Wilsons Sandbox

Jim your input has been greatly helpful. I got some additional info from xactoman(Brad) as to location and what the part looks like. I'll be replacing this part ASAP! Joe S -----Original Message----- From: Jim Hyman [SMTP:professor.jim@...] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 4:01 AM To: simino@...; KLR List Subject: [DSN_klr650] Re: Balancer Failures, now starter keeps running Joe, A relay is a heavy duty switch that handles high current. The relay has a trigger or control circuit that uses standard sized wire to operate the control circuit. Normally, the relay turns OFF when you remove power to the control circuit. Dollars to donuts, your main starter relay froze in the "ON" position. A heavy battery cable goes from the battery to the main starter relay, and then on to the starter motor. Normally when you release the starter button, this cuts power to the starter circuit relay which then cuts power to the control circuit of the main starter relay. You might have been able to free up the stuck relay by hitting the side of the relay sharply. If this doesn't work, the only way stop the starter motor is by disconnecting the positive cable that goes to the relay. A quicker way to do this is to remove the black relay cover above the side stand (& below the fuel petcock) and disconnect one of the thick cables on the relay. Try not to short either terminal to the frame while loosening one of the cables, sparks will fly. Disconnecting the negative cable could result in toasting your whole wire harness, if the small ground wire remains connected to the battery's negative terminal while this is happening, even if only for an instant. Do NOT try to re-use the relay, replace it ASAP. You need to trickle charge your battery with a 1 amp trickle charger for 12 - 24 hours ASAP. Don't use a charger with 2 or more amps, even if it tapers down to 1 amp, you might end up cooking your battery. A small m/c battery needs to be charged at a very slow rate over an extended time period. Be warned, battery acid & gases will give you relegious clothing, very hole-y. Jim ++++++++ J Simoneaux wrote:

> Jim, very informative. Thanks for the response. I'll contact Fred

regarding

> the lever. > On a separate subject, I had the craziest thing happen to me yesterday.

I

> pulled up to a friends house to show off my new Givi set up. We talked

for a

> minute or two and when I went to restart my bike the starter kept > running. I shut the motor down and it quit running but the starter kept > pushing me across the yard. I put her in neutral and ripped off the

seat(I

> don't use the seat bolts)and disconnected the battery. By the time I got

it

> stopped the battery was already flat. What could possibly cause this. Oh,

I

> forgot to mention that it kept running even when the key was switched

off.

> Joe S. A-12 > > [snip]

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