A few questions...

[NEONNIGHT34609]

RIGHT I:I see not so hard is it. just take your time. check ALL connections especially on that quad it looks like someone fingered that one up pretty good. just take each wire/circuit separate and make sure its right. dont look at ALL the wires as a whole because you will go nuts. follow each wire make sure its right and move on to the next.

Thanks again, I have plenty of different colored wire. So you are saying that if i shave the paint off of the frame where the coil is mounted(if there is any) then i won't have to add an extra ground from the coil to frame?

 

[Prime]

RIGHT I:I see not so hard is it. just take your time. check ALL connections especially on that quad it looks like someone fingered that one up pretty good. just take each wire/circuit separate and make sure its right. dont look at ALL the wires as a whole because you will go nuts. follow each wire make sure its right and move on to the next.

Whew, I thought I WAS gonna go crazy. I'm glad that I'm starting to understand this. I'm going back out to the shop for a little while and will put the status of spark and whether or not it runs when I get back on. Thank you again for the help!

 

[NEONNIGHT34609]

welcome. dont fix one wire and try to start it. go over all with wires first then see if it will run. make sure your wiring is right then you will know if you have a component issue and not a wire issue. alot of them wires under there are for your lights/kill switch and tors. from the looks of it i think your tors has been removed. on PRE 03 its pretty easy to remove BUT in doing so you might have a few wires that go no where because there is supose to be 3 boxes under the hood one is a regulator for your lights that the single wire metal box, one is the 3 wire CDI and another for your TORS i think thats also a 3 wire box. i didnt see your TORS box this is probably why someone "rewired" it to do away with the extra wires that are no longer needed when the TORS is removed.

 

[Larry's Shee]

Might be showing my age, but I believe if that coil has a + and - marked on it, it may be from something that had points& condensor. The + would be the hot lead from the dynamo, with the - going to points to ground, when the points open the field colapses and fires off the secondary field (plug). Therfore I wouldn't connect anything to the - side of that coil. Look closely at the coil to see if it is marked for voltage. I know that on my Elsinore it was only a 6 volt coil.

 

[Prime]

@Larry's Shee, I checked the coil and it is a 6V coil. But, there are no positive or negative markings on it. I do have spark though.

 

[Larry's Shee]

No telling how long it may last. At least you have spark !!!! Run it till it dies.

 

[Prime]

No telling how long it may last. At least you have spark !!!! Run it till it dies.

Haha. I will don't you worry. I:I

 

[NEONNIGHT34609]

did u get it runnin ? if so what did you find

 

[Prime]

did u get it runnin ? if so what did you find

No, didn't get it running today. I was way too busy today. I'm going to clean the carb tomorrow and try to get it running. I am also replacing the kickstart assembly since that is shot. Hopefully these will help. I also expect that it isn't jetted properly, since it has a full FMF exhaust and when we "pop started" it yesterday by pulling it around the yard, it sounded TERRIBLE and would not stay running. Of course that could've been the little spark it had. I will let you guys know how it turns out when I get out of work tomorrow.

 

[Larry's Shee]

No telling how long it may last. At least you have spark !!!! Run it till it dies.

Refering only to coil List up your set-up and jetting, someone will let you know if you're close

 

[NEONNIGHT34609]

"pop starting" is never good. did you happen to run a compression test on the motor? when you have the carb off look at the reeds and seal both sides of the cage before re-installing this way you will know that you have no air leak at that location.