welcome back everybody I am excited today we're going to be putting that new
battery in my ultra classic
this is very simple first thing needs to be done is obviously your seat has to come off there's one screw on the back for the
seat you're gonna unscrew that screw in the
back section and the whole thing comes up a long screwdriver usually is helpful
in this situation
Battery sits right here on the ultra classic almost most bikes the
battery sits right underneath the the seat we're gonna go ahead and take off
the negative cable first which is the black cable usually on these bikes you'll
see a negative sign the positive sign is usually covered in red or it's a red cable
so negative first that way we don't spark the battery or whatnot alright this
one happens to be a 10 millimeter incase you're wondering what size you need so
you just work that out it is a tight space so kind of difficult to get in
there really alright so your battery is disconnected take that screw put it
aside make sure the negative terminal is out
of the way and ain't hitting anything alright so now let's take the positive out same
thing ten millimeter wrench now on some bikes you got extra wires
usually because people will add things to the bike or whatnot so just try to
remember those wires if you have any extra wires other than the cable so here
we got two extra wires so just got to make sure we plug that back in
when we put the new battery on and last but not least we got to take off the mount of
the battery holding bracket now it's just a matter of pulling this battery right
out of there it can be tricky hard to get to and whatnot oh yeah their we go
you take your new battery goes right into the tray where the other one was
and it should fit exactly way that one did boom nice what's nice about this
barrage there's no nuts in here it's all pretty much
it's got threads all in this you don't have to worry about messing with nuts
all right now I gotta get all these wires back in the way we had them
you just put the positive back on snug it up don't over tighten these you can
strip them you don't want to go like Hercule on this shit
what I'd like to do because this cover is really old you know being a 2004
bike I put a zip tie on this cover just to hold it in place here and over that
just in case you don't have to but I kind of like to I like to know that the
cover stays on that on there I should say I'm going to put the negative cable
back on
you want to make sure you clean your terminals if they're not clean or if
they need to be cleaned you should take a wire brush and just wire brush the
terminal just to clean it up if you need to clean it off make sure you get a good
connection
and just snug again don't over-tighten these you don't want to strip out the
terminal you gonna put the bracket back on the battery and put the screwing in
turn it down make sure the battery's good it's locked in place ain't gonna go
anywhere and last but not least start it up see if she'll crank over
(Starting the motorcycle up)
and that's how you replace a battery on a 2004 Harley Davidson Ultra Classic
real simple negative first positive second take off the bracket pull the battery out put it back in positive first negative second bracket back on
start her up see if she runs
you all take care God bless America God bless each and everyone of you bye bye