endofitall9 Posted August 19, 2005 Report Posted August 19, 2005 Riding one day, it was running like a raped ape put it up. Went out to ride the next day wouldn't start. Started with the wiring harness I knew it was mangled, made a race harness but kept the light. still the same thing only spark every now and then. tested coil didn't like what I was getting bought a ricky stator coil still the same. tested pickup coil and stator, they ring out fine. went back to the coil done testing and couldnt get anything from the secondary test. called ricky stator and he says that the secondary testing is a crappy test and he doesnt know why they even give the info on how to do. tells me to stick the ohmmeter plugs into each sparkplug cap and it should ring out about 15000 did that it rung out 15.8 i guess its good? noway of checking the cdi its old style and nobody has an older banshee. this this has me banging my head on the wall! why would it just spark everynow and then? sorry for the length just want to know something Quote
MonkeyBoy Posted August 19, 2005 Report Posted August 19, 2005 CDI's really can't be tested. You swap it with a know good one. Try your frame grounds. Make sure that they are not corroded. Does it run at all? Kick it in the dark, and make sure your coil isn't shorting to the frame. Have someone look for a spark in the dark. Quote
endofitall9 Posted August 19, 2005 Author Report Posted August 19, 2005 i just completely re-did the wiring harness, all wires are brandnew. brandnew coil. i know I cant test the cdi without swapping in a new one but noone around here has and older model banshee with this type of cdi. my question is would a bad cdi just make it spark everynow and then or would it not spark at all? Quote
BansheeBoy17 Posted August 19, 2005 Report Posted August 19, 2005 CDIs normally just die, stop working, dead, forever gone.. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you havent replaced the stator yet, but you tested it? Normally the 3 main things that end up in intermintent sparking is the coil, stator, or bad grounds.... Thats really f'd up that you just started it the next day and it had bad spark, normally it woudl go bad while u were riding it. I really dont know* where to go from here, I shouldnt even have posted Quote
rmd8123 Posted August 19, 2005 Report Posted August 19, 2005 I am having the same problem. My banshee is an 04. It was running just fine and then started running like crap, and back fireing. After that it would only spark intermediately. Replaced ignition coil and that made no change. Any ideas.... Quote
BansheeBoy17 Posted August 19, 2005 Report Posted August 19, 2005 rmd - I would test the stator next. Stators are normally the first things to mess up electrically. Unless your name is endofitall9 ... lol just jokin Quote
endofitall9 Posted August 19, 2005 Author Report Posted August 19, 2005 lol good one bansheeboy. I have replaced the stator about 6 months ago it rings out fine I don't know though. yeah I was spanking a raptor one minute had to hurry and get to work went home put it up and then went out to start next morning nothing........Well been messing with it all morning and found that on the cdi box someone has cut one of the wires coming from the box and fixed it with a wire plice connector anyway it didn't hold......shitty job. i took it off and soldered the wires together put it back and and was thinking it going to run. Nope, nothing now it doesn't even have spark. I guess I'm not going to be riding for awhile just going to do the whole shabang stator new harness new cdi guarantee it will run then! Quote
rmd8123 Posted August 21, 2005 Report Posted August 21, 2005 How would i test the stator and i replaced it about 6 months ago. Quote
endofitall9 Posted August 21, 2005 Author Report Posted August 21, 2005 http://www.dfn.com/agservices/elecfaq.html Quote
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