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Hmmm, alright. I'll probably give the JBWeld a shot. Thanks for linking that thread; I haven't had much luck searching for this so far.

Well, I finally found my oil leak the other day. It's coming from this little plug-looking thing just up and left from the drive sprocket. I don't recognize it, and can't find it in my Haynes manual. Can anyone tell me what this is? (Sorry for all the purple; I didn't have the forethought to...

Oooohh... I pulled the safety relay. Thanks for posting the picture, 5twins. My manual doesn't seem to list one or the other, so I assumed they were the same thing. It seems like the safety relay was omitted from some models, and I guess either they didn't include it or I'm just not seeing where...

Is there a safety relay and a solenoid relay? Because I definitely had five wires going into this unit, one of them yellow. I can't find two relays in any of the schematics I have. The unit I removed was under the right hand side cover. I can take a picture later, if that would help.

Ok, so it sounds like this idea is a no go, at least not until I feel like playing around with it more. Can you confirm my knowledge of how the solenoid is wired? Red/White - Kill switch -> Coil Positive Blue/White - Starter switch -> Coil Ground Red - Battery -> Common Terminal Black...

Well, having noticed my mistake, I unsoldered the wire harness and installed it in the correct place. The bike runs now (and charges at idle now, which it didn't do before). Fair enough. I did run into a post on another site claiming that $47 was a "good deal" for such a transistor. What...

I made an embarrassing mistake today when replacing the rectifier on my '78 XS650. I got everything pulled out and wired up... only to realize I had replaced my starter solenoid with a rectifier... I said it was embarrassing. :doh: So the question is, has anyone replaced one of these things...