Not so encouraging

 I wanted something to get my teeth stuck into and I have bitten.  The past couple of days I have been in the garage well before 0600 and I spend most of my computer time watching instructional videos. Two days ago I was struggling to remove the fairing and posted a question asking for help on a Facebook forum. I got some very helpful replies but I also got this.

Not exactly helpful. I guess some people just don't like changes to the original. 

I knew that the bike wouldn't start when I bought it, that's why it was so cheap. I think it might be a good idea to try and get it running before stripping it down completely. I started by checking for a spark and there wasn't one. The solenoid is working as is the starter motor and the battery is charged. Maybe it's the coils, Google search and I borrow a multimeter from my old physics lab. I assume that the Earth is the central iron core and test the resistance of the primary and secondary coil. The secondary coils seem to be broken. Bingo! Late last night I lay in bed wondering if the core really is the Earth. Google confirms but I find another video measuring the resistance between the two HT leads. Hmm I will have to try this test too. In some ways I hope it is the coils since then I have solved the problem but in other ways I hope it isn't since coils are expensive.

To get at the coils I had to remove the fairing, petrol tank and air filter box. It's -6 in the garage and all the rubber hoses are very stiff. This resulted in a broken pipe on the air filter box, something I will have to come back to later. I also broke off the end of one of the HT leads.

Well I was wrong but I learnt something interesting. Both plugs attached to the same coil   fire at the same time. One is a dead fire since it is happening on the exhaust stroke of the engine. The 2 plugs form a circuit joined by the engine block, well it's not really a circuit since there are two spark gaps. Its not like my car where the engine is Earth and the plugs positive. So to measure the resistance of the secondary you attach the meter to each lead. I did this and got 30k Ohms which is 10k for each cap and 10k for the coil which is about right. Oh well back to Google.

I was worried that I had forgotten to record which wire fits on each connector of the coil. I shouldn't have worried, each spade connector is a different size.
 I have found this:


 































I think this will be helpful. First I am going to try connecting to my car battery. to see if it's simply because the battery lacks power. When I charged it it never got to completely charged so maybe this is the problem.

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