Tightening Positive Battery Terminal, Hit Chassis and Shorted Out?

[peteandrewd]

Sorry to re-post.
How about melting of wires based on what happened? And which wires would be affected if so?

 

[Marvo]

Any damaged wiring would be limited to the wire that connects the -ve side of the battery to the frame of the bike and would be pretty obvious. It's highly unlikely if it was a quick short circuit and you'd also have smelled the burning insulation when the mishap occurred.

Is the bike running fine? Have you ridden it?

 

[peteandrewd]

So would the whole wiring loom be affected? Or just the battery wires?

 

[fall-apart-dave]

You wont have buggered anything aside from, potentially, the battery. Stop worrying you'd know by now if anything else was goosed.

*SLAP* - Thats for even thinking about touching the positive terminal with the negative still connected.