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Also might be worth noting the wiring is not stock on this bike. It has 96+ controls, and the connector in the back of the headlight that would have dash indicator lights and turn signals has been removed and the bike doesn’t have these luxuries anyways.
If you connected a jumper wire from the positive post of the battery and the small terminal on the solenoid (where the green wire goes) and the starter did not crank, the problem is the solenoid.
even if the solenoid functions properly when taken off the bike and bench tested?
If you connected a jumper wire from the positive post of the battery and the small terminal on the solenoid (where the green wire goes) and the starter did not crank, the problem is the solenoid.
agreed. If when you do that it shorts out the whole bike it sounds like your solenoid must be shorted to ground
With the negative terminal disconnected and the key on, but only with the key on, I have continuity from the positive terminal to my inner primary. This proves it’s a short on a switched wire correct?
And with the regulator ground disconnected it has continuity to the positive terminal as well. Maybe I’m chasing my tail on this one but there shouldn’t be any reading from positive to the grounds correct?
Don`t say continuity, it may not mean the same thing to you as it does to someone else.
Tell us exactly what you touched the voltmeter positive probe to, and exactly what you touched the voltmeter negative probe to, and what were the ohms read.
I think you are getting into junk science now...
Last edited by Dan89FLSTC; Sep 16, 2020 at 01:34 PM.
Good question... Most likely the original issue Mike....
s*** I don't know anybody that's going to say, " oh yeah, I think I'll rebuild my solenoid today "...... Lol... Don't take me serious Zdollar ..
Sometimes you got to have a little chuckle in there too....
As you said most likely but I just wanted to be sure.
It could have been he had a different problem and the current one only occurred after the rebuild.
Don`t say continuity, it may not mean the same thing to you as it does to someone else.
Tell us exactly what you touched the voltmeter positive probe to, and exactly what you touched the voltmeter negative probe to, and what were the ohms read.
except couldn’t there be continuity from positive to positive? As in it’s inline? Because it’s showing continuity which is making me think the ground is receiving power somewhere, and when the battery negative is hooked up I’m getting no reading at all, as in it shuts down the meter which doesn’t happen with no reading.
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