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Posted by Bikes Are Life
- September 29, 2025, 17:15:58 PMNew battery, and also swapped the battery out of my other drifter, same results. but thanks anyway.
Posted by mittico68
- September 29, 2025, 09:24:51 AMWhat Bucko said + 1.
I've had that kind of problem, a couple of times and each time it sorted out that the battery was in bad conditions: so, I just replaced it and everything went great...
Posted by Bucko
- September 28, 2025, 00:46:59 AMLoad test your battery.
Posted by Bikes Are Life
- September 25, 2025, 12:42:53 PMHi all, new member here but long time rider of 55 years. I have had a 99 Drifter 800 for a while but recently this problem popped up.
The bike has always fired up right away and runs smooth as glass. Recently it fires up cold 99% of the time and runs great. However if it runs even a very short period time as in a minute or two and is shut off, when attempting to restart the bike it has no spark and will obviously not run until the bike has sat for quite a spell and cooled off completely. I have tested everything I can with a multi meter, connections etc. There are no wiring mods done so the harnesses etc are all in clean oem condition. When it starts it does not die and seems fine, until it's shut off. When running it's charging at 14.3 or better, weird thing I think is it charges at that level at idle and seems to drop a bit at higher throttle openings. A note or two here as well, the rectifier gets damn hot fairly quickly, but I'm not sure what's normal or not. All fuses are good. I can't check the ignitor as it says using any multi meter other than the Kawsaski version can damage it. I have checked all grounds, handle bar switch, side stand switch and all appear to be fine. Hopefully someone on here has faced the same issue. any help would be appreciated.