Electricnightmare
XS650 Enthusiast
so i blew up my xs11 and bought a 650 that "only had carbs issues" and needed a new battery. I know i was pretty green. So i clean the carbs and almost eliminate the back fire from the right cylinder. it persists but I'm excited so i whip it into town with the shit battery it dies my jumper pack dies we try my pals elscalade no luck. I get her home on the trailer get a new battery then ride 60 miles to go skydiving which made me feel pretty cool. bikes dead jumper pack ride it all the way home have to pop start at the gas station for the final ten minutes. I get home I go ok time to learn about charging systems. pop the headlight after checking curlys go to test and discover the tweaker PO re-wire massacre(photos tomorrow its getting dark out) not knowing what im getting into thinking everything is pretty much gonna be signals i plugged something into something else and shorted one of the wires running to the 6 way in my stator. knowing more now, its pretty strange it would have blown i think. a day or two later i rode into town about ten fifteeen minutes it worked fine. then after sitting for about an hour later i tried to ride home throttle bogged out tough and i could barely make it up the rolling hills home. Now it behaves like the mix is way lean throttle bog and dying out with gas. I messed with the idle mixture screws and tried to dial them and my idle in but it fluctuates. Sometimes it seems like the right cylinder sudden becomes electrified again and starts firing and throttle behaves normally. I know this from laser temp gunning my pipes at idle i was getting about 77* on the right cylinder and 126* on the left side clynder. suddenly something happend after i gave it gas to like 4000 rpms. Abrubtly the backfire stopped it only fell back to apprx. 2500rpms and i had to adjust idle back down. I thought it had fixed itself for a moment until it got back down to about 1500rpms when it lost spark again(i temp gunned the pipe again before adjusting idle back down left and right pipe were the same. I think this could be due to my regulator being wired into the system wrong only allowing the coil to get sufficient spark once the alternator is inputting a certain amount of charge.BUT why would that have happened since i returned all the wires to their "original" positions when the bike was previously running acceptably but without charge (well only about 2 volts) Tomorrow im also going to create a wiring diagram for my "custom " electric on my otherwise stock 79. If i dont theres no fucking way anyone is going to be able to help me. I want to drop the coin on a hughes and the new ignition system because im hoping it will simplify my problems by being forced to a chopper rewire which ill have to do because the rats nest is unacceptable and i dont understand wtf is going on. I began to try and map it out today but was overwhelmed by the assumed absurdity of my "current " wiring system. please ask me questions ill be on it idk what else to tell