badyellowvette
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Thought I would put this in a new thread so anybody searching could find it.
I had a hard bang from my starter that broke my starter shaft. After having it rebuild by Curtis I would still have the bang every now and again. Some of them would be pretty bad. It seemed that sometimes the CR's were not engaging. Nine out of ten times everything was fine but that one time the starter would sound like it was engaging hard and not turning over the motor. After reading threads and posting questions and talking to C.C.rider I decided to wire the CR's to the starter as some have done. Now when the start button is pushed the CR's are engaged.

The wires to the CR's come between the cylinder heads and go into the wrap under the tank. They are covered with braided steel. I have already at this point cut the wires and soldered the two green wires and two black wires together with another green wire to run to the starter and a black wire for ground. Used heat shrink tubing and then covered everything in liquid electric tape. Then I use some clear tubing and ran the wires down through the frame to under the seat.

I used a 15 amp in line fuse holder and soldered it in line, heat shrunk it and covered with the liquid tape.

I took the wrap off the wire bundle that holds the green starter wire and exposed a section of the wire to connect to. Maybe 8 inches from the end of the starter wire.

I wrapped my green wire to the exposed section and soldered.

Covered with the liquid tape then electric tape.

Put the wrap back around the wires used a hand full of cable ties on all the wires. Hooked the black wire I ran to the negative side of the battery, put the gas tank back on and fired her up. So good so far.
I use liquid tape for a little more protection from water. With the electric problems with the Big Dog it sure can't hurt.
When cutting the wires under the tank you end up with two exposed black wires and two green wires that aren't used that go to the EHC connector. I put heat shrink tubing on the ends of the green wires and liquid taped them. I didn't do anything to the black wires.
When soldiering wires I use a low heat pencil soldiering gun and electronic solder.
I made my connection to the starter wire in the wrap so the connection wasn't exposed to water or whatever.
Here is a link to my original thread.
http://www.bigdogbiker.com/threads/...unk-from-my-starter-is-there-a-problem.73644/
I had a hard bang from my starter that broke my starter shaft. After having it rebuild by Curtis I would still have the bang every now and again. Some of them would be pretty bad. It seemed that sometimes the CR's were not engaging. Nine out of ten times everything was fine but that one time the starter would sound like it was engaging hard and not turning over the motor. After reading threads and posting questions and talking to C.C.rider I decided to wire the CR's to the starter as some have done. Now when the start button is pushed the CR's are engaged.

The wires to the CR's come between the cylinder heads and go into the wrap under the tank. They are covered with braided steel. I have already at this point cut the wires and soldered the two green wires and two black wires together with another green wire to run to the starter and a black wire for ground. Used heat shrink tubing and then covered everything in liquid electric tape. Then I use some clear tubing and ran the wires down through the frame to under the seat.

I used a 15 amp in line fuse holder and soldered it in line, heat shrunk it and covered with the liquid tape.

I took the wrap off the wire bundle that holds the green starter wire and exposed a section of the wire to connect to. Maybe 8 inches from the end of the starter wire.

I wrapped my green wire to the exposed section and soldered.

Covered with the liquid tape then electric tape.

Put the wrap back around the wires used a hand full of cable ties on all the wires. Hooked the black wire I ran to the negative side of the battery, put the gas tank back on and fired her up. So good so far.
I use liquid tape for a little more protection from water. With the electric problems with the Big Dog it sure can't hurt.
When cutting the wires under the tank you end up with two exposed black wires and two green wires that aren't used that go to the EHC connector. I put heat shrink tubing on the ends of the green wires and liquid taped them. I didn't do anything to the black wires.
When soldiering wires I use a low heat pencil soldiering gun and electronic solder.
I made my connection to the starter wire in the wrap so the connection wasn't exposed to water or whatever.
Here is a link to my original thread.
http://www.bigdogbiker.com/threads/...unk-from-my-starter-is-there-a-problem.73644/
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