02-03-2020, 05:32 AM
Ahh, batteries and tow stories. I had a Kawasaki Nomad 1500 (Your not gonna bump-start one of these) that began to give me problems. It would start right up at my house, but when I went somewhere, then came out to leave, it would just crank the engine pretty good, but not start it. Pulling a plug, I could see the spark was weak. I replaced the battery and I thought the problem was over, but no, it wasn't. It began to exhibit the same behavior again, and it left me stranded three times. Close to home, I called my wife to bring me the jumper cables, and it would fire right up, then one time it wouldn't start and I had it flat-bedded home. I did all the checks, and it passed every one. I took it to a local shop, they could not find a problem and I told them to dig deeper. Well, they dug four hundred bucks deeper to find a bad stator with an intermittent problem. I sold the bike soon after that.