wreckedmyteg wrote:
I don't have a timing light, just a 12v bulb with a wire soldered to it.
I don't think I want to stick the lead in the spark plug wire, cause I'm sure if the coil did send a spark it'd surely fry the bulb.
So when the point breaks the circuit, that's when the coil fires. Got it.
Does anybody know of a similar coil I could use as a replacement? I was told it just had to be a dual output 4 ohm coil.
I'm just gonna keep answering your questions until somebody tells me I'm wrong...
Ok, I thought you were testing with a timing light. You need a timing light anyway, so get one! Then try it on the spark plug wires. I was just suggesting you trace the failure from the coil, since you're sure you've got happiness *to* the coil. No, don't zap your little light!
Of course the wires themselves, or the caps, might be bad. You could just replace them, and somebody else has a thread going on right now about that....
If I understand it correctly, during the part of the crank cycle when the points are open (the gap), they are allowing the coil to charge. When they close, they cause the coil to fire. Actually, some really great descriptions of the process have been posted here before, perhaps in the archive. So if I'm wrong, it's easy enough to find out.
As for the coil, dual output is correct. I just installed a Dyna Dual Output 3.0 Ohm Coil on my 750 twin...