50 cc GY6 starting problems By ronb (Read 3,654 times)

[Alleyoop]

The switch and lights work like on my TRIKE. ALL the way to the right all the lights are OFF, in the middle the running lights come on and the instrument lights come on ALL the way to the LEFT the headlights come on and YES ALL YOUR LIGHTS are run off the BATTERY. So when you start it the only lights are your stop lights when you squeeze the brake handle.

So it appears yours is like mine the only thing the R/R is really doing is charging the battery which is nice. My battery is always at 14.5 even at IDLE(WITH THE HEADLIGHTS OFF).
Alleyoop

[JR]

Aug 14, 2015 10:17:45 GMT -6 ronb said:

Hi JR,

I said Boreal in my post and not Bolero. Looking at the manual, mine is indeed an FY50QT-5. everything is identical. Thanks to you after six years of ownership I have a manual.

As far as the light switch goes. Till the switch broke . the headlights would not come on when I started the scooter. I had to flip the switch. However when the switch broke and I glued the ball to left most position it started to come on automatically . In Quebec cars must have their headlights on all the time.

News to me also, according to the manual I don't have a kill switch. The only kill switch on the scooter is on the kick stand.

By the way , yesterday before I started the scoot I removed the headlight bulb so that it would not drain battery power. I can't tell whether it is because of that , new battery and new plug or some other reason the crank force seemed much stronger.

Should I still leave the ball where it is ?
Should I order the switch previously mentioned ?

www.ebay.com/itm/Scooter-Left-Right-Handle-Switch-Control-Assembly-GY6-50cc-125cc-150cc-Moped-/191659209547?hash=item2c9fc7734b&vxp=mtr

Thanks again

Yes I would order this switch assembly kit because you do not have a handlebar kill switch so the plug is 4-pin not 6-pin like the one with the kill switch, it should be plug and play.

As far as knowing for sure if the lights run off the battery it's easy to test. Leave the ball in until you get your new switch, install the switch then turn the key on, if you put it in the head light on position and the headlights come on then yes they run off of the battery, if they only will work with it running then you know they run off the R/R? Again some of the older scooters had a on/off headlight switch even if the headlights ran off of the R/R, they are not built like that any more.

JR