.png "Powered by vBulletin")
'78 1000 dead coil?
Ive parked my GS for the season, not because it isnt weather for riding, but because 2 of the cylinders dont fire due to missing spark. I drove into town alot slower than normal, since my home town was celebrating its 50th annual jazz festival 
and there was so much traffic on the roads that it wasnt anything else to do than to keep in line and follow. Then i pulled over to look at a bankrupcy sale that sold riding gear cheap, and when I started the bike afterwards it ran very rough. I thought i had went out of gas, filled some at the gas station that was luckily nearby, but no improvement.
Any attempt of clearing the old warrior's throat failed(including cooling it down to remove an eventual vapor lock in the fuel system.). So I rode the 35 kilometers home on two cylinders, and found that the spark was missing on one of the coils.
But here comes trouble. I can perhaps check if it is the coil itself by swapping the wires and see if the dead coil fires when its being fed from the other ones power supply, but thats it. How can I find out whats wrong if theres no power at the other wire? If it is the controller box/cdi unit or one of the two pickups on the engine? 
Besides, something makes me think the ignition has been modified: There is a red wire attached to the frame with strips that goes to the two pickups, it starts at one of them, goes over to the other and then up to the CDI where it looks like a somewhat homemade connection.(I'd think there would be 2 wires, but it is perhaps some kind of coax cable??) At least someone has reattached the wire or tried to seal the unit better, as there is alot of sillicone around. So there it stands then, in seven stones, any good advice?
and there was so much traffic on the roads that it wasnt anything else to do than to keep in line and follow. Then i pulled over to look at a bankrupcy sale that sold riding gear cheap, and when I started the bike afterwards it ran very rough. I thought i had went out of gas, filled some at the gas station that was luckily nearby, but no improvement. Any attempt of clearing the old warrior's throat failed(including cooling it down to remove an eventual vapor lock in the fuel system.). So I rode the 35 kilometers home on two cylinders, and found that the spark was missing on one of the coils. But here comes trouble. I can perhaps check if it is the coil itself by swapping the wires and see if the dead coil fires when its being fed from the other ones power supply, but thats it. How can I find out whats wrong if theres no power at the other wire? If it is the controller box/cdi unit or one of the two pickups on the engine? Besides, something makes me think the ignition has been modified: There is a red wire attached to the frame with strips that goes to the two pickups, it starts at one of them, goes over to the other and then up to the CDI where it looks like a somewhat homemade connection.(I'd think there would be 2 wires, but it is perhaps some kind of coax cable??) At least someone has reattached the wire or tried to seal the unit better, as there is alot of sillicone around. So there it stands then, in seven stones, any good advice?
Comment