what i was doing. However, when plugging the wires onto, the negative end touched some metal and now my bike is completely dead.

Is it just the battery that's fried? Or is it completely the circuitrythats f'd?
Please help!


pic of bike

 

What did you jump the bike with? If it was from a car that was running, you may have overloaded the system.

How old is the battery?

Have you had this problem occurring frequently?

 

If your battery isn't fried it arched start checking fuses you might have blown some.

 

i knew not to start the car. and this happened once before, so i wasn't too surprised to see this happen again. If a new battery doens't work, imma check fuses. and if that doesn't work, any ther suggestions?

Thanks for the input so far guys

 

BEFORE you replace your battery check for an in-line fuse somewhere on the left rear part of the subframe under the plastics... You can find it easily by following the positive line coming from the battery backwards and it should be obvious as to what it is. I believe it's like a green fuse and I fried my fuse like that once. They're super cheap and easy to fix. Get a new battery while you're at it after you fix this

 

sweet thanks. I can't tell you how bad if reaked out when i saw sparks and the bike doing nothing.

 

did you mean to say that the positive touched the metal? the negative wire touching the metal shouldn't have done anything as it's the ground... I accidently touched the positive to my ground when wiring in my new RR and wasn't thinking about disconnecting the battery... I was real confused until I realized the obvious which is I arc'd it and fried the in-line fuse

 

opps yea thats what i meant, but you get the idea. i'll check the fuse tomorrow when theres some light out

 

good luck man.... i blew a couple 100A fuses on the old car back in the day. i'll keep my fingers crossed for you n hope that's all it is. i dont wanna hafta hear about you having to re-wire the whole damn bike.

 

sweeeeet checked the inline fuse and its blown. so i need to go buy a new fuse. w00t

 

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that SHOULD BE IT@!

 

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good to hear! now go do it on a car and watch the excellent display of pyrotechnics!

 

glad to hear. Iwas 99.99% sure that was the problem. You'll get absolutely nothing if it's dead and be completely fucked until you realize what happened. I think $2 got me like 4 or 5 new fuses