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Post by greginisn on Dec 1, 2017 2:46:39 GMT -5
the last mystery solved, the ground pin inside of the CDI connector was almost broken in half, and making intermittent contact, it started up and ran, then the pin broke the rest of the way. I just ordered some pins from parts for scooters. I'll just replace all five. Great solution! How do you propose. Oh crap, never mind, as I re read your quote I see you are saying the pin in the connector is toast, not the CDI’s connector. Great fix and good luck. Greg
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Post by lostforawhile on Dec 1, 2017 13:39:53 GMT -5
I wish it was the plug,I could epoxy it back together, but I'm stuck waiting on some little pins
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Post by lostforawhile on Dec 1, 2017 13:42:14 GMT -5
What's aggregating is the harness measured ok all the way to the plug, just enough metal to measure
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Post by greginisn on Dec 1, 2017 21:21:10 GMT -5
Ohm meters can lie like that. Maybe someday there will be an ohmmeter that will say, "Oh yes you have continuity but this wire can't carry any useful amount of current" That would be nice.
Greg
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Post by lostforawhile on Dec 1, 2017 22:10:18 GMT -5
Ohm meters can lie like that. Maybe someday there will be an ohmmeter that will say, "Oh yes you have continuity but this wire can't carry any useful amount of current" That would be nice. Greg I should have made up a harness with a battery and test light, that would have showed me the issue right away
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Post by lostforawhile on Dec 1, 2017 22:12:33 GMT -5
a single element tailight bulb, and a small battery and a couple of test leads would have worked
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Post by greginisn on Dec 2, 2017 2:23:07 GMT -5
That would make a great test lamp!
Greg
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Post by FrankenMech on Dec 2, 2017 19:13:58 GMT -5
I carry a light bulb socket with bulb and a couple leads for just that reason. I just use the scoot battery. It is lightweight but the bulb is easily broken.
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Post by gsx600racer on Dec 13, 2017 1:37:23 GMT -5
Glad to see you finally figured out the issue. You had several threads with this scooter not running.
So with all the CDI's, coils, stators and flywheel that you purchased because you thought were bad, are you going to go back and check to see if these parts actually work seeing now you have pinned the issue down to the cdi plug ?
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Post by lostforawhile on Dec 13, 2017 7:30:58 GMT -5
Glad to see you finally figured out the issue. You had several threads with this scooter not running. So with all the CDI's, coils, stators and flywheel that you purchased because you thought were bad, are you going to go back and check to see if these parts actually work seeing now you have pinned the issue down to the cdi plug ? that was just the final issue, I had multiple failures at once, did you not see the pictures of the flywheel where the top half of the tab on it, was missing? Who does that happen to? That fixed the trigger signal issue. I have several stators with low output voltage in eithier the charge coil or charging or lighting outputs and several dead cdi boxes and two open circuit coils
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Post by lostforawhile on Dec 13, 2017 12:12:28 GMT -5
One of those stators was so poorly done, that the lead wires weren't routed in the reliefs in the winding cores, so the inside of the flywheel destroyed all the lead wires,as soon as it was turned over, I could have caught that one, but amszon covered it, I probably could solder on new wires, but if the construction was that piss poor,to begin with, I'm not trusting the windings. One of the other bad stators, that had a bad charge coil, I unwound the charge coil, and found what looks like machine damage to the wire coating. I'm not sure if it was hand or machine wound,but whatever the wire was feeding through, it chewed up about 4 feet of it
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Post by FrankenMech on Dec 13, 2017 17:20:04 GMT -5
4 feet of bad insulation could certainly cause some problems. A lot of coils are 'helter-skelter' wound and are not worth beans. Vacuum impregnating the coils with epoxy or urethane can help, -but who does that except DOD contractors.
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Post by lostforawhile on Dec 14, 2017 13:45:05 GMT -5
It would have been faster to just replace everything at once,since I was looking at 8 simultaneous problems, some of them were,bad stator, bad cdi,bad flywheel, connector issues,fuel filter bits in my jet,failing petcock, new battery quit,starter quit, that's just some of them,on a 2000 mile bike. What a nightmare
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