I didn't answer your question fully. Two of the wires go to the fuse. One for battery + the other to the ignition switch. The other wires are for the relay that operates the starter. So if that fuse or the solenoid fail all power is lost except for the main feed for the starter. So you can bridge the solenoid posts and make it crank despite all other power being dead.
Allen Thomas On Nov 3, 2015 10:15 AM, "Allen Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote: > There is wiring inside the solenoid for the fuse. Sometimes that can burn > up. Also if you bought one of the Chinese solenoids off eBay you may have > to swap the wires that plug into it. As they don't always match despite > being sold as something that is a direct fit. It is easy enough to figure > out the pin outs with a multimeter. > > Allen Thomas > On Nov 2, 2015 10:31 PM, "Tommy Hill" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Allen, my trouble shooting went pretty much along the path your mention. >> But I have a question. Why/how would the solenoid failure kill all? Only >> thing I can think is a dirty post on the + side.... >> >> Also, the main fuse flows ALL of the bike's power? So does the 4 wire >> plug on top of the solenoid not pull off any power before the main fuse? >> >> Just trying to understand the flow... >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
