Slow Starter?

[Daniel Wickers]

Having owned my 2005 1000ss for about a year now, thought i would ask a perhaps stupid question (Along with some of the others i have posted) do all 1000 Ducati's have a slow starter motor? or maybe thats just the way Ducati's start?

It starts ok, just turns over kinda slow

Dont want to get a more powerful starter motor if i can help it, maybe a better battery is the way forward?

Cheers guys

[Joe-B]

Weak battery and/or bad connections (+,-, wire to starter). If the battery is good, I'd clean and reconnect the 3 critical wires: battery + and -, and solenoid to starter motor wire (and don't forget engine ground wire to frame). Grease with dielectric grease. Or install Powerlet or Motolectric starter/battery circuit wires. People seem to love em.

[Daniel Wickers]

one thing i noticed (not seen it on any bike i had before) is a lot of grease/oil on fuses? anyway, the bike has had no mods regarding Earth connections, so i assume its already connected to frame> if not any advice for better source is welcome ;-)

[470four]

Your starter and battery are more than likely fine - the feed wires are the problem...
See the tailend of this thread for advice & photos etc, the best £6 I ever spent on a bike was fitting a fat earth/ground lead straight from the battery earth to the motor earth point - now spins real good!

Negative Battery Cable

[Daniel Wickers]

thanks a bunch guys, seems the simple solutions is always the best lol, cheers to the original post for the pics too, makes things easy to understand, love this forum!

[Daniel Wickers]

Just b4 i buy a cable i assume we are talking about this one below, although i'm not sure about the gauge?

eBay - The UK's Online Marketplace

[sirduke]

Originally Posted by Daniel Wickers

Just b4 i buy a cable i assume we are talking about this one below, although i'm not sure about the gauge?

eBay - The UK's Online Marketplace

That looks a bit thin to me. I bought a 60cm (length) one from Halfords that was intended for a car. Works a treat, as 470four will testify

[470four]

Originally Posted by sirduke

That looks a bit thin to me. I bought a 60cm (length) one from Halfords that was intended for a car. Works a treat, as 470four will testify

Thats the boy! My earth/ground lead is about 1/2" thick?? 16mm² cable will do as a minimum, you can never find them in the right length though? I cut them shorter (measure/mark/CHECK/then cut...) crimp & solder another end on and fit the bike... Remember the flow from the battery to the end point will only be as good as its weakest point/bottleneck.

I'm using these?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...#ht_500wt_1287

The battery connection is a 6mm end fitting, 8mm is usable but may rattle around a bit? Will fit the engine ground tho.

Have also floated a little solder into the small hole in the end to ensure they don't come off/loose, lightly nip the cable up in a vice & heat the very end of the connector with a blowtorch (don't get the heat too close to the cable or the insulation will get Well Toasty & melt), keep testing the heat with the solder & run a little in?

The one from the battery + to the solenoid is 16", make sure you have it tight down the side of the battery & well insulated to stop your gas tank becoming 12v live. Wont be a good look. Run a little heatshrink tube over the lead before fitting the new end so you can shrink it over the base of the connector.

You off of Ducatisti.co.uk, sirduke??

[Daniel Wickers]

I am kinda limited on where to get the leads :-/ being in Greece there are not many places like Halfords (if any) so if you can point me in the direction of some on-line suppliers that will be really useful as all i found so far are the ones from EBay above, and seem a bit expensive? 24 Inches (approx 60cm) which i think is the correct length????

Or i will just go to a local garage and have them make one up perhaps? assuming 60cm is the correct size?

Thanks again guys :-0

[Daniel Wickers]

oh just a quicky, my 1000ds/ss the positive is on the Left not the Right as shown in the pics from the other thread? so suggestions on how best to run the new lead, and where to connect may well prove helpful ;-)