One was just out of specs, the other one had infinite resistance. I then took it to the local cycle shop that had a fancy ignition coil tester. Nifty adapter on the end kind of like a dummy sparkplug you could screw in and out to adjust the gap on the fly. One coil could just barely make a spark at less than 1/4 inch, the other could spark almost twice that. Both petered out after a few minutes, after they warmed up. I know the odds of both going bad are twice as unlikely, but one was definitely worse than the other. That explains why it felt like my bike was only running on 2 cyls before it crapped out completely the other day when it was hot. And after a few minutes cooling off it would run, but again like it was on half its cyls. Then after I let it set for 30 mins it cranked up and ran on all cyls, even if it was still missing occasionally. One of the only situations I can think of that would cause both coils to fail around the same time would be jump starting off of a running car. I'm afraid that if the previous owner tried that I may have more than just coil problems. This bike has had ever single electrical system knackered in some form or another.
-Kyle -picked up "knackered" from watching TopGear ;) On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Dennis Hammerl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How did you determine that ? Do you know what the odds of both going bad at > the same are ? Fall back and regroup. Fill me in. > > --- On *Fri, 9/26/08, Kyle Munz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > From: Kyle Munz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Coils? > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 3:06 PM > > I finally got a chance to take a break from himmicane cleanup to look at my > bike today. Turns out the coils are dead, or we don't know how to work a > multimeter. I'm fairly confident in my multimeter skills so I'm going to go > with dead coils. Anyone have any recommendations on aftermarkets or stick > with OEM? > > -Kyle > -83CB650SC > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
