Bike Died While Riding, Now No Start

Haha, yeah sounds like something I would do! Has a brand new carb on it, I opened the carb bowl drain and petcock and let about a liter flow through and out testing that the carb was getting gas and hoping to flush out anything that may have gotten in there.

If after I check my cap, I may pull the carb apart just to check. Although I shot some starter fluid in there today and still no go.

May be at the point of pulling the harness and double checking every wire and every connection.
 
littlebill31 said:
Here's a question.
Are the spark plugs firing? Did you ground them out to see if they are sparking with a battery hooked in-line?
Spark, air, fuel, pretty basic
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How should I wire a battery on as well as cap? I did try to check for spark but with kick only it's hard to hold the plug grounded and kick and watch for spark at the same time. Need to get a friend over this weekend to help out.

Question, if I lost compression for some reason would it just die or would it run rough for a while first?
 
Replace the capacitor with a battery. Or just bypass the charging and run a total loss by hooking the coil straight to a battery. All you are doing is providing power to the ignition to check for spark.
I say this because I have tested coils and they were good, but didn't have a good spark.
And double check the kill switch and ignition.
 
So one side of coil to positive on battery, negative to ground, and he other side of coil to Pamco.

Correct?

This leaves the cap connected as well.

Can I disconnect the cap and connect right to batter instead. Same leads?
 
Unhook the capacitor.
Disconnect the charging systems.
From a motorcycle 12v battery. Ground the battery to the frame. Run a lead from the Pos side of the battery to where the capacitor Pos went, connected to the coil. Put a kill switch (this will be the on/off switch) in that line and a fuse for safety.
 
Okay, sorry to leave everyone hanging so long. I tested every component to the electrical system, tested continuity on all wiring and all tested out great! So this left me stumped. I pulled the entire wiring harness to get a better look and decided to rebuild from scratch, AGAIN. I wanted to clean everything up anyway. Put everything back in and it fired right up. So...I'm thinking that there was a bad connection that was intermittent somewhere in my harness. Testing out fine but if moved or something would disconnect.

So took it out for a test ride, ran good around the neighborhood so took it out for a cruise. Got going shifted into second and it died. SHIT. Checked everything on the side of the road and found a blown fuse. Replaced and started right up, took off and died again, FUCK!

Pushed it home, replaced fuse again and fired right up. While sitting it ran and idled just fine. Looking over everything when i moved the power wire running to the headlight and boom, died. Okay now we are getting somewhere. Wiggled the wire and fired up again, wiggled wire and died.

Tested that wire and its good, wiggled it still good, What the hell! Then noticed that my headlight was flickering...Pulled the headlight apart and what do you know...The power wire to the headlight was hanging by a thread (when I say thread I literally mean thread, the cloth braided insulation around the wire was all that was holding it together, intermittently making contact or grounding out and popping a fuse). Could this really have been the source of all my troubles...Never would have thought that it was a factory issue. I just assumed that it was something I did...

Anyway fixed the connection and fired right up, took it out for a 20 min ride and everything is perfect! I'm not counting my chickens quite yet but am hopeful I have worked out all the bugs.

Thanks everyone here for all the help!
 
Maybe you should check all connections after that fuse that was blowing. Just like that fuse that was getting hot and blowing, all of the connections and wires on that circuit were getting hot too. You just may find some blackened or partially melted connectors and/or crimps.

Scott
 
Ricksonc said:
Okay, sorry to leave everyone hanging so long. I tested every component to the electrical system, tested continuity on all wiring and all tested out great! So this left me stumped. I pulled the entire wiring harness to get a better look and decided to rebuild from scratch, AGAIN. I wanted to clean everything up anyway. Put everything back in and it fired right up. So...I'm thinking that there was a bad connection that was intermittent somewhere in my harness. Testing out fine but if moved or something would disconnect.

So took it out for a test ride, ran good around the neighborhood so took it out for a cruise. Got going shifted into second and it died. SHIT. Checked everything on the side of the road and found a blown fuse. Replaced and started right up, took off and died again, FUCK!

Pushed it home, replaced fuse again and fired right up. While sitting it ran and idled just fine. Looking over everything when i moved the power wire running to the headlight and boom, died. Okay now we are getting somewhere. Wiggled the wire and fired up again, wiggled wire and died.

Tested that wire and its good, wiggled it still good, What the hell! Then noticed that my headlight was flickering...Pulled the headlight apart and what do you know...The power wire to the headlight was hanging by a thread (when I say thread I literally mean thread, the cloth braided insulation around the wire was all that was holding it together, intermittently making contact or grounding out and popping a fuse). Could this really have been the source of all my troubles...Never would have thought that it was a factory issue. I just assumed that it was something I did...

Anyway fixed the connection and fired right up, took it out for a 20 min ride and everything is perfect! I'm not counting my chickens quite yet but am hopeful I have worked out all the bugs.

Thanks everyone here for all the help!
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mrtwowheel said:
Maybe you should check all connections after that fuse that was blowing. Just like that fuse that was getting hot and blowing, all of the connections and wires on that circuit were getting hot too. You just may find some blackened or partially melted connectors and/or crimps.

Scott
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+1 Scott

Also, just out of curiousity, do you have the wiring diagram that you used? I'm assuming you used one from here?
 

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