ruination607
XS650 Member
Hey there guys...
I'm Darrek, new to the Forums and the site, but an avid metric bobber/chopper lover, and have embarked on my first build. Unfortunately, every time I turn around it's something different that I'm running into walls with.
Here's some history. The motor is a 1977 Yamaha XS650, The frame (from what I have been told by the seller) is an old Sportster frame that was modded to fit the 650 motor. It has a raked dirt bike front end, and 21" front tire.
I bought forward controls from TC Bros., Shifter lever and Heim Joints from Dime City Cycles, and found an "oil tank" that was once an old gas tank on a garden tractor.
My friend and I have sanded the entire frame, tank, fenders, oil tank, etc down, and I have painted it a nice metal flake blue.
A few weeks ago I bought a new battery, new plugs, and simplified the wiring to clean all the birds nest of wires from the harness and stuff.
Here's the problem...
3 weeks ago, while testing a "starter" switch, we found out that the bike is wired for an electric start. (we'd assumed it was only kick start all this time). It immediately roared to life, and we could get it fired up by simply touching the two wires together. So we continued on, and rewired the headlight, brake and tail light and a running light that we custom installed into the oil tank with a 3 way on off on switch. And the starter on a momentary toggle switch. A week later when we went back to work on it, the battery was completely drained, and we could not get her to start by either the electric start or the kickstart. We diagnosed several elements in the wiring, and when messing with a ground she almost fired up again. But to no avail... so we tested for spark, and have none coming out of the plug wires...
Seeing that I'm still very new at this I hate to go out and buy new coils, condensor, shit like that if it's something simple that I just don't have the knowledge to look for. Like... am I just not grounded? Did something I took out of the harness have something to do with it? What are the things in the harness??? I know one is the starter relay... but what else is in there? When it comes to this shit, I'm LOST~!
I'm Darrek, new to the Forums and the site, but an avid metric bobber/chopper lover, and have embarked on my first build. Unfortunately, every time I turn around it's something different that I'm running into walls with.
Here's some history. The motor is a 1977 Yamaha XS650, The frame (from what I have been told by the seller) is an old Sportster frame that was modded to fit the 650 motor. It has a raked dirt bike front end, and 21" front tire.
I bought forward controls from TC Bros., Shifter lever and Heim Joints from Dime City Cycles, and found an "oil tank" that was once an old gas tank on a garden tractor.
My friend and I have sanded the entire frame, tank, fenders, oil tank, etc down, and I have painted it a nice metal flake blue.
A few weeks ago I bought a new battery, new plugs, and simplified the wiring to clean all the birds nest of wires from the harness and stuff.
Here's the problem...
3 weeks ago, while testing a "starter" switch, we found out that the bike is wired for an electric start. (we'd assumed it was only kick start all this time). It immediately roared to life, and we could get it fired up by simply touching the two wires together. So we continued on, and rewired the headlight, brake and tail light and a running light that we custom installed into the oil tank with a 3 way on off on switch. And the starter on a momentary toggle switch. A week later when we went back to work on it, the battery was completely drained, and we could not get her to start by either the electric start or the kickstart. We diagnosed several elements in the wiring, and when messing with a ground she almost fired up again. But to no avail... so we tested for spark, and have none coming out of the plug wires...
Seeing that I'm still very new at this I hate to go out and buy new coils, condensor, shit like that if it's something simple that I just don't have the knowledge to look for. Like... am I just not grounded? Did something I took out of the harness have something to do with it? What are the things in the harness??? I know one is the starter relay... but what else is in there? When it comes to this shit, I'm LOST~!
