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scubachef,
Thank you for following up and letting us know what solved the problem. Not everyone does. Sometimes these threads just sort of die, and no one knows if the bike got fixed or not, or, in a case where there were multiple suggestions, which one actually worked. Someone is likely to stumble across this thread who has a similar no-start issue, and without your follow up, still might not know what the solution was.
About the washer. A while back I took my stator cover off because the clear coat was coming off and the aluminum was turning black in places. When I pulled the cover off the washer in question was stuck to the inside of the cover. I set it on my workbench with the screws from the cover.
After stripping, polishing. and respraying the cover with clearcoat a week had gone by, and when I went to put the cover back on I realized that I didn't know which shaft the washer was supposed to be on. After kicking myself in the a** for not paying attention when I took the cover off, I went and got my Clymers. No help. I sat and stared at the two shafts for a good long time. I finally concluded that there probably wasn't any need for a washer on the smooth shaft, but that it likely belonged on the shaft with the splines and the snap ring, probably to protect the case. So that's where I put it. I put the bike back together, turned out the lights in the garage and went in the house.
But I couldn't quit worrying about that doggone washer. What if it didn't belong where I put it.
I sat down at my computer and rummaged around in the tech section until I finally stumbled across the picture that I sent you the link to. I don't even remember now what made me look there. Maybe because the thread was about the starter clutch. When I saw the picture showing where the washer belonged, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. That's also how I learned that putting the washer on the wrong shaft could cause the bike not to start.
The old timers on this site, and I'm not one of them, I've only been around for a few years, deserve all the credit. The tech section is a graduate level dissertation on the secrets of these bikes.
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