All the honda 50 owners, here is some information you need to know.
. Keep you ground and postive cables very clean of build up. do not take your battery cable off the engine while it is running. Nor do you want to turn your dual battery switch to off.These actions will cause you to burn up your altenator windings. cost about 110.00. Re quires you to remove fly wheel to replace. If your tach stops working on the honda 50 that means you are not charging the battery. You can tell if you burt the windings by a visaul inspection looking at the windings under the fly wheel after removing the cover. Also the bolts in the fly wheel must be replaced, you are not to reuse the factory bolts. They are a special bolt that must be thrown away once removed.
Mark Chamberlain wrote:All the honda 50 owners, here is some information you need to know.
. Keep you ground and postive cables very clean of build up. do not take your battery cable off the engine while it is running. Nor do you want to turn your dual battery switch to off.These actions will cause you to burn up your altenator windings. cost about 110.00. Re quires you to remove fly wheel to replace. If your tach stops working on the honda 50 that means you are not charging the battery. You can tell if you burt the windings by a visaul inspection looking at the windings under the fly wheel after removing the cover. Also the bolts in the fly wheel must be replaced, you are not to reuse the factory bolts. They are a special bolt that must be thrown away once removed.
I would never think about taking battery power off an engine while it was running, regardless of the vehicle. It can potentially cause havoc on all motors.
Many bolts on engines can not be re-used. Not unusual.
This is one reason I did not install a 1-2-both-none switch. I used 3 separate switches (cluster). 2 stay on all the time, one is a parallel switch. Never ever have to touch them in daily use. Plus the beauty is both batteries charge without touching the switch. It is a win-win. I can think of no reason to use one battery switch to control 2 batteries - too easy to induce user error. One senior moment can cause problems like you experienced.
I have almost done the same thing several times Mark, sorry it happened to you. I have a Honda 50, so your tach not working symptom is a great tip....... hopefully I will stay lucky and not make the mistake. Thanks for posting, it will help many others!
I just got in the Altenator windis, re placed them in about 30 min, tack works now and headed out to Valdez Alaska for another week of fishing and just killing time. cost of the ciols was 99.00. a costly lesson learned.
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