Recent content by 60ratrod

final update? so i ordered the brushes, and of course they had to be the wrong ones. but i didn't find that out until i yanked the starter out after doing some metering to see if there was a voltage drop. i tell you what, that thing was gnarly inside of it. so after cleaning the crud out and...

so the mcct didn't help with the cranking speed. and now the battery cable terminals are getting really hot, so I'm thinking that it's the brushes as previously mentioned. I would say it might be corrosion, but back in December I went through every single connection in the start circuit...

gordonian, I suspected the battery at first, but I took it back to the battery store and there they verified the battery is good, and showed me with their tester unit that it had 150cca. and the battery had sat inside, off charger, over night.

yngvim, go a head and throw those p/n's at me! it'll be useful to have if the mcct doesn't help. I might just pull the starter off and clean it too. I also think I need to look into the decompressor pin on the exhaust cam since they're known to be weak on the early 400's/450's.

long time since I last updated, but I haven't really had time to work on this fix-n-flip project since I last posted. anyway, after some research, I did see that if the cam chain is too tight, then it'll be hard to start. and the last time that I had the head cover off, I noticed there was NO...

you guys would know more than me. that's why I asked and will look into the cr250 cage

so my ec400 never came with a filter or the cage. I ordered a filter for it, but it's just kinda stuffed in there for the moment since I don't have the cage for it. I've looked on ebay and haven't been able to find the cage. where can I get a filter cage? it drives me nuts when I have to do...

i confirmed the battery is good today. i took it off the bike and tender last night and left it sit inside on my plastic tool box over night and went back to pacific power batteries to have it tested. it had 12.76 resting vdc and 150 cca with their testers. so i yanked the cam cover and...

i don't think it's the battery cause it's brand new as of late october, agm, and was sitting inside for all of november and was only reinstalled after getting a new r/r almost 2 weeks ago and has been sitting with a tender since install. maybe it just doesn't have the cca that the bike needs.

so i'm having little luck finding an answer using the search function here on this. dead cold my ec400 will crank, but there seems to be something taking the battery's cca away from the starter unless i jump start it with either my truck or my battery charger/tender(the tender has a 2a...

i think i found a replacement. looks like vespas and piaggio scooters used them. found this out by using the manufacturer's pn bme 02. i'll let you know how it works out

so with this being my introductory thread, i bought an 02 ec400 off of one of my friends for $200, since he is moving from here in washington to virginia on new orders here in a month or two and had it stop running on him. he said it was a fuel pump issue, so with some research here on this...