Subject: Hallelujah, almost...
Author: Ted Ward
Date: Apr 7, 2005, 6:28 PM
Post ID: 1718667312
Okay, after months of teeth gnashing, I finally figured out what my bike is
doing to cause it run poorly, now I need to figure out why...
I finally hooked a timing light up to it, and set the timing pretty close,
but then I noticed something odd... The light wasn't flashing everytime for
the #2 cylinder...
A little more investigation, I realized that if I disconnect the sparkplug
wire from the #1 cylinder, the #2 cylinder fires everytime, but when I
reconnect the #1 wire, the #2 starts sparking intermittently. #1 always
fires everytime as far as I can tell, even if #2 is hooked up.
I have new points and a new condensor. The coil is an accel 8140c, I don't
know if that is a resistor coil or not but it was really hot after running
for a while. Anyway the coil is new, one of the desparation things I tried
earlier which didn't help. The distributor cap looks pretty poor, I wonder
if a bad distributor cap/rotor could be the culprit???
Let me know your crackpot theories...
Ted