barelycompetent
81 XS650 Special
So I tried to ride my bike to the tail of the dragon this past weekend, and I only made it 86miles before getting stuck in traffic, overheating and killing my bike. I havent gone through all of the charging system tests just yet but with my TCI box on the bike it wont start, it will turn over but not spark. I have a spare TCI box that I picked up recently, put that on and the bike will start but is running very rough, wont rev up over 4k. I started looking at the TCI's side by side and they are both 6 wire, but the spare I have seems to be an older one and looks nothing like the bad one that came off my bike. Here are some pics to compare. The first pic is a side by side, the good spare on the left and the bad one from the bike on the right, the second pic is the cover of the bad one, and the third pic is the cover off the good one. It looks like the good one is a model TD12-01, while the bad one is a TD12-01B. Would the different models make a difference? The good one should work in the bike right? My bike is an 81 special by the way, all stock charging and ignition, for now. Im so sick of the electrical gremlins with this damn thing that I think its going to sit for the summer till I can scrape up some cash to upgrade to the pamco/pma swap. I did do an ohm test on my rotor as well and its reading way high at 7.4ohms. I know thats part of the problem right there, it does pass a slap test, but when I try to rev the bike my headlight does not get brighter. I did try hooking my test meter up to my battery and the voltage was at 12.5 got it to rev a little bit and it went to about 13.75 then my meter went wonky and showed nothing. I know that I have other issues going on and need to go through all of the damn tests again, and I will, I just really need to know if they different model TCI boxes will work or not. Sorry for the long post, and sorry Im back again with another issue lol.