Dbld2437
07-13-2015, 10:37 PM
Hope this helps someone-
In spending the last few weeks diagnosing a no spark condition on this thing, all the testing and recommendations from searching here pointed to the primary coil. Following the manual and testing per instructions confirmed it. I ordered a replacement from ebay. When it came in, I pulled the coil mounting plate and began the task of pulling the old, and soldering in the new. As I started to pull the old out, I noticed that there was a tiny crack in the solder joint where the winding wire fastens to the metal "stacked plate" body. I figured what the hell, cleaned it up and resoldered it. I have one of the little crack pipe torches, so it made quick work of heating it up, yet keeping it isolated. Tested it, found it now to be good and reinstalled. Bike runs like champ again! (And I have a spare coil for the future)
Sorry I didn't take pics of any of this.
I'm sure this won't be everyone's problem with failure on the coils, but it's an easy spot to check, and even resolder, just to test it even if you don't have the noticeable crack that I did.
In spending the last few weeks diagnosing a no spark condition on this thing, all the testing and recommendations from searching here pointed to the primary coil. Following the manual and testing per instructions confirmed it. I ordered a replacement from ebay. When it came in, I pulled the coil mounting plate and began the task of pulling the old, and soldering in the new. As I started to pull the old out, I noticed that there was a tiny crack in the solder joint where the winding wire fastens to the metal "stacked plate" body. I figured what the hell, cleaned it up and resoldered it. I have one of the little crack pipe torches, so it made quick work of heating it up, yet keeping it isolated. Tested it, found it now to be good and reinstalled. Bike runs like champ again! (And I have a spare coil for the future)
Sorry I didn't take pics of any of this.
I'm sure this won't be everyone's problem with failure on the coils, but it's an easy spot to check, and even resolder, just to test it even if you don't have the noticeable crack that I did.