AZSGT,
First,
overheating. If you use any kind of synthetic motorcycle oil in your bike
you can quit worrying about overheating (and stop turning your bike off all the time which is overworking your starter, battery, etc). I would recommend Rotella T6 synthetic for $21 per big blue gallon jug as sold at Walmart in the diesel oil section (not the car oil section).
Yes, the big assed decomp solenoid should move and make a very audible click sound every time when you hit the starter button. Since this does not do this for you, you have 2 possibilities (bad starter relay) & (mis-adjusted decomp solenoid).
Have you followed the procedure that you were pointed to earlier to properly adjust your cable on the decomp solenoid? 3mm of slop is A LOT OF SLOP but your system requires it. You keep saying your cable is tight, but I question if you are even looking in the right place to tell you how to make your adjustment.
You adjust the cable, but you pop the rubber cover off the back side of the big assed decomp solenoid to check the movement distance? That steel inner rod is supposed to be able to move freely to protrude outside the bearing so it protrudes 3-5mm (or 0.118" 0.197") and that is a LOT of movement of the shaft protruding outside the bearing.
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=tech;action=display;num=1169356966Once you have this properly adjusted, your click (or 'WHACK' should return). If not, check the juice going to the decomp solenoid from the timer relay, then check to see if you have juice going TO the timer relay itself.
You can jump around the timer relay and shoot 12volts to the solenoid for just a fraction of a second to see if you get a proper click OR you can do a simple resistance check on the big assed decomp solenoid itself -- never had one go bad yet but there is always a first time.
Anyway, get your click or "whack" back. Then if your problem persists you may have a dead bar on your starter armature. I hope not, as this is expensive and is likely outside your zone of expertise to try to fix. Buying a used starter on Ebay is generally how folks wind up addressing this issue.
If you do wind up buying a used starter, please save me all the pieces of your old starter -- I collect the pieces and try to get a good one out of the pieces of several dead ones. So far dead armatures have stopped me from succeeding at this, so yes starters really do go bad on occasion.
Pages: 1
