badlegbill
XS650 Enthusiast
My daughter asked if my grandson could use my little lifeboat bike to run around on until he passes his license some time back.
I said yes and took it up there, about 160 miles on the road.
I've just come back from a few days at her place fitting a complete set of luggage on her CB500X and was told the bike, the 125 ,was playing up and died after about 10 or 15 minutes use.
I've ordered a new replacement coil because stripping cleaning and resetting everything to factory including a fuel flow test, open carb drain plug into a container, and level, why do boys have to play with things they don't understand, did not affect the issue.
The plug looks OK, that is not fouled enough to be the problem, so I am guessing weak spark, swapping out the coil makes sense since the wiring checks out and the running voltage is around 14v.
Does anybody have any experience with failing igniter units or have a test process to eliminate it as a cause?
I said yes and took it up there, about 160 miles on the road.
I've just come back from a few days at her place fitting a complete set of luggage on her CB500X and was told the bike, the 125 ,was playing up and died after about 10 or 15 minutes use.
I've ordered a new replacement coil because stripping cleaning and resetting everything to factory including a fuel flow test, open carb drain plug into a container, and level, why do boys have to play with things they don't understand, did not affect the issue.
The plug looks OK, that is not fouled enough to be the problem, so I am guessing weak spark, swapping out the coil makes sense since the wiring checks out and the running voltage is around 14v.
Does anybody have any experience with failing igniter units or have a test process to eliminate it as a cause?
