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If you like pop up headlights (pop-up up-and-down headlights as James Pumphrey refers to them) there is no other scooter for you than the Honda Elite 150 Deluxe. The Elite's retractable headlight is the only one that made it to scooter majesty.
Although the mechanism is made up of simple components the entire system is extremely complex with lots of points of failure.
00:00 - Introduction
00:59 - How is the pop-up headlight supposed to work?
01:45 - Removing the hood
02:15 - How does the raising and retracting mechanism work
02:26 - How to override the automatic headlight system
03:50 - Testing the microswitch
04:19 - Testing the wire harness
05:22 - Replacing the headlight motor with a used part
05:50 - The replacement motor isn't much better
07:05 - Adjusting the headlight motor
09:08 - Disassembling the headlight motor for inspection and lubrication
10:59 - Cleaning the commutator wheel and pins
12:39 - Inspecting the circuit board
15:20 - Repairing the circuit board
18:00 - The repaired circuit board clicks (bad timer?)
19:14 - Repairing the original circuit board
20:48 - The headlight motor works!
The first step in getting this headlight popping up like a daisy again is making sure the problem exists in the headlight motor and not in the scooter's wiring. The ignition switch controls the headlight motor with 4 wires. The red wire is hot at all times. The black wire is hot when the key is in the "on" position. The green wire with white tracer should be hot with the key in the "off" position. And the green wire is ground.
All of the outputs on this scooter's wire harness tested good so we replaced it with a used one that was supposed to be in working condition. The "new unit" did not raise the headlight immediately. It needed to be jarred ahead with the manual override. The same was true when trying to park the headlight.
We opened the unit and applied grease to the internal gears and though that seemed to result in smoother and faster operation the motor still did not operate correctly. We opened it again and cleaned the commutator wheel and contact pins. But this didn't change anything either.
Finally we inspected the circuit board. The green wire seems to lay across the board and rubs through the circuit insulation over time. We repaired the board with a few strands of copper wire then painted an insulator over the top.
We installed the circuit board back in the headlight motor and it did operate, but we could hear a consistent click. There was a failed component on the board that we feared would drain the customer's battery.
So we repaired his original circuit board and put it in the "new" unit.... SUCCESS!
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