#1: Automotive Solenoid Swap
Author: pmprogrammer, Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:01
am
A Tech Help
post back in August talks about using a Duralast F492 automotive solenoid
on your Virago and the problems you'll encounter doing it:
If you don't want to spend $50 or so for the Yamaha part, here's
an automotive solenoid you can find at many local auto parts jobbers that
works really well for about $25.
I put an Echlin ST43 from NAPA
auto parts on my '82 Virago 920 - see pic: http://viragotechforum.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=450
.
To use this part, you will have to modify your cable ends (the
small ones and the big ones) because the terminal posts on the Echlin part
are bigger than those of the OEM Yamaha part.
You can either drill
out the holes to make them big enough to fit over the larger terminals or
do like I did and clamp and solder bigger terminals over the existing ones
and use heat-shrink tubing to keep it covered (see close-up: http://viragotechforum.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=452
).
Another thing I did was to bend the corners of the metal base
of this solenoid up to avoid it making contact with the engine case or
cooling fins. I did check this metal base with an ohmmeter to see if it
was connected to any of the terminals and it appeared not to be, but with
the corners bent up and the solenoid zip-tied to the battery tray it
doesn't touch metal anyway.
The Echlin solenoid is too big to fit
in the rubber mount from the OEM Yamaha part, so I zip-tied the solenoid
into the arms where the rubber keeper normally would attach.
Works
great and it's small enough to hide behind the side cover ( http://viragotechforum.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=451
).
PM
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