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I have been slowly working at getting my old Savage to run. I did have it running earlier, but went back to working on the wiring as much of the system was bypassed by the former owner, such as the clutch switch, the decompression system, the neutral switch, et al.
I worked slowly and methodically yesterday putting all the wiring back to rights with a new decomp controller in place. I buttoned it all up yesterday afternoon and today took it out to start it and hopefully give it its first road test. No luck, although I could hear and see ther decomp working now the motor would not start. As I mentioned earlier I had gotten it started before, but it took lots of turnign over and recharging to get it to fire then.
Today, I got nothing. It didn't even attemtp to fire. So, off went the seat and tank again.
First things first. I checked the resistance of the coil and although I had no choice but to test it cold (the manual said to do it warm) both resistance measurements were spot on.
Next, I hooked my spark tester up to the spark plug lead, snapped it onto a head fin, and hit the starter. I got a spark (weak) for just an instant and then nothing. I checked continuity for the leads between the ignitor and the coil and both were good. Just for good measure I sprayed the contacts down with contact cleaner and cleaned up the coil temrinals and then reattached everything, hooked up the spark tester again, and got the same results--a spark, then nothing.
So, my conclusion so far is I have a bad ignitor, or perhaps still it is a bad coil with an intermittent failure/success. The book gives me no way to test the ignitor, so I may call Suzuki next time they are open and see what they would charge to bench test mine. There are slews on ebay, but I am a bit leary of buying one of these used just on the word of the seller that it is "good." Unfortunately, new is around $250. I might even be willing to pay that if I can be sure that is the problem. Of course, I could buy a (cheaper) new coil first and eliminate that as the culprit.
Any idea would be appreciated. Any alternative coil I could buy?
Cheers,
Mike, sparkless in Florida
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