Sore, cheap, cold and lazy. estart bypass?

[tri again]

I have 2 kickstart 250 hondas that have been butchered wirewise but run great .

Is there any easy way to just hook up some pushbutton to short out the solenoid so I don't have to kick them ?

They start with 1 to 3 kicks but that still hurts too much.

Thanks and yes, I will prob get new harnesses for the springtime fix
but verything is frozen and not fun to work on for more than a couple minutes these days.

[trike savior]

assuming you still have original solenoid. positive wire to a momentary switch. wire from switch to solenoid. stock solenoid has 2 wires on it, does not matter which, but 1 needs positive from switch and other needs ground. normally grounds through neutral switch, just run to battery negative.

if original solenoid is gone. run an 8 gauge wire from battery to starter. cut wire somewhere accessible and install a heavy duty switch, available at auto parts store. obviously you need ground going to engine as well

[just ben]

If the solenoid is missing or junk you can get Chinese replacements for about 8 bucks on ebay.

[danbur55]

When you get ready for harness I have an 85 250es complete let me know make offer plus ship. Thanks

[oscarmayer]

all you gotta do is take a dip switch and connect the positive battery side cable to it, and the other side to the starter. flip the switch and the start moves. it if does not, then your starter is toast.

[tri again]

Thanks everyone.
Both starters do work, one with new brushes but that's as far as I made it.

I printed the wire diagram so maybe just a momentary sw to one of the solenoid wires.
and thanks to danbur.
Not sure what they sell for but certainly want it to be fair.
Is yours from an sx or es? oops, just saw es.
Connectors intact?
Whomever cut these up didn't notice that within inches of their cuts were CONNECTORS!

Oh well.

[kb0nly]

Make sure you put your momentary switch for the starter in the ground side of the solenoid wiring. All you really need is the larger battery cable to the solenoid, then the cable from the solenoid to the starter, take one of the smaller wires from the solenoid and connect to the battery positive, you can even do this at the solenoid by connecting one of the small wires to the battery side of the solenoid. Better yet though get a fuse holder and put a fuse inline from one of the small wires to the battery cable side. Then run the other small wire to your push button momentary switch, if you still have the start switch up on the handlebar control use that otherwise just a cheap pushbutton switch will work, the other side of that momentary switch goes to the frame as ground or the battery negative.

And that doesnt surprise me how the wiring got chopped, seen stuff like that plenty of times.