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  1. Technical Help Forum
    Hello, first time poster, long time reader. Problem: Starter barely turns over the motor - sounds completely toasted, and have managed to start the bike only a few times, but once it starts, seems to run fine. The bike: 82 cx500c. Rae san ignition, Motogadget everything, Ricks Rectifier...
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    Lot of Good Used CX500 Parts for Sale - all or nothing: $150 firm + shipping from zip 28613 These extra parts came with my recently acquired CX500 Turbo but are mostly for regular CX500s: 1. (3) Valve covers 2. High tone horn (Honda #38110-GT8-621). Tested and works. 3. Starter (tested and...
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  3. Technical Help Forum
    Might be a dumb question but I’ve looked and couldn’t find out by searching - where this black wire off the starter go? And does the negative terminal from the battery go straight to ground?
  4. Technical Help Forum
    I'm trying to figure out why my GL500 doesn't have any juice despite having a healthy battery, and this is the first culprit (among possible others): This is the fuse on the starter solenoid next to the battery box. it was just a simple strip of metal, which disintegrated with age (no sign of...
  5. Technical Help Forum
    Hi everyone, brand new here and my first post! I bought a 1980 CX500 yesterday and I'll be doing a cafe racer build with it over the winter. My new bike had been sitting for 5 or 6 years when I bought it and I knew there was going to be some serious work to do. So I changed the oil, oil filter...
  6. Technical Help Forum
    Hello everyone I’m having an issue where when I press the starter to try and start the bike nothing happens. I’m getting a click every now and then from my starter relay (it’s new) but nothing else is happening. Wondering if it could be a ignition thing or starter motor. I have banged the...
  7. Technical Help Forum
    I have a 79’ cx500 that I restored last summer. Countless fixes later and it ran and rode like new! Until the other night when I stalled out on me and would not turn over again. I tried pop starting it while I coasted down the street at about 35-40 mph. Locked up the rear and didn’t even try to...
  8. Technical Help Forum
    Hello, I'm working on a 1982 CX500 I picked up a couple months ago. It was running when I got it but then didn't run after a month of not working on it. While diagnosing the issue, I've been turning the engine with no problems. It started with starting fluid and then sputtered and died since it...
  9. Technical Help Forum
    I should have photos and more information later today when I push my bike home from a parking garage downtown (not too excited for that adventure) but I just tried starting my bike and when I hit the ignition, a clicking noise came from the switch assembly/fuse area, and then nothing else...
  10. Technical Help Forum
    The bike's been running beautifully. I hopped on it yesterday to run to the store and about a mile into the ride, the bike sputtered out. The engine started cutting out like I wasn't giving it enough throttle, then it died. I noticed I hadn't turned on the petcock, so I flipped it to reserve and...
  11. Technical Help Forum
    My '82 GL500 often won't crank when I press the starter button. When this happens, here are the symptoms: 1. When I press the starter button, the headlight dims 2. When I press the starter button, there is a subtle click down near the starter (NOT at the solenoid) 3. Sometimes squeezing the...
  12. General Discussion
    Hi, I am having an issue with a bike I got off a friend. I thought I had wired it up correctly, but apparently not when I hit the start button it turns the light on and off. It sounds like a simple fix but I can't find it out. It also has a new CDI starter from regulatorrectifier.com I don't...
  13. Technical Help Forum
    Hi, I need to get an old CX started but the electrics are all dismantled. I've got the original loom (albeit shredded) so it's a case of reconnecting. I've started highlighting what I think is need to get it started and see if it turns over but please let me know what I've missed as I'm sure...
  14. Technical Help Forum
    Greetings! Newbie here, both to this forum and Honda street bikes. Grew up with Honda; QA-50, Z-50, CT70, SL70, you get it. So my friend purchased this bike, a 1983 GL650i (Burgundy) from a gentleman in Canada for what the thought to be a fair/bargain price-it did not run. No problem-"my friend...
  15. Technical Help Forum
    In the prcoess of rebuilding my starter motor one of the rusted side bolts which hold the motor together sheared off. Luckily I managed to screw the remainder of it out with patience and a pair of vice grips but now I'm a bolt down and having trouble finding a replacement. Does anyone know the...
  16. Technical Help Forum
    My father gifted me his '83 GL650I, which has sat unused pretty much since 1998. I am just starting the process of restoring the bike (successfully cleaned the carbs and got the engine to start), but I've run into a snag. I replaced the old battery with a 12-volt AGM, but the new battery died on...
  17. Technical Help Forum
    My headlight and starter button are going in and out. Kind of have to fiddle with the starter button to get it to respond. Pretty sure I need to thoroughly clean the contacts inside. I've opened it up before and blasted it with contact cleaner, but never disassembled and fully cleaned/greased...
  18. Technical Help Forum
    Hi All, I am just finishing up a rewire and I am following the wiring diagram that I found here as close as possible. But it appears that the power to the bike from the battery is in the wrong position. From the diagram it just connects to one of the terminals on the solenoid (and not the...
  19. Technical Help Forum
    The starter on my 81 CX500C gave up the ghost early on a long road trip last August. A Honda shop cleaned it up and put in new brushes and etc. I also replaced the starter relay solenoid. The starter fired up after that and kept me going for the next 6000 miles of the trip. But somewhere along...
  20. Technical Help Forum
    Hey guys, I'm new to the forum and I've never really worked on a bike except for the time I replaced my radiator and fan. My 81 CX500d is my first bike. About a year ago, my bike quit out on me while driving to work when I ran out of gas and it never fired up again. There aren't any Honda...
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