it just goes "click"

[3imo]

hey LX ...Wanna rumble?   

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~~hhhm...high school memories.~~

SRSLY, though emmajoe. (hey that rhymes  )  describe your clicking.

[Emmajoe]

it is just one click. well, it push started fine,  and the switch is giving me the single click. I tried connecting the starter to the battery and melted the cables I used, I've rechecked all the connections and still no go. bad starter maybe?

[3imo]

not just yet.

what is clicking, or where, actually.  maybe you will need someone to help you hit the start button while you determine where the click is comming from.

also recheck the connector that goes to the battery neg.

is the engine properly grounded?

[LimaXray]

When you tried to test the starter, did you use wire for both terminals?  Depending on what gauge wire you used, melting the wires is probably normal.

Find your starter relay and push the starter button and see if that is what clicks. 

If so, do what I said before, get a multimeter and see if you can messure 12v between the heavy black wire that goes from the relay to the starter and the (+) terminal of the battery.  Then, push the starter button and see if you can measure 12v between the same wire and the (-) terminal of the battery. 

Would it run if the engine wasn't well grounded? While you have the multimeter out, stick one probe on the (+) terminal on the battery and poke around the engine with the other and see if you can measure 12v.

It is possible your starter is fubar, but it wouldn't be my first guess.  Check all of its connections first.

[Emmajoe]

ok, it's properly grounded. I get 12v from different parts of the engine and the frame. I get 12v from the black out of the relay, to the possitive, but I do not get 12v when I switch to the negitive terminal and engage the start botton. now what?

[LimaXray]

hmmm well thats deff not what I was expecting... pull out the relay, and see if you get 12v from any of the terminals in the relay socket and ground when you are NOT pushing the button.   There should be another heavy line (like the one that goes to the starter) that goes to the battery/fuse holder that should always have 12v.... If not, it's the connection between the relay and the fuse holder.  If so, it's the relay.

[Emmajoe]

Thanks so much for the help( ), but help doesn't work on a complete idiot
All this time, I had it wired wrong. When I put the bike back, together I ran the black cable that would normaly go to the starter relay to the negitive terminal of the battery instead.  The black rubber hood through me off, it was the one wire I didn't label because I thought I'd rebember where it went. after three days of frustration, it started first try. I learned a bit more about my bike though. Thanks again for the help, I'll post picks of the new painjob soon.

[RVertigo]

 

Glad to hear it!

[3imo]

yay!!!