Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com.
Today we're working on our 2007 Suzuki GSX-R1000.
What are we doing with it?
Well, today we're going to diagnose a no-start condition.
So you turn on the key, I can hear the fuel pump charging up, push the button, nothing
happens.
So, let me go grab a couple of tools, we'll get the seat out of the way, see if we can
figure out what's going on.
Alright this is going to be a skill level one so it's really not going to be that tough.
Now what kind of tools are we going to need to get into this?
Well you need a couple of different ratchets.
A 3/8ths and a quarter inch.
gonna need a 4 mm Allen, a 10mm socket, a decent Phillips head screwdriver, and a soft-blow
hammer.
Now the other things you're going to need to invest in is to at least get a decent volt
ohm meter so you can get an accurate reading as to what the battery is doing as far as
voltage goes.
If we want to take a little bit deeper dive, well you might want to invest in a battery
tester.
What this actually does is it tests the battery's condition based on what type of battery it
is and what size the battery is that's in your machine.
Other than that if you would reference our exploded diagrams that'll tell you a couple
of points that you'll need to get to to remove the seat.
Pretty simple to do but those diagrams really give you an accurate picture of where to go.
So, once you've got your tools together, we can go over to the machine and I can show
you how to get it done.
Alright, let's grab our tester and see what kind of voltage we're getting out of this
battery.
Just put it to voltage DC.
Let's just do a static check with the machine off.
Alright 11.62.
That's about a volt less than it should be.
Let's see-- yeah just flipping it on drops it down to nine volts.
So this isn't looking very promising.
Hit our starter.
Yeah, it's only ramping up to about 10.
That's not even enough to flip it over.
Alright, let's dig a little bit further.
What we're going to do is disconnect it from the machine and actually we're going to be
hooking up a Yuasa battery tester and see what's going on in there.
Alright, it also agrees that there's 11.57 volts and this battery type is an AGM, and
it is going to be a 12 amp power.
Let's see what she comes up with.
And it's saying bad and replace.
So this one is definitely done.
Not a real shocker, we pretty much saw that coming.
So here's what we need to do: go ahead and pull this battery out, take it to a recycler.
I'm going to go get a new one off the shelf, get it serviced up, get it charged, and get
it back in the machine and see where we end up.
Alright, here's our new battery.
This is the electrolyte that needs to go in it.
Get this cover pulled off.
The way you do this is this cover right here comes off but don't throw it away, because
once we get it filled up and charged it will actually go in here and we'll push it down
into place and that'll seal the battery up.
So, take this, just push straight down.
What it's doing now is it's drawing in the electrolyte and it's actually filling up the
different sections-- which I believe there are six in here-- and getting absorbed in
that glass mat.
That'll charge the different cells that are in this battery.
So that'll take a few minutes.
Don't rush it.
Don't poke holes in it to make it go in there faster, because the glass mat will only absorb
fluid at a certain rate.
So let it go all the way in, let the battery sit for another 10 to 15 minutes, then we
can put a charge on it.
Alright, we've got our electrolyte in there, it's set for a while.
Let's go ahead and hook up our charger.
And this is actually a smart charger.
Do yourself a favor: don't use one of those just transformer-based ones like they've sold
at Sears for the last 40 years-- because they can't modulate or take into account the ramp
of the battery actually charging and you can actually damage your battery by overcharging
it.
So, you want to get a good charger to do this.
Alright, we're going to flip this on.
Shows that we're charging, and it'll actually light up that green one when we're finished.
How long is that going to take?
For this size battery, an hour and a half or two hours.
I guess we'll see.
So, head off, do something else, don't try to rush this, don't try to cut it short.
Let it completely charge the battery then we'll get it back in the machine and see what
we see.
Alright, our charging sequence is complete.
Now we want to go ahead and seal this one up.
And just for kicks, let's test it.
13.07 volts.
Battery type: 12 amp power.
Charge state: 98 percent.
Battery health 105.
I don't think we can get much better than that.
Alright, so she's good to go.
Let's get her in the machine and see what happens next.
Got our terminal threads in.
Let's go ahead and do the positive first.
Then our negative.
This particular one has 8 mm bolts on it.
Good to go.
So, let's flip it on and see what we got.
Fuel pump's priming up.
That's good.
Got our run switch.
Clutch pulled in, so let's see what happens.
Well alright, at least she starts, although that did sound pretty rough so I think we've
still go some more work to do on this particular engine.
Alright well, if you need any of the parts that we used, why don't you come see us at
partzilla.com and we can get you taken care of.
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my best to answer them.
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