As I mentioned in the past, I've been dealing with some flat spot issues. After leaning my needle jet, I took her on a nice ride last night. About 34 miles into my ride, putter putter putter. Bike just dies.
Take a run over to autozone, grab some new plugs... no spark. This would lead me to believe it's the coil or a fried Pamco. How perfect! I'm running a dual output coil and a Pamco from Pamco Pete. Strikes me as VERY odd considering the bike ran fine for 3 weeks w/ only minor flat spots. How great!?!?
Perhaps a little more detail will help us offer some assistance.
1. Which model of PAMCO are we talking about here? There are several.
2. What is the year / model of your bike?
3. What type of charging system do you have?
4. If a PMA, is it a battery or capacitor setup?
5. Have you done any work on the electrical system lately?
6. When did you buy / install the PAMCO?
7. What was the battery / capacitor voltage the last time you checked it at 3,000 RPM?
8. If a battery setup, what is the battery voltage now?
9. Have you had a chance to review 650skulls excellent PAMCO write up?
10. Have you tried these troubleshooting tips?
Testing the coil:
1. Using the lowest scale on the meter, measure the resistance between the primary terminals with the wires removed. Should read from 2.5 to 4.5 Ohms.
2. Using the highest scale on the meter, measure between one of the primary terminals and the center core of the coil. Should be infinite resistance. (open)
3. Measure between one of the primary terminals and one of the plug wire terminals. Should be infinite resistance. (open circuit)
4. Measure between one of the plug wire terminals and the core of the coil. Should be infinite resistance (open circuit)
5. Measure from one plug terminal to the other. Should be 15,000 to 20,000 Ohms
Testing the PAMCO
1. Use a voltmeter and check for battery voltage on each of the red/white wires with the key and kill switch are turned on.
2. The dual output coil has to have both spark plug wires connected to a spark plug at all times.
3. To test for spark, connect one of the spark plug wires to a spark plug that is grounded to the engine.
To test for spark without having to turn the engine over, do this procedure:
1. Remove the PAMCO rotor.
2. Remove the locating pin in the advance rod.
3. Reinstall the rotor, but without the pin.
4. Replace the nut holding the rotor on loosely. This will allow you to spin the rotor to produce a spark without having to turn the engine over.
5. Connect one of the spark plug wires to a spark plug that is grounded to the engine, but not installed in the engine.
6. Make sure that the other spark plug wire is connected to a spark plug in the engine.
7. Turn on the ignition switch and the kill switch.
8. Spin the rotor while looking at the gap in the spark plug for a spark.
9. Turn off the kill switch and the ignition switch.