what's going on guys this is biker dave with the honda gold wing 1800.
uh if you want to reset the main computer of your bike uh if you've got maybe tms tpms sensor issues
or just funky issues and you want to reset the computer basically rebooting it
here's what you do you know take your left cover off to expose the battery
you have to open your uh your left saddle bag so that you can pull this cover off you know this guy
here pull the cover off no tools are required then disconnect the negative battery cable
okay completely disconnect it and get a rag or something to cover
the negative battery post and you'll just need a 10 millimeter socket or
wrench of some sort just to disconnect the negative right here
i've got a battery tender adapter there so that's what that one is
and just disconnect it completely
now take you uh you know a rag or something to cover that battery post so there's no chance
for the negative to touch it then i need to expose the positive and that's just this little
this little pin down here just pull this off
and feed this off here there's your positive now what we're going to do
make sure like i said make sure that the negative post of the battery is
cannot be touched by accident we're going to jump the negative that's disconnected over to
the positive that's still connected nothing's going to happen just connect it right there
it's a good time to inspect your battery terminals too
in fact this one has a little bit of corrosion on it there so it's a good time to clean that off
i think we'll go ahead and do that while we're here
you see a little bit of corrosion build up
if you can see that right there
now if you see that in there see it's got a little bit of corrosion
building up on there that's not good and it happens to some batteries so
let's get all that corrosion off of there so first you can scrub the cable itself
anyway that's not what the purpose of this video was but it just happens to be there so
we'll take care of it real quick i take a uh like a middle metal bristle brush
like this right here you should have an assortment of these anyway in your in your toolbox and just
scrub this crap off of here all right and um you know use your metal brush to clean off
your battery cable ends on both the positive and negative just go ahead and clean them off
real quick make sure that they're nice and shiny under there you can also take some dielectric
spray cleaner get this in any you know auto parts store whatever
and just clean off the battery posts and and cable ends you know just clean them get all
any kind of corrosion or rust or build up anything off of there this is good to do
on any vehicle from time to time you know just make sure there's nothing on there
you can also purchase a sort of lubricant that'll help that corrosion return again anyway let's
go back to what we're doing so let's cover the post here still need to clean that a little bit
all right we're putting our positive back on there make sure it's good and snug okay now
back to what we're doing now we're going to jump this disconnected negative over to the positive
okay
nothing's gonna happen you know it's not gonna zap you or anything so just make
sure it gets a good grip either on this this bolt
like so okay so once again the negative is separated and we're going to leave it like this
for about 10 minutes and that will quickly drain out the capacitors relating to your
bike's computer you do this the same thing for uh for modern cars also if you're trying to reset the
computer basically you know if you've got just if you've either done a major tune-up or any other
major maintenance involving uh spark plugs you know anything relating to spark air fuel exhaust
o2 sensors fuel injectors things like that you know throttle bodies any kind of major
maintenance or cleaning or replacement of parts you should do this anyway no matter if it's car
bike whatever if it's you know electronic fuel injection this is a good thing to do
so anyway you let this sit for about 10 minutes that does it as quick as possible
and then we'll reconnect everything and we'll show you what to do from there it's really easy
all right it's been about 10 minutes and we've reconnected the battery down there back to
normal all right here's what you do we're just going to turn the key to the on position first
and let it sit for about a minute so here we go
you'll hear you know throttle body movement you'll hear some fuel injection movement
you'll just hear a few things moving around down there that's normal
your throttle body opening will recalibrate you know to a stock setting
and let's just let everything sit for about a minute all right it's been a minute so
make sure the bike's in neutral and go ahead and crank her up
all right now we're gonna let it idle for a few minutes actually you'll notice it's
changing idle a little bit what's going on is the throttle throttle body flap you know the butterfly
is adjusting a little bit here and there so you'll notice that the idle is not completely even just
yet and that's normal so we're going to let it do this for about five minutes or so so you make sure
that your garage door is open that you got proper ventilation and just let it idle for a few minutes
now while it's idling you know your uh your radio
settings are all going to be reset you know to default so you're going to have to reset your
channels and that sort of thing so it's a good time to do that while it's idling
now what you want to wait for is you notice the
coolant fan has just kicked on and operating temperature is where it should be
so that's been you know roughly five minutes of idling
now all you do is just go ride the bike normally you can go ride it for a good long ride but just
ride it kind of gently and normally you know don't really hammer on the throttle or anything
just just ride it easily and that'll also help the butterfly the throttle you know
just keep trimming and working itself perfectly and that's pretty much it
that's something you do to any motor vehicle especially with electronic you know fuel injection
and a computer and that sort of thing it's a common thing you can do to any vehicle really
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