Hey guys, Heres my situation: Loaded my 07 610 on the trailor to take it for a weekend of riding. Accidentaly left the heated grip switch on and completely drained the battery. I managed to bump start the bike and went for a good hour long ride with no problems. When I went to kill the engine via the stock stop switch, the motor dies but the switch started to smoke, so I turned the key off. After this the bike wouldn't start so I took the switch apart and found that it was toast. I tried just touching the starter wires together and the bike would turn over, but not start. Towed it back to camp, took out the plug, no spark. Trailored the bike home, checked all fuses, wires, all looks good. Battery is charged, turns bike over. New spark plug with a proper gap. Took stator cover off, looks good in there. Still not getting any spark. Could anyone help an electrical newbie out? What kind of voltage should I be getting from the 3 wires from the stator? How do I check the coil and plug wire? Should I be looking somewhere else for the problem? thanks in advance for help A.
Spark you say, but not necessarily to the plug. Check spark at plug... If not there, then at least you've made diagnostic progress.... Starter relay possibly.? I'm no expert...
Thanks glangston, the starter circuit works well, turns over off the switch no problem. I'm trying to figure why i still have no spark. I figured whatever fried my kill switch might have fried something else too?
You implied the kill switch smoked and was toasted. Did you repair it, or connect the wires together? Looking at the drawing in the service manual, it looks like grounding the black wire in the kill switch housing kills the engine (grounding the CDI). It must be open to allow the engine to run. Maybe the wire insulation melted and is shorted to ground (handle bar) or a ground wire (blue).
