Upgrade and maintain your motorcycle’s starter to avoid Harley starter problems

The condition and mode in which motorcycles come out of the showroom isn’t the one which lasts for years on the road, nor is it the best one for an enjoyable and carefree ride. You thus need to customize your bikes and gear them up for the road to either enhance their performance or to replace faulty or worn out parts. Getting motorcycle parts that are just the right fit for your bike and blending them perfectly with the overall body and mechanism is a must since even the slightest defect can have drastic consequences. Hence it becomes essential to purchase and install best in class motorcycle parts such as silencers, spark plugs, bulbs, clutch, exhaust, brake shoes, starter drives, starters, side mirrors, and so forth.

Whether your motorcycle has an electric starter, kick starter or both, you require a starter to get the machine ignited. The starter takes much power to get the engine to crank over. The starter alone cannot turn the engine over so a big starter gear is utilized to help the process. All the power comes through a specially devised solenoid switch as a safety feature to handle a large amount of amperage required for the starter.

Aftermarket motorcycle starters often meet or surpass OE specs, but some do not. The starter needs to be made with high-quality parts to stay in working order. Low-quality wiring, casing and copper windings can play havoc on the motorcycle’s electrical system. A well-made aftermarket starter will have a quality terminal, wiring, brushes, and copper windings.

Rebuild Starter Motors Or Replace Them Due to Harley starter problems

It is likely to rebuild nearly every starter motor in use on a Harley motorcycle or ATV, but before you begin, it’s best to do a little research. Checking at stores locally and you may find that a starter motor for your machine is relatively inexpensive. If that’s the case, it is hardly meriting the effort of taking apart an ailing starter motor even to figure out what may have gone awry. If your replacement starter motor is on the pricey facet, look deeper to see what replacement parts are available to you. Often you can reinstate the brushes, but if you have a bad armature and can’t get one, you’ll be substituting the whole starter anyhow.

All starter motors trail a similar design, with a few exceptions according to use and specific brands. Individual specifications, such as armature coil resistance, commutator diameter, and brush length will deviate from each different starter motor, so use the specs for your particular machine as the final guide when you’re examining the motor of your Harley vehicle. If you find it a failed state, then you definitely have Harley starter problems and either need to get the current one repaired or a new one installed.

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