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Scooters - 125 to 300 => Downtown 300 => Topic started by: Mace3739 on February 23, 2021, 02:18:02 AM
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Hello everyone! My Downtown has what I think is a drained battery. I've got a trickle charger to charge it right up, but what tools do you think I'm gonna need to reach it? Any advice would mean a great deal to me. ;D
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Remove the seat - 2 hinge nuts + 1 strut nut
Remove the seat bucket - 4 nuts + 1 cable
Remove the battery cover - 4 screws
Easy and done.
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By the way, all screws for seat and a bucket are 10mm, and all screws for battery cover are Phillips. So, very basic tools.
In my case for the seat, there are 2 hinge and 2 strut nuts. First undo strut, because then You can fully open the seat to undo the hinge.
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By the way, all screws for seat and a bucket are 10mm, and all screws for battery cover are Phillips. So, very basic tools.
In my case for the seat, there are 2 hinge and 2 strut nuts. First undo strut, because then You can fully open the seat to undo the hinge.
Awesome, so all I'd need is a phillips and a 10mm screwdriver to access it and put it back together again?
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By the way, all screws for seat and a bucket are 10mm, and all screws for battery cover are Phillips. So, very basic tools.
In my case for the seat, there are 2 hinge and 2 strut nuts. First undo strut, because then You can fully open the seat to undo the hinge.
Awesome, that does sound pretty easy. ;D
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A word of caution about trickle chargers.
When my Triumph battery completely discharged recently, the trickle chatter wouldn't even light up! A few hours with a standard charger then I was able to switch over to the trickle charger successfully! I'm sure someone on here will know why this might be. I'm guessing the output from a TC is way too low to retrieve a totally dead battery!
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A word of caution about trickle chargers.
When my Triumph battery completely discharged recently, the trickle chatter wouldn't even light up! A few hours with a standard charger then I was able to switch over to the trickle charger successfully! I'm sure someone on here will know why this might be. I'm guessing the output from a TC is way too low to retrieve a totally dead battery!
Ah, I see. I also have a plug in wall charger. Perhaps I can get it started with that and then finish it off with the trickle.
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Yep, that's what I did! Try the trickle first by all means, but it may not work right off...
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By the way, all screws for seat and a bucket are 10mm, and all screws for battery cover are Phillips. So, very basic tools.
In my case for the seat, there are 2 hinge and 2 strut nuts. First undo strut, because then You can fully open the seat to undo the hinge.
I could be wrong, but he's probably talking about a 10mm socket.
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I could be wrong, but he's probably talking about a 10mm socket.
I see, phillips screwdriver, socket wrench. :D I wonder if there's anything else?
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Nope. Just watch out for under seat light cable and external diag port when You remove the seat bucket.
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sounds like you should look up what tools look like on your computer,. as screw drivers have a lot of sizes philips 0,. 1,. 2,. 3,.
torex screw driver t 10,. t15,. t20 t25,. t 30,. t 35 ,. t40 and bigger,. allen Keys Hex , Torex, sockets 6 point and 12 point and square metric and american standard, Im 87 so I use impact drills to take things apart, small drills , 5 volt. reg. ones 12 volt, and corded ones with high power,. and use a Torque wrench to tighten nuts or you will break them off, mostly the # 8 and #10 nuts good luck and happy riding,.
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sounds like you should look up what tools look like on your computer,. as screw drivers have a lot of sizes philips 0,. 1,. 2,. 3,.
torex screw driver t 10,. t15,. t20 t25,. t 30,. t 35 ,. t40 and bigger,. allen Keys Hex , Torex, sockets 6 point and 12 point and square metric and american standard, Im 87 so I use impact drills to take things apart, small drills , 5 volt. reg. ones 12 volt, and corded ones with high power,. and use a Torque wrench to tighten nuts or you will break them off, mostly the # 8 and #10 nuts good luck and happy riding,.
Hmm a torque wrench is one I don't have, I'll make sure to get one too. This is my first bike, first vehicle ever, really. I want to do the job right.
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If you need good tools, cheap, Harbor Freight is your friend.
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If no Harbor Freight around..
.tools from the dollar table at local hardware store quite adequate for scooter mechanics.
Stig