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Greetings,
You didn't mention how old your existing battery is. If it's several years old, skip the next paragraph and read the one line below. BTW, even fairly new batteries can fail.
Bad news first. Your battery, if recently charged is only showing 11v, is toast. A fully charged battery will read above 13v. As far as jump starting, connect the black to a ground on the frame and then the red to the positive post on the bike battery. Then do the same on the car. Just don't have the car running when you do this as it's not necessary. Then start the bike. As long as you have the cables hooked up correctly, you won't damage your bike. Hook 'em up backwards and you'll be replacing a lot of stuff.:X
Personally, I'd just go get a new battery and save yourself grief down the road.
Hope you get up and running soon.
BTW, after you get it started, you really ought to consider replacing the timing belts A.S.A.P. if you can't verify how many miles/years they have on them. Do a search on timing belts and you can read why.
Regards,
Hobie
Greetings,
You didn't mention how old your existing battery is. If it's several years old, skip the next paragraph and read the one line below. BTW, even fairly new batteries can fail.
Bad news first. Your battery, if recently charged is only showing 11v, is toast. A fully charged battery will read above 13v. As far as jump starting, connect the black to a ground on the frame and then the red to the positive post on the bike battery. Then do the same on the car. Just don't have the car running when you do this as it's not necessary. Then start the bike. As long as you have the cables hooked up correctly, you won't damage your bike. Hook 'em up backwards and you'll be replacing a lot of stuff.:X
Personally, I'd just go get a new battery and save yourself grief down the road.
Hope you get up and running soon.
BTW, after you get it started, you really ought to consider replacing the timing belts A.S.A.P. if you can't verify how many miles/years they have on them. Do a search on timing belts and you can read why.
Regards,
Hobie
I'm happy you didn't have to pull the starter. As far as the timing belts, the symptom of a bad one is that when they break, you bend valves, break pistons, so on and so forth. They don't make any noise as they go bad, they just break. Boom, bye bye engine.
