hey my friend just got a lt 160cc and it needs a battery..to get it started.(and i think to keep it running)i call 1 of the motor sport places around me and they told me that the quad wont pop start because it needs the battery to run.is this true.or and i just pop start it.if i need to get a battery its gonna cost around 30-40 dollars.if any one knows any were where i can get a cheaper 1 that would help.and.does any one know if this quad is a stroke or a 4 stroke because its semi auto and i cant realy tell.

any help would be greatly apsheated

 

Suzuki LT160 is a 4-stroke. Pretty sure that you have to have a battery in it to keep it running, even with a bump start. When we had an LT80, we killed a battery with an aux headlight. As long as the voltage on the battery was low, it barely ran so I imagine it needs a constant 12v minimum to keep going.

You can get a $50 (or more) battery from your friendly Suzuki dealer or you can get a cheaper one from Wal-Mart.

Jaybee

 

so it does need the batery to run.because we see were the batery needs to go but this not one in it,WILL A MOTOR CYCLE BATERY WORK?

 

My friend has an lt160. It has no battery and it starts and runs just fine without it. He just pop-starts it, and the headlight doesn't work very well. The biggest down-side is when it stalls in really rough terrain or a mud hole. I don't know why they didn't build it with a back-up starter.

 

ok so it not need a batery? ill try rolling it down a hill

 

how fast do we need to go to pop start it.we pushed it in a flat drive way and it doint work..maby a hill

 

Put it in 4th or 5th gear and hold the shifter in the "up" position. This will give you a neutral. Push it until you get a little speed and then drop the shifter into gear. If it hasn't been started in a while or you aren't sure of the condition of the motor, I would either tow it in gear to try to get it started or jump-start it off of a car or truck. Trying to pop-start a quad over and over again wears thin really fast.

 

wears the tires thin?

 

does it have to be in 4 or 5th gear.or can it be in 1st gear.because we tryed to push it a little bit in nutral and switch in to first.but it dint work bc i think we dint have enof speed.ill try it on a hill

 

"wears thin" is a figure of speech meaning that it gets old, or is a pain in the ***. You can pop-start in 1st, but you have a greater mechanical advantage if you use a higher gear so it's a lot easier in 4th or 5th and the tires won't tend to skid as much as opposed to turning like you want them to.