Starter engages intermittently, with engine running...
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From: Songtan, South Korea
Starter engages intermittently, with engine running...
As I headed out to ride to work on my '09 Street Glide this morning, the starter began to engage on and off. I shut her down at a stop light and as soon as I reset the kill switch from off, the starter engaged with out me even touching the start switch. Made it to work and back home. Whenever I depressed the clutch to shift or stop, I could hear the starter turning over. I'm thinking that it must be the start switch but I was wondering if anyone else has seen this happen and what the fix might be. Any good suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.
Cruiser
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From: Central Pennsylvania
I had the same exact problem on my 09 RKC. Engage the Clutch or put in Neutral and the starter would engage. 1st, I pulled the connection from the starter so I could ride back home without damaging the starter. Then TO start the bike I would just have the bike in Neutral, turn the swithch on and push the connector back on the starter brieflyto start the bike. Stopped and bought a new starter switch, that was the issue.
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From: Plum & Nearly
I had the same exact problem on my 09 RKC. Engage the Clutch or put in Neutral and the starter would engage. 1st, I pulled the connection from the starter so I could ride back home without damaging the starter. Then TO start the bike I would just have the bike in Neutral, turn the swithch on and push the connector back on the starter brieflyto start the bike. Stopped and bought a new starter switch, that was the issue.
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Thank you for the suggestions Bigfoot1, Will CF, and twincam47. First of course I'll check the loose connection at the solenoid and then do a ohms check on the switch. I'm thinking it's the switch too. I just printed out the switch assemblies part of the manual.
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From: Mississippi
I would try the starter relay first...It is in the fuse panel if you will look on the panel it has it's location listed on it...I have seen more of them go bad than I have the starter button.
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The problem tends to be either total failure of the switches or can be seen as an intermittent problem.
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Ricochet check my post "Caution on parking your ride!". This is exactly what happened on my deal. Bad starter switch caused a major issue. What happened with mine probably couldn't happen with yours because the 09's won't start in gear without the clutch pulled. After my "issue" I rode my bike and each time I started it during the day you could hear the starter trying to engage until I tapped or "jiggled" the start switch, it would go away with no other problems until I had to use the start switch again.
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Had the same problem on and off, then oneday it wouldn't shut off at all had to pull the wire at the starter to get to stop so I could get it to the shop, over a period of time the starter motor and solennoid was replaced, what finally fixed it was replacing the switch at the handelbars.