I once bought a $200 craigslist bike and the wiring was really wacky on it. I didn't know where to start. I talked to a guy at a shop and he said "you can pay me $90/hr to sort it out or you could just buy a new wiring harness off eBay and be done with it." I bought a wiring harness off eBay for $30 and slopped it on. Voila, problems were solved. That price included the starter solenoid, too. I guess I didn't get all the experiential learning that I would have gotten with a multimeter in hand, but I didn't add any gray hairs, either.
That said, I shorted out a starter solenoid and made a bike go black this summer myself. Although it took me a while to realize that's what I had done, a $7 starter solenoid from eBay brought it back to life. YMMV On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 10:45:27 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > I just picked up this beautiful '83 Nighthawk! It does not run at the > moment, hopefully I can change that soon. The guy I bought it from says It > ran last summer but "he shorted the electrical system when he was trying to > carve down an aftermarket starter relay". The guy said he's replaced a > bunch of wiring, but hasn't quite got to the finish line. > > > Any tips on where I should start with this bike to get it running again? > Should I just replace the starter relay and go from there? I am very handy > and plan on doing all of the work myself. Any help would be greatly > appreciated! > > It has 47,000 miles on it and I have no idea about how it was maintained. > > I plan on replaced all of the spark plugs, flushing and replacing the > engine oil and rear finish oil and air filter. Anything else in regards to > "MUST REPLACE" that I should do? > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
