banshee0044 Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 hey guys..ive had some electrical problems recently and now im only running on one cylinder. I pulled the plugs,checked for spark, replaced the plugs, still ...one cylider...im pretty sure the coil is bad but i was wondering what one of the wires was for.. the wires that come out of the parking brake..were cut out...but i guess the guy just rerouted the wires using some home made reconnection ..instead of just taping them up...kinda confused me...it was a u shaped connection just taking one wire , splitting to two, and reconecting it......pretty weird...ive never seen that before but does nayone know what it could be and if it oculd have burnt out the coil im going to get the coil tested tomarrow i think Quote
ruff_rida69 Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 it could be your coil but I would check you spark plug caps first and see if you have a bad one, and switch the plug wires and see if the problem go's to the other cylinder Quote
banshee0044 Posted February 25, 2004 Author Report Posted February 25, 2004 i switched the wires and it wouldnt even start the coil had silicone on it...the guys before i bought it messed with it...kinda bootleg ghetto thing they had goin Quote
frocashmoney24 Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 are you sure its electrical and not a clogged pipe or a messed up carb Quote
banshee0044 Posted February 27, 2004 Author Report Posted February 27, 2004 checked the coil and tested fine: well it was electrical for sure at first...the bike ran fine...even on both sides...and then it would be like the kill switch was going on...just die out and come back about a week later...now it runs on one cylinder Quote
MotulMonsta Posted February 27, 2004 Report Posted February 27, 2004 try unplugging the torrs box next to the coil, it's a 3 prong connector. Also the coil is powered by an orange wire and a ground solid black. The kill switch is the black with white stripe. so long as the circut is open it will run. there is a green, yellow blue and red wires..forgot what they are for I belive those are the lighting wires. The blue goes to the voltage regulator, the red and yellow are high/low beams and the green comes grom the stator. I could be wrong. all the safety switches should be an open circut type. so long as those wires don't touch it all should work. It's been a while since I had to deal with any of those wires..I removed them all. The toors works like a kill switch it stays open until eather A: a sensor on the carbs trips it or b: parking brake or throttle switch activate it. Just unplug it. That will eliminate any torrs issues. Then you can concentrate on other issues. The coil itself is cheap and very hard to repair a new one cost like 20 bucks. on the flywheel there is a magnectic pickup and two tangs on the flywheel. clean those up. If your stator is bad it will cause strange ignition issues and a weak spark. there is a test procedure in the factory and clymer manuals. The CDI is a diffrent issues. in order to figure out if it's bad, you have to test everything else ans there is no real test for the cdi. and one will run close to 400 bones. I would recomend buying a new wiring harness for 120 bucks and find electrical scematics and remove the tors wires then install it on the bike. You can test the coil yourself. If both plugs spark..the coil is good. You might have a poor ground. If only one sparks..it's bad. both plugs fire at the same time...regardless of what pistons at TDC. weird but that's how it works. so each plug wil fire at tdc and bdc. Twice per revolution. Also when you pull the harnes apart you'll notice all the switches run off the same circut. Quote
banshee0044 Posted February 27, 2004 Author Report Posted February 27, 2004 this may soudns dumb...but i can just leave the torrs unplugged for good after that...should i just tape them up on the ends and let em hang? Quote
MotulMonsta Posted February 27, 2004 Report Posted February 27, 2004 I'd cap them off and zip tie thwem someplace where it won't do any damage. id water gets in the plugs it will kill the motor as the circut is then closed. Quote
christophernpoo Posted February 28, 2004 Report Posted February 28, 2004 Have you looked for any water- maybe head leaking? how about water on flywheel, stator creating rust problems? Quote
banshee0044 Posted February 28, 2004 Author Report Posted February 28, 2004 no i havent checked for water anywhere..ill just have my guy look through it...hes good with shit like this Quote
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