Hi all,
so I have a 79 XS650 special that randomly stopped running on me. I found out it was my advance unit.
I decided to put in a pamco instead of replacing the advance. It worked great so it seemed at first. The bike never sounded so good. I even got about 50 miles on it until I started getting trouble.
The bike would sometimes have trouble at low idle. When I would rev it high it did ok. But it would die on me very randomly and usually after engine got really warmed up.
I noticed that if it had a bad idle, messing with the spark plug wires would sometimes help. I thought they were not being insulated well enough because the occasionally touched my horn and thats when the troublesome idle would occur. I was originally using the stock wires but decided to replace them with some from mikesxs.
After putting fresh wires on the bike it did fire up, but then died and now I have no spark at all.
I have cleaned a lot of things behind headlight and around charging system as well as grounds and replaced my fuses as one of them occasionally gave me problems.
The coil and pamco are both getting voltage (around 10-11) I believe I have it grounded well. I grounded it to the old mounting points for the original coil.
From the tests I tried, the only thing that seems weird is the coil resistance from both terminals. It jumps around between 2-5 ohms and occasionally goes above 5 and even as high as 10 but keep in ming my volt meter is a crappy harbor freight one so idk if that is why it isn’t constant. How can I determine if my coil fried or if the pamco is fried. Or something else? Im using the coil pete sells with his systems.
so I have a 79 XS650 special that randomly stopped running on me. I found out it was my advance unit.
I decided to put in a pamco instead of replacing the advance. It worked great so it seemed at first. The bike never sounded so good. I even got about 50 miles on it until I started getting trouble.
The bike would sometimes have trouble at low idle. When I would rev it high it did ok. But it would die on me very randomly and usually after engine got really warmed up.
I noticed that if it had a bad idle, messing with the spark plug wires would sometimes help. I thought they were not being insulated well enough because the occasionally touched my horn and thats when the troublesome idle would occur. I was originally using the stock wires but decided to replace them with some from mikesxs.
After putting fresh wires on the bike it did fire up, but then died and now I have no spark at all.
I have cleaned a lot of things behind headlight and around charging system as well as grounds and replaced my fuses as one of them occasionally gave me problems.
The coil and pamco are both getting voltage (around 10-11) I believe I have it grounded well. I grounded it to the old mounting points for the original coil.
From the tests I tried, the only thing that seems weird is the coil resistance from both terminals. It jumps around between 2-5 ohms and occasionally goes above 5 and even as high as 10 but keep in ming my volt meter is a crappy harbor freight one so idk if that is why it isn’t constant. How can I determine if my coil fried or if the pamco is fried. Or something else? Im using the coil pete sells with his systems.