I've got three of the 750mA models, one of them simply "quit" over the winter, no little light, no voltage output, no nuthin'....

She sure is Purty!

Starter should zip right along real good on the bench, I'm thinking the brushes are worn out and it doesn't have enough torque to do anything in the bike except draw a ton of power. Needs to come back out and get opened up for inspection..... Local automotive alternator/starter rebuilder shop can pr...

Probably need a good deal of TLC to get it going, but appears to be a complete bike. I'd say worth $250, you could easily recover that parting it out if the engine was toast. 'Wing engines are pretty bullet-proof, likelihood of it being toast is small.

Down below the oil fill cap.

Jumpering the first one triggers the second one, so looks like the second one is OK. If the first one by the battery clicks when you hit the start button but no starter might need to replace the one by the battery.

Might also check to see if loosening the gas cap restores normal running. If gas cap vents get plugged you can form a vacuum in the tank and the pump can't overcome the vacuum to push fuel. Fix for that is to soak the gas cap in Seafoam overnight.....

You can let all the air out of the tire to get a little more clearance, too.

If it turns out the drain holes are OK you may have degraded spark plug caps or wires.

Some evening after dark try wetting them down with a spray bottle with the engine running and look for sparks snapping around where they shouldn't....

Oh, no, I wasn't even suggesting making a hard connection to household pressure, just pointing the end of the garden hose into the heater hose and hold them together by hand.

Good that you warned against a hard connection, though!

Have you tried disconnecting heater hoses from the engine and putting a garden hose to one of the heater hoses? Water from the garden hose should come out the other heater hose....

Save the old one. Famous failure in '97-'00 wings, if that's an OEM alternator. Honda switched from Japanese to Chinese supplier. There's a "How-to" for fixing the rotor when you get home....

I also have one of those wheeled quad Jack things, that most of the pictures in this thread are of, mine is a moto master, I think. I haven't used it in like 5 years, and I would give it to the first forum member who passed through I dislike it so much. If you have a nice table lift, why would you ...

Good you found a shop. Even though "whacking" the alternator might have got it going, that's a band-aid at best. Shop should fix it right.

On the other forum someone suggested finding a local starter/alternator rebuilder. Probably your cheapest/fastest option if one's around. Have you tried giving the alternator a smart "Whack" with a hammer? Not hard enough to break anything, just get it's attention real good. Sometimes somewhat worn ...

"Sinks" and "Sponges" belong in the kitchen, not carburetor bowls.

That oil should be just fine!

Not many OEM parts still available, but Cyclemax and many other places can get you what OEM stuff still remaining for 1100.

I got mine for changing the rear tire, with trailer hitch on it you have to get it pretty far up in the air to get the rear wheel out. Haven't had cause to use it on the bike for anything else yet. I did use it and two floor jacks and three jackstands to get the right front of Girlfriend's Pontiac h...

So glad to hear that's all it was! Years ago I was working on a Mitsubishi Starion that had blown the bearings and seals on the turbocharger. Muffler and Catalytic converter (not to mention the intake side of the engine) just full of oil. Took many days of just running the engine a few mins at a tim...

Ya, saw that.
I wouldn't, either.

Looked more at the HF site, looks like they don't have the one like in the video anymore. Wonder why?

Nope, that looks flimsy too.

This one.

Stock alternator is only 40 Amps max output at full revs. Even fully excited at idle RPM bike consumes slightly more than the alt can put out at low speed. It's not that it isn't putting anything out at all. Doesn't take much of an RPM increase off-idle for the voltage output to come up. Just don't ...

Roger the elevation, going up some of the high mountain roads you can actually boil over at normal operating temp if your radiator cap is questionable. That wasn't the case in Colorado Springs though, the fan simply wasn't working and the engine was getting hot at stoplights. Once I got the fan goin...

Harbor Freight has two different motorcycle lifts, a flimsy one (the one in the video) which is absolute junk, and the one I have, which has 1 1/2" square steel frame and lift arms instead of the channel steel frame and bar stock lift arms shown. Actually quite sturdy. And oddly enough, they sell bo...