Battery Charging: Downtown 300i

[Mace3739]

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. 

[mousejunks]

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.

[francuz69]

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.

[Mace3739]

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?

[Mace3739]

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. 

[Neil955i]

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!

[Mace3739]

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.

[Neil955i]

Yep, that's what I did!  Try the trickle first by all means, but it may not work right off...

[pa-outdoorsman]

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.

[Mace3739]

I could be wrong, but he's probably talking about a 10mm socket.

I see, phillips screwdriver, socket wrench.  I wonder if there's anything else?

[francuz69]

Nope. Just watch out for under seat light cable and external diag port when You remove the seat bucket.

[de dee]

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,. 

[Mace3739]

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.

[pa-outdoorsman]

If you need good tools, cheap, Harbor Freight is your friend.

[Stig / Major Tom]

If no Harbor Freight around..
.tools from the dollar table at local hardware store quite adequate for scooter mechanics.
Stig