Lreckeb12

well.. I dug into the whole starter gear/sprocket thing and found out that the second sprocket in there is MISSING and the piece of metal rod it sits on is missing also and broke. guy who sold it to me was a LIAR. well merry Christmas.. hope its better than mine :aargh::aargh:

ohh geeeeez... great! I bet that's whats wrong considering I wont work even when I bridge the solenoid. alllrighty I will look into that. then I will email Suzuki that they need new engineers haha! thank you for all your help!

yeah I did take the starter off and put the nut coming out of it on the positive and grounded it out with a screwdriver directly to the battery and It spun fast. however I believe the gear/socket you are speaking off does not turn freely. if I understand you correctly its what the starter basically plugs into with its teeth. sooo is there a way to free this up?

all night? I did it for 2-3 hours that's what the guy at napa had told me I believe. the battery reads 12.4 volts.

should I go longer?

i don't think so.. i bought a brand new battery and new acid.. i just don't know what else to do..

got more acid filled it. and stillllll no start.. new starter,new battery, solenoid clicks. could it be the solenoid? I bridged it and still nothing happened..

I took the battery to get tested and they said it was dead. but I actually just bought a brand new starter so I did test it and it is good. but with my luck they didn't give me enough battery acid so hopefully it will start when I get more acid

ok so I charged it and when I went to start it the ring terminal on the nut that is on the starter started smoking right where it is crimped. and it didn't start.. do I need to re splice it and crimp it again?

the battery had previously been running my friends 250 cc Honda quad the day before

mine is a 500cc however

ok.. I swapped out a battery that was 11.80 volts and still got nothing but the fast click from the solenoid..

oh crap. I got myself a dead battery...

ok.. soo I checked the battery and it reads 11.40 on a 20v meter so I took the starter off and grounded it to the frame and it turned over but sounded rather weak to me. soooo I hooked it back up and used the solenoid ground this time and got nothing..... soo then I bridged to solenoid and stillll nothing. now my solenoid wont even click......... then I went on a rage and threw a few wrenches and came and typed this. haha thanks for all your help so far man!

nope still nothing.

ok. I cleaned all the terminal on the battery, solenoid, and starter and applied grease to them all.. and I loosened a screw on the solenoid and when I tried to starter it the solenoid only clicks once now. I used a test light and when I touch the - side its a dim light on the solenoid. I also charged the battery. still it wont even turn over. sooooo I am lostttt!!! haha hellllp!!

Ha! I wish it were that easy for me! one thing just keeps leading to another soooo I threw a new plug in and got a starter. AND nowwwwwww the solenoid just clicks realllly fast. Does this means its broke? or do I have a bad connection? or what? I have heard about the strator could that be a problem? its not even turning over......

alrighty I will do that and get back to ya. Thanks Man.

no I believe it is all stock. yes they do have vacuum lines. actually when I was taking carb off I noticed a hose came with it. now that hose comes straight from carb and idk where it goes. I kinda thought it might have been an overflow tube? it comes off the top of carb. the vacuum lines are in right spot I believe and are not cracked. it feels like there is enough gas it just doesn't rev fast at all. kinda like if you start off in 5th gear in a car haha. however I have not changed spark plug since I changed carb and before that their was gas backing up everywhere.

well I just cleaned all the jets.. is there a certain way they are adjusted? I don't understand the last part hah any bolts? sorry

I have a Suzuki ive been working on. my only one problem I have left is that when I first got it I could get it to 45 quickly and easily now I can only get it to about 16 very slowly. Suggestions????? THANK YOU!!!!

what do I adjust on the carb to "fine tune" it?

ok.. so I cleaned the carb again really good. and adjusted what I thought was the idle. it was a flat head top needle right next to the float cover on the carb. I put everything back on and It started up and now it goes on its on at about 4 mph without me pushing gas. also when I ran it before I could get about 40 mph really quickly now I can get 20 mph very slowly. and when I turned it off it back fired like a boss. there is one hose that's not connected on the carb but I thought it was a valve that just is for overflow?

alright. Thank you I will look into that.

where is that pick up coil located?

no my electric start doesn't work because of bad starter I believe. but ya thats probably right... pick up coil? ill have to look into that also..

And just another random question.. how come somtimes when i pull start it, it will fire up on the first pull and other times it will not start at all?