Harley-Davidson® Battery Replacement

With our service nearly completed, let's re-install the negative battery cable. I'll remove the electrical tape. Before I hook up the negative cable to the battery, I like to just take a little dielectric grease, put a wipe on the battery terminal itself. Before I hook up the negative cable to the battery, I want to take a moment and check the torque on my positive cable, 96 inch pounds. I'll also put just a dab of Loctite dielectric grease on the terminal under the red bu. I can perform the same procedure on the negative cable. I'll put the bolt into the battery. Thread it in finger tight. It is a led terminal you don't want to strip that or you will replace the battery, and then I'll torque it to 96 inch pounds. Make sure when you're tightening the cable that you're holding the log-on the cable parallel with the log on the battery. With it torqued, I'll put just a wipe of dielectric grease on it. This will protect it from any moisture or from the elements under the battery cover. I can then replace the Dyna battery cover, making sure that the two notches in the top of the cover are locked in and that it snaps in and is lined up. I can re-install the Phillips screw, at the base of the cover. Make sure the screw is tight. This point I'll have Mark hand me the seat. I can replace the seat making sure it engages fully into the tab lifting forward on it in upward at the base of the fuel tank, making sure it lines up with the allocation in the rear fender. Although the seat screw has a star washer I like to use just the touch of Loctite blue thread locker on the seat screw. Again, all components on the motorcycle are important that they're not only tight, but that they stay that way. I can start to see each screw by hand and then finish tightening it with the Phillips screwdriver. At this point, our service is just about complete. We've changed all the fluids. We've checked all the pressures, we've installed some nice custom rotors. I want to do a little wiping up of any fingerprints or excessive fluids. We're going to lower the motorcycle down put it on the kickstand or the side stand as it's known, do a few final fluid level checks. We'll start the motorcycle, make sure all our fluids are set at their proper height and then we're going to retorque the transmission drain plug and check belt tension on the side stands.