Few more electrical questions before I spend this afternoon hunting the issue I'm having.  Bear with what I know are basic questions...and thanks in advance.  I'm checking to make sure everything is wired correctly but am a little confused by the Clymer's wiring diagram.  Can someone verify that the wiring of my starter solenoid is correct? specifically the yellow/black and the black/white wires on the two smaller terminals are.  Here is how I have the solenoid wired



I want to check the solenoid itself.  I see the Ohm range of 2-6 but am not positive what position to set the multimeter.  Here is a pic of the multimeter I'm using, Which position on the Ohm side should I set it to?



This afternoon I am going to test the starter, the solenoid, and if needed run the wiring from the right handlebar switch back to see if anything is pinched/damaged, etc.  Thanks again for the help.    

If you want to do a real quick check on the solenoid you could just connect your yellow wire to the positive on your battery and the black wire to the negative.  You should hear the click of the magnet moving up.  That's a pretty sure bet it's working.  If you wanna be certain then you also connect your multimeter to the other two terminals and check for continuity.  When you touch the yellow to positive and black to ground you'll hear the click...keep holding them there and then you'll either see a reading on your multimeter (some even beep) which means it's good or it'll show no continuity which means it's bad.  The continuity setting is the one that looks like a soundwave.

I saw that too...maybe an error in translation?

The solenoid is just a switch.  If you connect the batt + to the yellow and the batt - to the black wire you should hear a click if it's working.  While you have the black and yellow wires connected to the batt you can put your multimeter on the two larger terminals and check for continuity (or resistance if you prefer).  If you get a beep then you know with absolute certainty that it's working.

Basically what's happening is when the battery is connected to the yellow and black it charges the electromagnet and the magnet moves up and bridges the two larger terminals.  That's when the switch is closed.  Disconnect the batt and the magnet stops bridging...switch open.  

The pertinent bit of the Clymer instructions are in step 9.

You can't check ohms on a circuit with power to it.

Connect the voltmeter to the starter hot wire and chassis ground. Prove it is not getting power.
If it's getting power then go back, read my posts,

Awesome! Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

I do have the dimensions.  Shoot me an email address to send them to and I'll get them to you.  I got my rearsets from fastfromthepast.com.