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Kevin M:
The other day I noticed my 96' California 1100 wasn't too excited about starting, when I got home I left it in the driveway & came back out later to put it away, it wouldn't start at all. I'm just now getting around to fixing it. Today I went out, took the seat off to see if the positive or negative cable were just loose. When I grabbed the negative cable, the negative post just fell away from the top of the battery! I went to the store & bought a new lawn mower battery reconnected one negative cable to the negative post & three positive cables to the positive post. Put everything back together and...just clicks. I checked the starter & cleaned the connection, tightened everything and..no change. The battery I got is 235 CCA. Am I missing something? Any Ideas?

Kevin

Chuck in Indiana:


--- Quote ---reconnected one negative cable to the negative post & three positive cables to the positive post. P
--- End quote ---
Just a heads up. Always hook the positive cables up first. If you hook the negative up first, it's really easy to make sparks hooking up the others.  ;D Maybe your new battery needs charged?

Kiwi_Roy:
Monitor the Voltage on the battery terminals as it tries to start, connect your meter right to the battery terminals, not the wires.
That will tell you for sure if the battery is weak, the Voltage shouldn't drop below 10V while the starter is winding.

Kevin M:
I'm thinking more about this, is there more than just the starter cable going to the negative post of the battery? It seems like there should be a ground wire from the frame too. Any thoughts about this?

Thanks

Kiwi_Roy:
The cable on the negative should be a fat one, similar in size to the starter Positive.
It goes to the chassis, trace it there and clean that connection also.
Sometimes they have another Negative other times they just use the chassis for the return path.
Carl's drawing shows just one.
http://www.thisoldtractor.com/guzzi007/schematics/1996_California_1100i.gif.

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