Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

Righteous.

I've got a used starter motor on order, and if I still have starter motor trouble with the new battery, I'm switching out to a kickstarter.

Thanks to everybody for all the help so far. This little spree of mine is going to need a lot of help to get it running again.

Well sh*t.

I'm rebuilding this thing for my mom (Who is almost 60), so I'll have to pick up another motor and use an appropriately sized batter from now on. I can't see her wanting to learn how to kickstart a motor.

The new CDI got spark going to my new plugs, hurray! Then I cleaned the carb and put everything back in place... Then the engine puttered for like 1 second... and then the starter motor quit working and started smoking. I was jumping power directly to the starter motor from a Toyota Echo's car batte...

Oh man, thanks for the info ya'll. I won't have a progress update for another two weeks tho- I'm working on the project weekends with my pops, and he's out of town for the next two. In the meantime I printed up the repair manual and will be binding it at work this week to begin studying this strange...

All these used CDI's are going for $$- I guess there aren't too many new one floating around the internets then? I'm hesitant to drop $70 on a used part that might not even work!

OK. I'll check the pulse coil too.

If the exciter coil isn't functioning, I suppose this would cause problems as well? I guess I'll just check the whole electrical works.

Thanks for posting. Its worth a shot, I'll test my stock CDI out on Sat when I get back to the shop.

In the meantime, where does one go to purchase a new quality CDI for these beautiful little scooters?

Hello. The manual says nothing about how to test the CDI- all it walks you through is testing what goes into the CDI. I found this testing sheet for my MB5's CDI- http://www.brommerforum.nl/kb/artikel/48/ does anybody have a testing sheet to tell if the CDI itself is bad for the spree? And, where ca...