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I've got a no-spark situation as well on an '83 special. I swapped in a known good coil and still no spark. I've taken the TCI unit apart and it looked like one of the zener diodes was burned, but I'm about to go through the testing procedure outline in the link and see what I've got. Bah humbug.

Don't forget the ol' trick of squirting some Marvel Mystery Oil down in the spark plug sockets before you turn it over. Had a 1960 Ford F-100 with a 292 Y-block, did this little trick and it went from barely cranking to perfect in a few revolutions. It'll smoke pretty good once it gets fired...

gggGary, I love your signature. Thanks so much for the help, guys. You put my mind at ease, and once I carefully sat down, pulled the LH side cover on and off about 20 times after trying different things with the worm drive, have concluded that the worm drive itself is shot. It was pretty...

Big thanks for the info 5twins. There definitely is NOT a ball in the worm gear currently. Makes sense that it would not be in there as this was more or less a basket case. I did try to move the screw that goes through the case into the worm gear (against the pushrod, from the outside) but...

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Long time reader, first time poster. I know y'all know your stuff, so hopefully someone can help me out with this problem I'm having. I tried to search but couldn't find any useful results for this specific problem. I've got an '83 xs650 heritage special, and when I got it the left side...