Hi Folks,

So my parts arrived for the previous thread. http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1493666359

I slapped them in and heard a wonderful whirring noise. After much confusion I realized that it sounded as though the starter was simply spinning the wrong way. Sure enough, when I pulled it out and examined it with a test run on the bench it was running in the wrong direction to crank the engine over.
Has anyone seen this before? Is there a way to reverse it? With only one wire going in I am confused.   I'm happy that I know what is wrong, but confused why it's doing it and a little miffed that I'm not up and running right now.

Thanks in advance!

If the starter spins the wrong way, take it out and turn the bike around and put it back in. Problem solved.

The strangest thing about it is that it was spinning the correct direction in September.

If you look at your headlight and it's Darker than the Blakkist of Nights, you've got the battery in bakkerds fershure

You
Opened up the starter.

Did you remove the anti reverse stuff?

How are you deciding it's bakkerds?

If it's spinning so as to drive the crankshaft the same way the wheels roll, it's right.

Rotation should be ccw looking from the motor end toward the shaft.