VT500 won't bloody start!!

[i.p.phrealy]

So, after blowing up the previous engine and installing one from Smegballs the fecker won't start.
I thought it was the battery at first, so I borrowed a set of jump leads and tried that.
nothing.
All the other electrics work, indicators, lights, horn, the rad fan (it was on a bypass switch).
but press the button, not even a click. it doesn't turn over.
the bike is in neutral, the neutral light is on, it has fresh plugs, it has oil. I checked all the fuses and they're all good.
Dafuq do I do now?

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it is impossible to lick your own elbow...
and if you just tried you need professional help.
Finally allowed a big bike 19/03/14!

[Taught2BCauti...]

Check the stand switch?

Do you have a resistance (in ohms) between the starter live terminal and earth?
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[i.p.phrealy]

[Pete.]

Your problem is not that the engine is not starting - it's that the engine is not cranking. If it cranks it may well start.

Hit it with the basics. Large cable goes from the battery to the solenoid then from the solenoid to the starter. So the solenoid has two large terminals next to each other. Make sure the bike is out of gear and short them with an old spanner. Does the bike now crank?

If yes, you have a starter control circuit issue.

If no, you have a fault in the starter or you have left the heavy earth off the engine.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[i.p.phrealy]

[Pete.]

I'd fit the starter off the old engine. Sounds like yours is faulty
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[doggone]

Or stuck.
Try the big hammer at it.

[temeluchus]

if you are really lucky, the rings are rusted to the bores. Have fun.
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Some shite cruiser. Now with guns and FREEDOM!

[i.p.phrealy]

[i.p.phrealy]

didn't need the hammer, took the starter motor off, attached it to jump leads then touched them to my car battery and the starter spun up line a good un.
hmmm...
more time next weekend to see what's up with it. it's the only free weekend I have this side of christmas.
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it is impossible to lick your own elbow...
and if you just tried you need professional help.
Finally allowed a big bike 19/03/14!

[temeluchus]

How to the brushes look? Have you checked the windings?
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Some shite cruiser. Now with guns and FREEDOM!

[i.p.phrealy]