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Old May 28, 2014 | 08:54 PM
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I have a 2006 street glide, I can start it by grounding out the starter, new battery, new relays, cleaned the ignition switch, checked to see if all bolts are tight. It clicks one time at the relay when I try to start it, but nothing else. Anyone have any suggestions, really want to ride. Thanks for any advice.
 
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Not to sound like an *** but try to start it in Neutral, and don't trust the light.
 
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Does the starter click or no?
 
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I have a 2006 street glide, I can start it by grounding out the starter, new battery, new relays, cleaned the ignition switch, checked to see if all bolts are tight. It clicks one time at the relay when I try to start it, but nothing else. Anyone have any suggestions, really want to ride. Thanks for any advice.
"grounding out the starter".....does that mean you are putting an external ground wire to the starter? If so check the ground cable from the battery to the starter bolt where the starter is bolted to the inner primary. It is common for this starter bolt to loosen up and create a ground problem when the big loads come on. Short of that I would suspect your starter solenoid is bad. The clicking you hear....is it a relay or the solenoid clicking?
 
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Sounds like a solenoid to me.
 
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Does the starter click or no?
It just clicks at the relay, but if I put a screwdriver across the positive on the starter to the negative it fires up.
 
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"grounding out the starter".....does that mean you are putting an external ground wire to the starter? If so check the ground cable from the battery to the starter bolt where the starter is bolted to the inner primary. It is common for this starter bolt to loosen up and create a ground problem when the big loads come on. Short of that I would suspect your starter solenoid is bad. The clicking you hear....is it a relay or the solenoid clicking?
I can put a screwdriver on the positive terminal of the starter and touch the negative and it will fire up.
 
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I can put a screwdriver on the positive terminal of the starter and touch the negative and it will fire up.
I would think that you just welded the screwdriver if that is the case. If you jumped the large lug to the small spade slip on green wire terminal then you just bypassed the starting circuit.

The small green wire comes from the starter relay and by your description it is not flowing power when the starter button is pressed. You have bypassed all of that with your jumper.

So what could be causing the problem....defective starter switch, defective run-stop switch, defective TSSM/HFSM, Defective Clutch Starter Safety disengage, starter relay or a broken wire along anywhere in those connections.
 
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