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Could Use Some Electrical Help...

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wheeler
So for as long as I've owned my Honda 300 it's given me problems starting. All my mods are in my sig, so you can see what I have...

IF it's left outside overnite and temps are around freezing or very chilly the quad will barely turn over. I need to kick it. Fires up 1st kick.

IF it's left for days or weeks without starting in a heated garage, it's a crap shoot if it will fire up or if I need to kick it.. bur way better than if it was left out overnite. Always first kick it's running.

IF I have to kick it because the battery won't fire it up, & I run the quad for a little bit or hours, it will always fire right up with the battery.

I had installed a new battery over a year ago thinking it was the culprit, however it continued to do the same thing.

I do have the winch wired up to the aux pink wires direct. it's not with key power.



I'm leaning towards the rectifier?? I remember a while back I tried to check the voltage while cranking & was getting something like 7v, but while running it was 13v or 14v if memory serves me correct...


I would love some advice so I can check some things before I just start throwing $$ at it replacing parts!!!!!

Thanks in advance!
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Retro , put you on a good trick using the compression lever with the electric starter , I have had 300's for 10 years now and never knew about that trick till last year , in the woods and the battery was weak and wouldn't turn the bike over , engaged the decompression lever and it fired right up -------- only thing is your bike needs to be in tune and start easy , as you only get one shot at it cause the decompression lever jump off when the engine starts turning

TBC , brought up an interesting thing , I take it as changing the starter reduction gears to a BigRed 250 ( which I would call a ATC250ES ) will change the ratio , makes sense to me , I had a 250ES and don't remember it having a decompression lever and the TRX250A don't have a decompression lever either , maybe those gears are the same as the 250ES

Wheeler , I have a half dozen TRX250A engines and would give you a set of starter gears if that would help you to start easier
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I have had trouble with the ground cable where it hooks to the bolt which holds the starter in , bad connection at that spot , or even take the starter out and sand the area where it touches the crankcase and where the bolts go thru the tabs at the rear of the starter
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Wheeler , I went to the shed for you and Shade , I dug out a 86 TRX250A and pulled the stater reduction gears , cleaned them off and found one was a broke off tooth , but to add insult to injury ----in the mean time , I looked up the reduction gears of the 96 300,
86 250A and the 86 ATC250ES and all have the number of teeth listed and they are all the same , 25T x 43/18T and 21T , so there is no gear reduction gain on any of those years and models , maybe a 85

Tennessee Boy , what year and model would he need

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