Push start and "click"
Road Captain
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From: beaumont texas
I went to the beginning of this post.you said this spring you had the battery load tested.it is now September,thus it's a new day.time to start a new.load test the battery again,pull the starter out and run it off the m/c,see how it sounds,is the engine locked up?
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Road Captain
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From: Maine
Unfortunately, I don't know how to run the starter out of the bike. (But I can put in my old one to see what happens.) What do you mean by "is the engine locked up"? 
I was able to jump start it...
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Road Captain
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From: Maine
Okay, so I just took my wife's, good Switchback battery and put it into mine... same click. Does that answer the battery question? 
So now I'm going to start taking things off to check wiring.
So now I'm going to start taking things off to check wiring.
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Road Captain
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From: Maine
Okay, so, I checked everything, and everything appeared fine. So I took my old stock POS starter and installed that and it turned over right away. So, my starter came with a one year warranty so I can return it but I'm just curious if anybody knows what might have happened. Or, should I put that new starter back in and see if it starts, thinking along the line that maybe I disturbed something else causing it to work... but I know everything was good, clean and tight.
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Road Captain
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From: Maine
Okay, I'm back. (Whew!) I just put the new starter back in and same click. So I know its the starter. But back to my last question, why would a brand new starter (6 months old or so) fail so completely like that?
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From: sugar land, gulf coast, tx
Seems the thing about electrics and electronics is that they will fail quickly, due to a default, or will work for a loooong time, problem free. I learned this through many years in the auto repair and electronics industries.
Enjoy the warranty and forget as to why it broke, they just do...dd50
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Road Captain
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From: Maine
Starters are electro-mechanical devices. It's the electro that is probably the problem. A starter is just an electric motor, that has seems like miles of varnish coated wire windings. Any short or dead spot anywhere in the wiring or contacts will cause the motor not to spin when voltage is applied.
Seems the thing about electrics and electronics is that they will fail quickly, due to a default, or will work for a loooong time, problem free. I learned this through many years in the auto repair and electronics industries.
Enjoy the warranty and forget as to why it broke, they just do...dd50
Seems the thing about electrics and electronics is that they will fail quickly, due to a default, or will work for a loooong time, problem free. I learned this through many years in the auto repair and electronics industries.
Enjoy the warranty and forget as to why it broke, they just do...dd50