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Bad Starter?

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I can speak from personal experience. On my 85 GS550L, I had the starter professionally (yeah, sure) rebuilt. When I got it back, it spunt the wrong direction. All I had to do was to flip the case end for end, and all was cool again. Since then, I scribed a mark on the case and on each end cap, if the marks don't line up right, I know the case is in backward.
 
And yes, sadly I too can now speak from experience, there was nothing wrong but a starter spinning in the wrong direction.
 
I am thankful for this post.

I brought my bike in to a mechanic which I've never done before simply because I have three kids, we are moving and I don't have the time to work on the bike - I'd rather be riding it. I wanted my "starter clutch" problem resolved, a tune up, a few other odds and ends that I've done before. My mechanic has a GS1100E, so I figure he's the lesser of a few evils.

I read this post (I posted about 5 days ago) and called the mechanic to suggest that perhaps the starter was working in reverse. He laughed and said he'd never seen that before - he was certain it was a starter clutch problem. I told him to bench test the starter before opening the case. He was skeptical, but agreed to do this - figured he'd charge me extra to get the starter out, so why would he complain.

Sure enough, the starter cranked in reverse. When I went in to pick it up (to take it back to the rebuilder), the mechanic had his entire staff sitting around a vice holding my starter wondering what the hell was going on as my polarity was correct, etc. None of these guys had seen anything like it and were laughing out loud about the "possessed starter". I became concerned that so many GS'ers seemed to have this experience but these crusty looking mechanics were absolutely enthralled by this.

I picked it up and took it to the rebuilder who said it was a simple mistake and would have my working starter back the next day.

ANDY
 
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