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Electric Start '80 1100 GSL

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For starts I'm sorry if this question has already been answered but I couldn't find what I am looking for.... here we go. My push button of my ignition hasn't been working 100% of the time. I usually have to jiggle the wires and turn the steering in different directions until the bike finally kicked on. Well today I may have gotten a little over zealous and removed the housing and ended up cutting the wires off the harness. I had planned on replacing with a toggle switch to bypass the rocker and electric push start. The wires are 2 (orange and white) and 1 (green and yellow) I'm not sure which wires go to the terminals on new toggle switch (power) (accessory) and (ground). Also, the new toggle is a 20 amp, not sure if that matters. Wishing I never messed with it in the first place bc now I cant ride her. Thanks for any input! Jeremy
 
".....Well today I may have gotten a little over zealous "

Indeed. it would have been better to bypass/jump wiring at solenoid itself and not mess with switch. Even better to correct problem inside switch!

Go here and look for suitable and readable wiring diagram
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff
 
First, when you say pushbutton ignition, I assume you mean the start motor pushbutton (and the kill switch)

And sometimes the starter button is the problem or... often (if was still stock) maybe the problem is not the start button, but is the clutch interlock switch which if often the problem.

But anyway (looking at 82 GS850 schematic):
- the orange/white (from fuse) wire is the "hot" that goes to the kill sw.
- and then a jumper from kill swtich to the start button and to the another org/wht wire that goes back out power the ignition)
- the yel/grn from the starter button
(that yel/grn goes to clutch interlock, and then another yel/grn from clutch interlock is what goes to the solenoid)

So you will have to figure out which org/wht wire is the one from the fuse (the one that has power on it) and which is the one that goes to the ignition.
 
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Thanks for the responses. I ended up soldering the connections for the push start/cut-off toggle. Turns out it was the clutch interlock switch.. I ended up taking both green/yellow wires leading to clutch and tying them together to bypass the clutch safety mechanism. Thanks again.
 
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