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Hi All,
I'm no stranger to renovating bikes, cars or planes, but this 95 CBR 600F3 is new to me. It was running when I got it. I switched everything over to a titled frame, hooked everything back up as it was ( or so I think), but nada. I have power at the switch. Both the kill and start work. Juice gets through the start wire to the 4-pin connecter on the solenoid, but that's where the fun ends. No fuel pump noise, no starter turn over...I bridged the solenoid poles and the starter works.
Solenoid is shot, I guess? The ECU, maybe? Usually the ECU wouldn't prevent a turnover, would it? Am I overlooking a common ground somewhere? I'll figger it out eventually, but a friendly tap on the noggin helps...
I actually did not snap a single photo after I brought it home, very atypical of me. The attached are how she looks, right now... Not much to see now...
check the sidestand and clutch switches - it won't fire the starter if it's in gear and the stand is down, or in gear with the stand up and the clutch not pulled.
Thanks for that. I'm sorry that I forgot to include this is a former track bike. All of the safeties have been bypassed or eliminated. I did just go double check to see if the wire leads were there, but no, they're not. That didn't change. Good suggestion, though, made me double check...
Well, I'm dumb but happy...Not a bad way to go through life, I guess. After reading yesterday's reply about checking safeties, I studied a schematic that just had the Start Circuit. I also stumbled on a 3-pin connector (G/W, Y/B, G) whose G/W wire was energizing when I hit the start button. Since this was a track bike, it had no kickstand. This 3-er plug was for the kickstand. It must have been grounded before my frame-transfer, because as soon as I grounded it, it turned over. D-oh!!!
It was driving me crazy....
Thanks for the nudge in the right direction!
Here is a photo of the F3 assembled, right after a test run. She rides nice, but I have some tweaks to make - throttle, chain, clutch. Front wheel wobbles a bit, even though it was perfectly balanced by the shop...I have a street 95 F3 that I just picked up. The racer F3 sits 1" higher in the back, even though everything looks identical. Will see what that's about...