sickofitall
XS650 Addict
Twice it's left me with no spark. Pma, cap, kickstart. I ride it here, I ride it over there, then back to here, then I go there and no spark. I truck it home. Takes a few days to get back to it. I put a spark tool on it that's inline from the plug to the head and still nothing. Put a battery in place of the cap and boom, starts right up. Runs between 13.5 and 14.5 solid. Battery takes a charge. Put the cap back on (new or old) boom starts right up. Checked all my wiring. No shorts. Idles nice. Runs great while I ride it and I mean perfect. Then all of a sudden it just won't start. No switch for head or tail. When it fires lights are bright right from the kick. When it won't fire headlight is dim almost nothing. I figure it's the cap or my coils but I figure if it's my coils they wouldn't stay dead for days. Or at least until I put a battery to them. And now that I wrote it out I'm thinking coils because the cap probably just doesn't have enough juice off the pma to charge them but a nice hot battery does.
I asked Hugh about it yesterday but I figure a few more opinions couldn't hurt. I have read every post on caps and ignition coils so please don't tell me to search.
I asked Hugh about it yesterday but I figure a few more opinions couldn't hurt. I have read every post on caps and ignition coils so please don't tell me to search.