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Old 10-13-2009, 03:44 AM   #5 (permalink)
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So - I now have to go over my bike's electrical system with a comb and see what I screwed up.

Not paying attention, the other day, and the bike still not being fully tuned and/or wired completely, I got tired of trying to kick start it, to no avail, so I jumped it off my van's 12V (oops) battery. (This was before I knew it was 6V system) It popped off at first, but ran like it didn't want to be alive... After several "near starts", I gave up for a minute, went to get the chainsaw ready to help my Father cut up firewood, and then went back to the bike. I left the jumper cables hooked up the whole time (bike's 6V battery is disconnected, so no harm there. Not even sure that battery is any good) and I think I may have just destroyed the ignition coil or some other component of the 6V system. Hopefully it wasn't something that will require pulling the engine apart, like the A.C. Generator.

There are connections not connected, and I just got the service manual today, cleaning up the images of bleed through, then going to print the 207 pages double-sided and put them in a binder in my Service Manual drawer.

I'm going to wait to play with it more until I get my quad running, so I can start clearing these peas from my plate... (metaphorically, of course.. I eat peas from a bowl.)

Once the Honda TRX 200 Quad is running, I'll move it back to my Father's house for storage, then move the TwinStar over here so I can really get to work on it.
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