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Broken griso battery leads, HELP!

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I need some advice on battery terminals. I was out riding my Griso 1100, then the service light came on, I shut it off to see if it would clear, but the bike would not start. I pulled the seat and found both the positive and negative terminals had broken at the 90 degree bend coming off the battery. I bent up the stubs and tried to hook up what was left of the battery leads, but not enough length. As the leads seem to short to cut them off and crimp on new terminals, if any are available, any suggestions on how to proceed? Do I need to grind off the originals and replace them with what? I ended up pushing the bike about 1 mile, man, that is hard on an old man....
Any input is appreciated

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I don't know if this can help but if you do not have enough length ..... I would try to pry, remove the existing connectors, on the wires, and replace them with similar connectors. (Using the same lenght already existing and spliced)
When replacing the connectors you do need a good crimping tool!

If you have to cut the wire lenght to crimp new connectors .... you most probable will have to add a bolt extension to screw the connector on the battery side terminals not on the top like shown.

Was this caused by battery vibration?
Noticed the battery bracket holder missing on the pic.
 
guzzi jon said:
I need some advice on battery terminals. I was out riding my Griso 1100, then the service light came on, I shut it off to see if it would clear, but the bike would not start. I pulled the seat and found both the positive and negative terminals had broken at the 90 degree bend coming off the battery. I bent up the stubs and tried to hook up what was left of the battery leads, but not enough length. As the leads seem to short to cut them off and crimp on new terminals, if any are available, any suggestions on how to proceed? Do I need to grind off the originals and replace them with what? I ended up pushing the bike about 1 mile, man, that is hard on an old man....
Any input is appreciated

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Jon, on mine, the terminals are oriented to the sides of the battery.

Yours appear to be routed towards the rear of the battery.

Also, I see some green fuzz on the right-hand terminal which is usually associate with the positive terminal.

If your positive terminal is on the right side, it is backwards from mine, as mine has the negative terminal on the right.

I am certain of this because I have had to clean up a lot of green crud off of my positive terminal a few times.

HTH

-Jack
 
Hi Jack
My terminals are like yours, but lots of green crud. The battery holddown was not very tight and I think my wheelying did it in. I just wanted a simple solution, and I have some good feedback. I really want to just find some good crimp terminals, grind off the old ones and go from there, not replace the power and ground leads with different ones. I will tell you, on a cold day, a griso sure wheelies a lot easier and longer, just got to get rid of that damn rev limiter
 
guzzi jon said:
I will tell you, on a cold day, a griso sure wheelies a lot easier and longer, just got to get rid of that damn rev limiter
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You need to get your ECU reprogrammed by Todd with the Guzzitech one, where he extends the revs another 200rpm, it makes a huge difference because the power starts to fall off instead of it smacking into the rev limiter so you have a chance to shift without staring at the tach while riding! Not to mention my Guzzi heads run a lot cooler with the whole ECU, PCV,Autotune, which I never really expected but is a huge difference especially in the desert of Phoenix, AZ...

I can't wheelie a short bike much less the low long Griso..... so it must be all technique... Bravo! we need pictures!
 
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