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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Compression Release Necessary ? 08/03/12 at 06:25:42 I always wondered,.....in warm weather, and with normal compression, and a fully charged OEM battery, and mainly for trouble shooting purposes only, will these engines crank over w/o the compression release operating ?
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Paraquat Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2206	Re: Compression Release Necessary ? Reply #1 - 08/03/12 at 06:34:59 Yup. Drained my battery messing with my carb jets last week before I realized the decomp wasn't even attached. --Steve
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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: Compression Release Necessary ? Reply #2 - 08/03/12 at 07:29:24 Thanks, good to know.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Compression Release Necessary ? Reply #3 - 08/03/12 at 08:09:17 If you could make sure the motor isnt about to start the compression stroke when you hit the Go button, you wouldnt need it anyway, it only fires for a very short time.
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cafecarl Junior Member Offline I love old motorcycles Posts: 58 Maine Gender:	Re: Compression Release Necessary ? Reply #4 - 08/03/12 at 08:22:39 Replacement starters seem a little pricey for the LS 650. I wouldn't work the starter any more then I had to, and we should give the Suzuki engineers a little credit, they put it on for a reason.
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Reply #5 - 08/03/12 at 11:01:44

In my case, I tried to start the engine a few times without the lever working, less than half of them the engine run appropriately, most cases I heard the starter fighting hard trying to turn it over, to the point it stopped moving, really bad for the wiring, the starter and the battery.

I got the compression solenoid wire to a kill switch on the handlebar, I use it to start and to kill the engine (86 LS with no torque limiter gear), thinking seriously about making a foot lever (something similar to the RYCA one)

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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: Compression Release Necessary ? Reply #6 - 08/03/12 at 16:30:10 Battery life without the decomp solenoid working is 3 months. I killed 3 batteries in one year. Bike has been parked since. Just now getting around to fabbing up a manual release since the bike is almost ready to put back together.
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