My bride and I left this morning for a week-end get away since the weather this week-end was supposed to be good. We were headed to see the re-opened Kinzua Railroad Trestle Bridge that was taken down by a tornado in 2003. Well we got about 200 yards from our drive way when the dreaded noise that I hate started. The starter tried to engage. I know the sound and I hate it.
It is the 3rd one that has gone bad on my TG. The last one was when M3 and I were headed to Yellowstone in July. Well this time my trip wasn't ruined. M3 had installed the push button to operate the starter on both of our trikes. All I needed to do was disconnect the green wire from the starter and use the push button to start the trike. It worked like a charm.
I saw no ill effects from the green wire being disconnected. Everything worked as advertised. I will have the starter switch replaced but I will probably continue using the button. Had the switch shorted out when I was on the freeway I would probably would have not heard the starter trying to engage and that would have created a major problem for me.