1979 gs850g

[hadaveha]

I have just bought a new to me 1979 GS850g, I have had a few friends tell me to change the ignition out to electronic, but from what I have read its seems to be 50/50 on changing where do you guys stand.

[azr]

Very good advice from your friends. We all put Dyna electronic ignitions in. Bolt it in and forget about it.

[hadaveha]

I have had a hard time finding the dyna ignition for the 1979 maybe I'm just not looking at the right place

[azr]

You're not looking very hard then

https://www.z1enterprises.com/product/DYDS3-2

[Steve]

For the record, the '79 850 was the only year that had points.

Some owners have had the stock electronic system fail and have replaced with Dyna.
Again, it's a straight bolt-in, but only for the earlier years.
Later years needed to have a mechanical advance mechanism installed.

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[geol]

Buy an inductive timing light and do the timing of the ignition dynamically... it is MUCH closer when done this way than static timing. The good thing about going from points is that the mechanical timing advance on your bike will have T, F and 4500 rpm timing marks. The bikes initially equipped with an electronic ignition only have these marks for the 1/4 cylinders and just the T mark (Top Dead Center - which isn't useful for ignition timing with a timing light).

[storm 64]

Not only does Z-1Enterprise have what your looking for, they are about the lowest price around. I recently bought a complete ignition system from them. Dyna-S, Dyna Coils and Dyna Plug wires all for under $300 👍

[hadaveha]

I got it thank you all so much for your help, my bike is running great now a little slow to warm up, but over all good, I just want to get out ahead of as many problems as I can