thanks, read it plus the clymers manual. replaced battery and used a charging system to fully charge the battery before installing.
Bike starts but kinda hard and I don't want to burn either battery or starter out all the way. I think it's turning it too slow and not pulling enough air though to get it going.
Gonna pull the starter out tomorrow to see if I can see if it's just the brushes or the armatuer, I am semi able to do most things and the Clymers book explians the job pretty well. Price on a used starter is $90 rebuild is $180 and have not called about a new one. Wonder if I can get the brushes only from Kawasaki still, I see the part numbers on the parts pages.
I am just hoping to avoid the starter replacement so I can blow money on the carb kits to clean them up.
I bought this as a semi easy project and am not afraid of some clean up work or minor parts replacements. I did notice I have to do the fork seals. YUCK.
Well, later and thanks for the input
update,
after pulling the starter motor apart, it's all over my living room floor, I found that the post that the positive cable connects to is rusted and looks like it had shorted sometime ago. The previous owner had stated the starter had locked up and had not worked right since even after a dealer
[email protected] $100+, thus the weak turn rate of starter. I honestly doubt the dealer ( Nashville TN???? ) did anything other that take it apart an put it back together. I mean I can see the scorch on the connector SHAME SHAME. get paid for a job do a job. I mean this was sooo easy to do
The armatuer checks out ok after cleaning it up pretty again. I am looking into just getting the brush plate assembly as the kawasaki diagram looks to include all the insulators that are junk on mine. # 21039 if anyone wants to quote a price.
If anyone see's a parts addy for BEARTOOTH, I'd be willing to shop through them if my local dealer is snotty
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