I've been able to spend a little more time working on my barn find, and now have lights but no spark. The other day I was ordering an exhaust clamp for the balance pipe and was on the phone with Roger over at RGM. While he was looking up part numbers, I mentioned my problem and he suggested I run a wire from the battery straight to the coils, excellent idea which I thanked him for. Anyway now that I'm ready to do it, my question is: will I need to go from the negative side of the battery to each negative side of the coils ( bike is still a positive ground stock system). I had some corrosion issues with the kill switch that I addressed, but still no spark. I have new plugs and wires and cleaned the points with some sand paper. I'm wanting to switch to an electronic system, but really wanted to try and get it going before tearing it down too far.
A dremel tool with a small wire brush wheel, needle nosed pliers, a flat blade screw driver and a scribe helped to clean the kill switch up ( will probably ditch the whole brake master cylinder, throttle & switch gear cluster in favor of a newer one). But in the mean time, I"m gona have to use this one.
A dremel tool with a small wire brush wheel, needle nosed pliers, a flat blade screw driver and a scribe helped to clean the kill switch up ( will probably ditch the whole brake master cylinder, throttle & switch gear cluster in favor of a newer one). But in the mean time, I"m gona have to use this one.