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JonnyT
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Starter assembly

Post by JonnyT » Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:42 pm

My bike tries to start when I try to put my clamps on when I have the key on while putting the throttle together. Any ideas? Is there a trick to starter button or have I got a short in my wire? Could I have wired it up wrong?

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Re: Starter assembly

Post by LOUD MOUSE » Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:54 pm

The button when pushed touches a part inside the assembly.
You have a contact with the metal with the end of the wire. ............lm
JonnyT wrote:My bike tries to start when I try to put my clamps on when I have the key on while putting the throttle together. Any ideas? Is there a trick to starter button or have I got a short in my wire? Could I have wired it up wrong?

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Starter button

Post by JonnyT » Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:24 pm

So are you saying I have a wire touching somewhere else?

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Post by JonnyT » Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:31 pm

Just had a thought. The wire must loop under in the groove in the bottom of the Thin board it is on. You know, the " u" in the bottom.

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Re: Starter button

Post by LOUD MOUSE » Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:39 am

Yep.
Ya can measure from the headlight end of the green/red wire for a short to the bars at the switch end. .....lm
JonnyT wrote:Just had a thought. The wire must loop under in the groove in the bottom of the Thin board it is on. You know, the " u" in the bottom.

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Post by JonnyT » Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:27 am

There was one, one, just one single stray strand of wire outstanding inside the switch and that was what was doing it. All I had to do was put my glasses on!! Thanks to everybody!

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