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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: pull Reply #30 - 02/17/07 at 07:58:17 Jason wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:02: I have the battery off and in the house right now. when i was testing things i even put a battery box jumper on the battery conn. and still no fire. it should be nice on monday a i'll have time Have you had the battery load checked? A good bike shop should do it for free.
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: pull Reply #31 - 02/17/07 at 14:21:59 Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:02: Have you had the battery load checked? A good bike shop should do it for free. Sears and Autozone will also do it for free.
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jason Ex Member	Re: pull Reply #32 - 03/21/07 at 09:14:26 OK IT TOOK THIS LONG TO FIND OUT WHAT THE PROB. WAS. IT'S THE STATOR COIL.
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georgekathe Ex Member	Re: pull Reply #33 - 03/21/07 at 10:13:31 good to here you finally solved problem - is it running fine now?
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: pull Reply #34 - 03/21/07 at 10:25:39 Jason wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: OK IT TOOK THIS LONG TO FIND OUT WHAT THE PROB. WAS. IT'S THE STATOR COIL. How did you find that out?
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Rockin_John Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Posts: 1562 +36° 10' , -95° 48' Gender:	Re: pull Reply #35 - 03/21/07 at 11:31:18 Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: How did you find that out? He probably asked real nice. Not to worry, I've already bought one for it. I tested mine with my DVM. It should be good. I have a U-Haul reserved for tomorrow to go pick the bike up! Thanks Jason!
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: pull Reply #36 - 03/21/07 at 13:07:11 Rockin_John wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: He probably asked real nice. Not to worry, I've already bought one for it. I tested mine with my DVM. It should be good. I have a U-Haul reserved for tomorrow to go pick the bike up! Thanks Jason! Your name is Jason, now?
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aussie_biker

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Reply #37 - 03/21/07 at 19:03:36

Jason wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:02:

I'm new at this sight so bear with me. 1999 savage will crank all day long but will not fire over. when i pull it behind the truck it will fire over. After that it runs and sounds great. when it is hot it'll fire right up, but when it's cold it just cranks. someone told me to change the spark plug so i did. first i checked the old one for fire and got nothing. went and got a new ngk and still no fire. it does have power going into the coil. i chked it with a light tester. can anyone help please

My bike was doing that too.Everything seemed to work but no spark.New coil & cdi = still no spark.Then discovered wiring not quite connected in handlebar switch.Fixed that then nothing worked at all.
Found by holding horn switch & playing with earth lead from battery it would work.Hopefully new earth lead will sort things out.

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Reply #38 - 03/21/07 at 21:28:36

aussie_biker wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

My bike was doing that too.Everything seemed to work but no spark.New coil & cdi = still no spark.Then discovered wiring not quite connected in handlebar switch.Fixed that then nothing worked at all.
Found by holding horn switch & playing with earth lead from battery it would work.Hopefully new earth lead will sort things out.

Sorry to hear such tough luck there bud. Ground (earth) problems are the bane of working with electrons running anywhere down a pipe (wire). Thankfully on bikes we mostly deal with DC circuits and don't have to worry about ghostly problems like ground loops which can cause noise or be downright deadly in some electronic gear. One of my other hobbies is working on and building tube type guitar amplifiers, and it sometimes stuns me how some 'old' designs worked so well, and yet a supposedly modern 'star' ground design can give you fits with noise.

Hope the new ground wire solves it all for you. I certainly have personally known it to be the source of all kinds of weird problems on vehicles with more than two wheels.

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