150cc gy6 No Start By kountryguy (Read 683 times)

[kountryguy]

I have a SSR Pacifica 150 that will not start electrically. It started 3 times yesterday and them the fourth time, nothing. I kick started it and drove it home. I noticed that when I turn the ignition switch on, the digital clock goes off. When I turn off the ignition switch, the clock comes back on and resets to 12:00. I am thinking it may be a bad ignition switch. Any thoughts?

[czmdiver]

Check/clean up the ground strap from the engine to the frame an the ground from the battery to frame..

[kz1000st]

Replace the battery. The fact that everything goes dead is a giveaway that the voltage dropped out. You just got lucky the other times. Batteries sign off when they feel like it, especially little seven amp units.

[jhare]

Grab a multimeter and start testing. Could be battery, could be a bad ground somewhere, or maybe even there's a short somewhere in the wiring. Sometimes wire sheaths will rub off and two wires or wire to metal will be in contact, so once you turn the ignition switch it can be shorted out by another wire or metal touching it.

Also, when the ignition switch is turn ON do other electrical stuff work? Lights, horn, indicator lights, etc.?  If yes move on to checklist below, if not check battery voltage and replace if necessary or charge. 

This would be my process:

-Examine the ignition switch wire and see if there's continuity. Also physically examine the wire and follow it, check to see if the sheath is rubbed off and the exposed wire is in contact with something shorting it out,
-Test battery voltage to determine condition,
-Check all grounds,
-Determine good continuity throughout electrical wiring and check condition of wires.