Well my new starter brushes arrived on Tuesday, so tonight I thought I would replace the worn out ones in my starter motor.
I thought about doing a video on how this is done and mentioned it in another post to gauge interest, but no response to that so I went ahead and did it anyway.
The photo below shows the part needed and unlike me only order one of these, I ordered two and got two sets of brushes or enough to do two starter motors. Maybe I should buy another VF1000 with a crook starter?
My issue with the starter was that it would start the bike reluctantly when cold, but simply refused to do anything more than turn the motor half a revolution when hot.
I should make it perfectly clear now that I have not taken the bike for a ride to test the hot starting part of the problem, but since swapping the brushes the motor now turns over three times faster than it ever did.
If my seat was back from the trimmer, I would test it but sadly not yet.
This would have to be the best $18 (one set) I have spent for a long time.
Well Done Tony.
I also have done a couple of starter motors (one for spare) and have found that buying the kit from E bay gives you bearings springs and base plate as well for nearly the same price, and the difference was amazing.
the first one i did was brushes only and the base plate and one of the springs had been heated to extreme causing premature failure, need to be sure to remove all carbon deposits too.
Cheers.
nice one tony, took me three attempts at cleaning plus new brushes to finally get my dodgy starter to work properly when hot… probably because i didn’t do it right first time :-\
Thanks guys, I should have mentioned that I completely dismantled the starter, chucked it up in the lathe and turned the commutator to clean it up before testing with a multimeter, making sure the grooves between the commutator bars were clean, checked the bearings which looked and felt fairly new and made sure the springs had plenty of tension.
I agree Paul, I could have got all those bits for about $40 delivered but I preferred to use the genuine Honda brushes and hopefully it will pay off in the long run.
Tony
“nice one tony, took me three attempts at cleaning plus new brushes to finally get my dodgy starter to work properly when hot… probably because i didn’t do it right first time”
I will find out if my rebuild was successful once I get my seat back and take it for a ride.
This could be the first of three rebuilds too Pete. :-\
Well it’s passed the first test, 55km ride to work this morning and after I stopped I tried the starter and there was no detectable difference in cranking speed.
I feel that my starter rebuild has been a success.
Now to chase that elusive misfire!
