I have had two Super Tenere's before and now have a 61,000 mile '99 TDM - a big fan, but is this the most difficult bike ever to change a battery ? Absolute pig... even loosening the rear brake master cylinder hasn't worked. Am I missing something ?
Battery removal
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Wheelspin
, May 20 2006 10:01 am
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Daveb
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Posted 20 May 2006 - 10:42 am
The best way I found to remove the battery on my '99 TDM is make a good cuppa before you start then remove rear brake lever, take off the right hand side rear peg set, loosen brake cylinder. remove battery cables from solenoid, Remove 2 screws fixing battery box, battery slips out of RHS of rear strut.
Removal & fitting should take about 15-20
Hope this helps
Removal & fitting should take about 15-20
Hope this helps
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tdm850rider
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- Location:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
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Posted 20 May 2006 - 01:46 pm
Course you could extend the wiring and mount your battery in one of your panniers. 
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ROB1
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- Location:bradford west yorks
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Posted 20 May 2006 - 05:30 pm
QUOTE(tdm850rider @ Sat 20th May 2006, 04:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Course you could extend the wiring and mount your battery in one of your panniers.
took the rear shock off 1st time-big mistake.they do come out tho just a tad difficult.
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Wheelspin
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Posted 24 May 2006 - 02:37 pm
Actually, I found a much easier way - just take off the rear hugger. Not sure if that was an original fitment so that might be why Yamaha don't mention it in the service details. Still not as easy as some, but a lot easier than I first thought......
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