Picked up a new horse today, 85 250ES

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I will retry it again tomorrow I may have been wrong but pretty sure it was the reverse light staying on. I know one of the lights were on full time while my X cdi was plugged in but works normal with the ES cdi. I did try unhooking the switch totally and still had no spark, I have a ton to do tomorrow so I will try to do some work on it. Im crossing my fingers that my new switch comes in so I can rule that area out completely, well clean that area up atleast. Those loose half a$$ed wires drive me crazy

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New switch installed, new cdi came in today and before I hardwired everything I was doing some testing with it first. Still no spark!! Now its getting very frustrating. Pissed off more or less.

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I finally did some more work on the Big Red, I decided to break out my multimeter and check some more wires on the stator and pulse gen. No cont on the red/black stator wire with ground but I do get some voltage from it when I crank it. The manual says I should get continuity so I guess I need to be shopping for a stator.

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Stator installed,we have spark woo hoo. I'm just waiting on the battery to recharge and ill be trying to fire

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Its alive! Rebuilt the carb, new stator, case gaskets, uni air filter, oil change, oil filter and plug finished. Parts to install still are rear brakes, 2 brake cables and headlight glass. She really idles perfect and not a single puff of smoke, shifts through all of the gears perfect. The only thing I have found interesting is the motor temp seems to be very hot too the touch, even the starter is almost skalding hot. Is this a Red thing because of the hot weather and the big arse front fender or is she running a touch lean. Thanks for all of the you guys that helped along this crazy wiring system.