As stated before, I believe this bike has been locked in a room with 3 chimps, wirecutters, ducttape, and a wall socket. It still rides smooth when it runs tho.
-Kyle On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Creative Residential Designs < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's amazing how much damage a previous owner can do Kyle! Especially on > the electrical.... > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Kyle Munz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Friday, September 26, 2008 11:32 PM > *Subject:* [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Coils? > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
