split ignition wire cause black/wet plugs

[Johnny K]

About a year and a half ago, I layed down my bike in my driveway because of lost balance before I put in the new dyna coils. I kept on getting black/wet plugs on #1 and #4 plugs. chased it back to the ignition wire, unstripped it and found the white wire sliced enough to basically have a couple of strands of copper going to the coil. I chased that white wire connected to my green wire which goes to the left bottom plug port. That port is kind of black and sooty compared to the other ones which are just the copper holes. Can I just strip back and solder the white wire and shrink wrap it back? Hopefully I can do that then switch the coils and see if any of the plugs will be black and wet once I can do that. Here are a couple of pics. Sorry for the blurriness. Hopefully you get the idea.

Bottom coil:

Top coil:

Spliced white wire

 

[BassCliff]

Hi,

Your repair plan sounds reasonable to me. Clean the connections, make good solder joints in the splices (use shrink tubing to cover them), trim the spark plug cables just a bit so that you have clean wire plugging into the coils, and you should be good to go. Keep us informed.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

[Johnny K]

Thanks. Already started soldering some wires with shrink wrapping. That main white wire wasn't connected at all! It just looked like it was. I did clean up and trim the plug wires. Hopefully I will be able to button everything back up and put new spark plugs in and go for a ride and then check them after.