Check for spark at all four. --- On Sun, 8/2/09, Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Ohm specs for bike... To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 12:07 AM Bob says it sounds like it's losing two but he can't tell because of the way that it acts. It wants to go but there's not enough power to push it. Ignition or coils? We'll have to check. We'll let you know what we find out. Thanks Dennis. HotrodMamma. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Hammerl To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:12 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Ohm specs for bike... Lose all four or just two ? --- On Sat, 8/1/09, Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> wrote: From: Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Ohm specs for bike... To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 2:17 PM Hi Dennis! Bob put new plug wires and plugs in it already. Now it cuts out and dies intermittently. Then it starts up and goes again. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Hammerl To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:12 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Ohm specs for bike... It's Saturday, I'm at home, manuals at work. However.. it has two coils. Therefore if they aren't the same or almost the same, one (or both) must be bad. (Sherlock again) Measure both and compare. or as Dennis G says, swap and see what happens. This bike has a problem ? Like what ? On old V's you can change the plug wires. Always a good move. Originals are carbon core, replace with real wire. The front one are kinda' long too. Plug caps are resistor type, check all four (5~10Kohm@). Probabilities are: small failure rate of coils, more often CDI, frequent grounds on old bikes. Renew grounds at coil mountings and remember that it has two complete ignition systems. If one works, you have parts to swap with the one that doesn't to troubleshoot it. Swap coils, swap CDI, swap pulsers. I'm betting on plug wires after all these years. Only takes a few minutes to diagnose a failure on one of those. --- On Sat, 8/1/09, Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> wrote: From: Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Ohm specs for bike... To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 1:44 PM Hey fellas....Bob has an '83 V45 Magna. He wants to check the coil but there's no Ohm specs in his book...anybody know the answer to this riddle? Thanks! HotrodMamma. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
