Re: 1980 CB750F - Starting Issue Advice needed.

Posted by motogrady on Sep 06, 2012; 4:45pm
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/1980-CB750F-Starting-Issue-Advice-needed-tp4028643p4028780.html


check 'em on the bench, meter set to continuity, hook those to the lugs that
supposed to close and carry the heavy juice to the starter.   the big lugs.
then take 2 pieces of wire, an old ext cord split in 2,
 and jump right off the battery to the little lugs.

meter should show continuity and you should hear or feel something kinda click..

if not, check windings in solenoid, might be an open winding...
or maybe a siezed or jammed set of contacts in the soleniod itself.
if that thing is jammed, or the windings half shorted out,
it would pull a lot of juice if you held the button down for any length of time, getting things hot.

you are getting what i would call control voltage to the solenoid when you hit the switch right?