Starter Button Repair

Well, the starter button on my 500 has not been right since I got it running. It would not return to the run position after starting the engine. I assumed that the spring was either weak or had failed. Some of you guys had posted that it is not the spring that fails, but the plastic pivot pins on the button that break off. I should have listened. I somehow received some motivation to take the thing apart this evening....sure enough....tab on which the spring rides had broken off. What to do. From somewhere came a flicker of inspiration. I drilled a hole through the center of the broken pin and also through the button body and remaining pin. I inserted a length of stiff wire which fit snugly in the drilled hole in the button body, gobbed on some JB and slipped the broken pin over the wire. After allowing a reasonable curing time, I trimmed the excess JB off the pin. Reassembled the switch, seems to work OK. How long it will last remains to be seen.

 

Well done glad you got it fix, these part hard to find.

 

good luck with the fix. I hope it holds up.

if it doesn;t start looking for a newer set of controls. I swapped the controls on the 84 500 I have to f2 controls.

I also swapped the clutch master to a 5th gen vfr unit

 

Had this happen to me too. But you drilled THRU the broken pin, the body, AND the remaining pin? WTF, McGuyver? HOW did you drill thru that small-arse broken pin? With a straight pin?!!

You have got some kinda steady hands and eyes for that stuff. I gotta hear how you did this. Good idea, I suppose, but even if I HAD the thought to try some crazy-arse thing like that, the very next thought would have been "Um...how you gonna actually DO that, Genius??" Than damn pin is only 1/8" wide, IF that. More like 1/16", I bet.

 

I waited for the full moon for this attempt....I guess Artemis was looking kindly over me. The pin on the button is about 3/32", I used a #56 drill bit and a small cordless drill motor and got lucky. As you can see from the pix, the hole was just a hair off center in both the button body and the broken pin. Fortunately, it was about the same amount in both and rotating the pin a little back and forth produced a usable result.

 

Hi, I was wanting to switch my controls also. Did all the electrical connections match, Or is there some grafting the two together ? Also are they the same cable cofiguration ? Any & all help you can provide is much appreiciated !! THANK YOU

 

I used the vf500 cables in theF2 throttle

grafting was required from harness to harness (solder & shrinkwrap) but it wasn't difficult with both wiring diagrams at hand.