81 650H ignition for dummies

82KZ305Belt wrote:

What a farce. I called the nearest decent shop 30 miles away and they said they had aftermarket LB05F . Drove 30 miles and they pulled out E caps, for plug nuts but I removed the nuts when I bought my plugs and didn't save them. On to the next store, another 15 miles, that said they had them. But they only had non-resistor caps, and they only had 2, so I bought one. When I put that one on #2 the bike was hard to start and runs rough.   

So I will replace all the wires and caps now but I may have to order them all online.  And I suspect I will still have problems. 

I found an old post where you describe how to make your own. Seems pretty simple, but when you say "7mm copper core wire" is that any old copper wire or does it have to be "7mm copper core spark plug wire?"

82KZ305Belt wrote:

What a farce. I called the nearest decent shop 30 miles away and they said they had aftermarket LB05F . Drove 30 miles and they pulled out E caps, for plug nuts but I removed the nuts when I bought my plugs and didn't save them. On to the next store, another 15 miles, that said they had them. But they only had non-resistor caps, and they only had 2, so I bought one. When I put that one on #2 the bike was hard to start and runs rough.   

So I will replace all the wires and caps now but I may have to order them all online.  And I suspect I will still have problems. 

I found an old post where you describe how to make your own. Seems pretty simple, but when you say "7mm copper core wire" is that any old copper wire or does it have to be "7mm copper core spark plug wire?"

rickysnicker wrote:

I replaced the wires and spark plug boots on my bike.  I used the 7mm plug wires and non-resistor boots.  It seems that the non-resistor spark plugs are going the way of the Do-Do.  I bought resistor plugs, as they are earlier to find.