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March 22, 2018
Reinstalling the Battery on a 2017 Honda Africa Twin
OK. Now, I've got to reconnect the battery on the Africa Twin, and it should be good to go. However, it's not intuitively obvious how to connect this thing, and I don't recall exactly how it went, as it was 2 months ago at the Lima airport when I disconnected it, so I wanted to see if I could go online and find how it's supposed to be done. Fortunately, I found this video, which seems to show the back of the head of a guy removing the battery from a Honda Africa Twin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bchAlzBt36o
OK. In the end, I finally did get the battery reconnected. However, the trick was that, on the hot wire, there are two different ways to attach the lead to the battery. One is vertical direction (hot bolt vertically threaded bolt pointing down) . One his the horizontal direction (hot bolt horizontally threaded pointing towards rear of bike). The only way I could get it to work was with the hot bolt threaded horizontally pointing towards the rear of the bike. So, finally, I got both leads connected to the battery. Lord.
Then, I remembered to check the odometer, as I didn't have a final read on the odometer when I shipped it back from Lima. The final odometer reading from the trip is 13,695.
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 22, 2018 at 1:35 PM
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