Hi all.  Please help.

Everytime I shift it in to gear the engine DIES for no good reason (while holding the clutch down).
In other words, the machine cannot be running while in gear.

Here´s the story...Just bought a savage, 97, black, 4,000 Mi, good shape, good deal.

Anyway, today I took it apart for the first time, BASIC SERVICE, and did an oil / filters / spark plug / cleaned carb+white spacer mod / drilled holes in air box & adjusted clutch cable cause it was a bit lose.

Put it back together and turned right on, purrrs better than ever, very strong,  backfire gone.
But now it doesn´t go ???

(Something like what happens when a kid tries for the first time to drive a car with gears).

I thought it was the clutch cable so I adjusted it back and forward but no luck. Cable is still good, pulls all the way.

Shifting now somehow acts like a kill swich, no clue.

Could I had forgotten to connect something?
Electric?
Clutch gone?


Please help.

Richard P.
stimpford@hotmail.com

Thanks in advance

Got it, got it.

I kinda had the feeling it was something electrical, not mechanical but I couldn´t quite figure it out.

Right! ...the darn kick stand has a kill switch, duh.

I must have damaged the switch while placing the bike on my tool box.

Thanks a TON WD!

I´ll get up early and give it a try and I´ll tell you how it went.

No worries and you're welcome. I picked it up from a guy named Russ, Hoggryder on the old Heise Savage forum. Your switch failed right on schedule mileage-wise, a bit late age-wise.

Yeah, most of us are alright. I tend to get a bit grumpy, OK, short tempered, OK, downright evil at times. I've been in the bike scene so long I tend to forget what it was like being new to it. It doesn't help that I work in a bike shop and used to be a professional customiser.
-WD