{"id":75665,"date":"2010-11-06T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=75665"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:54","slug":"nothing-but-non-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20101106\/decoboco-cars\/sportster-d\/nothing-but-non-runners","title":{"rendered":"Nothing but Non-Runners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-1010824561\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>The Sportster&#8217;s been acting up lately<br \/>\nThe ignition switch works sometimes, doesn&#8217;t work other times<br \/>\nIt turns on if I fiddle with it just right, but it dies when I try to start it\u2026<br \/>\nThe last things I touched were the tank and seat<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s probably where the problem is.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1508794_61876510_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Every last one of them has expired registration and I don&#8217;t ride them anyway\u2605<br \/>\nThe only one with current registration has an electrical problem<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1508794_61876510_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The voltage is 12.4V, a bit low, so I&#8217;m recharging it. I need to check the regulator!<br \/>\nI sprayed contact cleaner in the key cylinder and the ignition switch started working\u2026<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s scary\u2026 Maybe I should replace it?<br \/>\nThe ignition key\u2026<br \/>\nFirst things first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sportster&#8217;s been acting up lately The ignition switch works sometimes, doesn&#8217;t work other times It turns on if I fiddle with it just right, but it dies when I try to start it\u2026 The last things I touched were the tank and seat That&#8217;s probably where the problem is.&nbsp; &nbsp;Every last one of them has expired registration and I don&#8217;t ride them anyway\u2605 The only one with current registration has an electrical problem&nbsp; &nbsp;The voltage is 12.4V, a bit low, so I&#8217;m recharging it. I need to check the regulator! I sprayed contact cleaner in the key cylinder and the ignition switch started working\u2026 That&#8217;s scary\u2026 Maybe I should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-75665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sportster-d","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}