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Cheap source for new coils?

Make Opie cry?

Make Opie cry?

tkent02 said:
Wait a minute, isn't the warranty up at the end of your driveway?
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Andy Taylor would give 'em back their money, because the coils were going bad before they came over.
If deputy Fife hadn't pulled them over, the boys would've had a fast ride home.
The buddy was actually riding the bike for the buyer, and he was the sour puss that spoiled the deal. His regular ride is a CBR1100, so a GS550 on it's best day would seem lame to him.
Too many negative actors spoiled the transaction.
Bill
 
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Bill,
Did you read the resistance on both the primary and secondary windings of the coils? If they read the same, the coils are good and replacing them is just throwing good money after bad. It's just as likely, electronically speaking, that the relay you just added to the circuit is bad and only working intermittently. If you can't condemn a part by a repeatable, verifiable test, then you shouldn't replace it. Even out of a sense of frustration. I've been there. My Voyager's alternator died the morning that I had a buyer coming to look at it. I took it out for a short test drive to warm it up and it threw diode particles through the air vents. That was easy to diagnose but still required that I check the output before spending over $300.00 for a new one.
Coils are truly simple devices. They have no moving parts and consist of coils of wire wrapped around a steel or copper core. The proper way to check a coil is to read the primary resistance with an ohm meter. Then the secondary resistance. Then read primary and secondary to ground and to each other to insure that you don't have a short or partial short. If those readings are good, so are the coils.
I would be looking at the igniter as well. It is far more likely to develop an intermittent type of operation. Since transistors are semiconductors, when they begin to fail, they can reverse operation under load and depending on temperature conditions, they can do it indiscriminately enough to cause even a good technician to pull his hair out. The only way to check one, unless you have access to some pretty sophisticated test equipment, is to sub a known good one.
PM me if I can be of further help. I spent 8 years in Uncle Sam's Nuclear Navy chasing electronics issues. I'm no wizard, but I do have some taxpayer funded education that I would be glad to offer in assistance.
Don
 
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