Hi guys I need a bit of help working out why electric start won't work! it has been faulty a while where only rear break lever would work the electric start and I had to pull it in quite hard so is it the brake light switches which are faulty as starter motor works fine when putting power straight to that but when I use button it just ticks?
Your post is a little confusing. It seems you are saying that the starter motor works if you put power directly to it so it's not at fault. But otherwise it only makes a clicking sound and only when you pull the brake lever in hard? Most scooters have a safety feature whereby you must pull in the left lever, be it a brake lever or clutch in order for it to fire. If it needs pulling in hard then it's possibly a dodgy switch in the lever. Many bikes also have a side stand switch which can also become faulty. The clicking noise is the starter solenoid which has an electromagnetic switch and the click is the sound of that activating. First check your battery is fully charged. Next check your battery and starter earth points are secure and clean. If still no luck then check the switch on the brake / clutch lever is working. Then check side stand switch. Finally run a multimeter across the starter solenoid and check its working. Also check your kill switch and its earth points. It's a lot to look at. Start with checking all the above for rusty and loose connections in the wires. A low battery will also not be powerful enough to activate the starter properly.
Yeah thanks, what I mean is when I pess the brake lever and press electric it just clicks now, as before it would work but only one lever would activate it where you shouldbe able to press any lever and electric start should work. It not battery, like I said its also not the starter motor I tested by putting wires from my battery directly to starter motor and it spins fine there is no switch on stand on this bike just the brake levers
Replace the starter switch and also the starter solenoid . on most scoots the things that break first are the starters switch and the solenoid to the starter if the switch starts to play up it can make it seem like the solenoid is going , if the solenoid just clicks its 9-10 on its way out . replacing both covers you in a switch fail event and/or a solenoid fizzling out
I'm not sure about your part that 'any lever should activate it'. Pulling in the lever presses a switch and completes the circuit. It should be just one lever that has a switch. If both have switches then both need to be pulled in. If you have two switches you couldn't choose to activate just one of them?! Advice as above, check connections for rust and breaks then replace both lever switch and starter solenoid. You can connect a multimeter to the connectors ent e ring the s solenoid, activate the lever switch and try to start it. This will show if the voltage is reaching the solenoid. If it is then replace the solenoid first, if not replace the switch first or try to bypass it.