[smokey9lives]

I'm having trouble getting my 250x started after being away for a few months. It would turn over fine but not start. I drained and replaced the gas, put in a new plug and a new air filter. Still no starting so I started going through the electrical tests that are recommended in the manual and found that the kill switch was bad but he bike would still turn over when the starter button was pushed.

Is it normal for the bike to turn over with a faulty kill switch?

I purchased a new perch mount billet kill switch and I have connected it and tested for continuity when the button is pressed and it is OK. Now the bike will not turn over at all. I did remove the stock connectors that had the 3 wires (one from the clutch switch, and two from kill switch) and replaced them with blade connectors and reconnected all of them.

Do I need to ground the billet switch in some other way? The OEM kill switch had the ground connected to the kill switch clamp and the new one is just aluminum clamped on the bars with 2 wires coming out of it.

Any ideas on what to look at next to get it to turn over?

Thanks!

[JimDirt]

Welcome to the site !!

Sorry for the delayed reply , just noticed this post

My guess is you disconnected the Clutch Safety Switch , what you need to do is connect it back to the clutch lever , or connect the 2 wires together bypassing the switch altogether , with the switch bypassed , the bike will start without the clutch being pulled in and if the bike is in gear it will jump forward and possibly take off , so keep that in mind if going that route

The kill switch itself should have 2 wires , 1 incoming and the other outgoing , the incoming comes from the ignition , the outgoing goes directly to ground , the Black/White and Black/Green go to the kill switch (Black/Green is the ground) , the 3rd wire is Black/Brown it goes to the Clutch Switch along with the Black/Red wire (Black/Brown goes to the Starter Switch) ...... Hope that helps ...... Again sorry for the delayed reply ...

[smokey9lives]

Thanks for the insights! I'll bypass the clutch switch and see how it goes.

[JimDirt]

No problem , keep us informed of the results