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Title: Strange starting problem...
Post by: Athame57 on November 20, 2021, 12:10:39 PM
This past few days, when I go to start the bike for the first time of the day, the starter button is dead.  :o Something had me wonder and I moved the kill switch back and forth a few times and hey presto, it starts and there is no more trouble all day.  ;D  Any ideas?
Title: Re: Strange starting problem...
Post by: ST1100 on November 20, 2021, 01:00:34 PM
Corrosion (ambient humidity caused)...
I service my switch-pods with a whiff of ACF-50 on the contacts, moving parts, springs, etc... get a small dab some silicone grease...
Q-tips and tooth-pics come handy for application...
Attention when taking switches apart, some have a spring-loaded steel ball inside...
Title: Re: Strange starting problem...
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on November 20, 2021, 02:16:50 PM
Certainly seems as though it's an electrical connection poor contact as ST1100 suggests.
Title: Re: Strange starting problem...
Post by: Laverdaroo on November 20, 2021, 02:38:57 PM
What they said!

I'd have a quick check of the connectors also just while youre in there with all yer kit out. Stranger things have happened.
Title: Re: Strange starting problem...
Post by: Bryanj on November 20, 2021, 03:23:09 PM
Kill switch has nothing to do with starter it only affects the spark, you probably miutely moved the whole assembly and button grounded better, if its an old style that is.
Title: Re: Strange starting problem...
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on November 20, 2021, 05:44:00 PM
Next time try just wiggling the starter button?
Title: Re: Strange starting problem...
Post by: Athame57 on November 21, 2021, 07:38:33 PM
Next time try just wiggling the starter button?
Turning my mind to that I would be doing things it was never meant for. Maybe it would then do what my CB250N Super Scream did in 1983 and lose the starter button.  ::) Honda would want you to buy a new unit!  :o
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