little help

[James K]

Took the family to the dunes this past weekend. Bought the boy a 98 blaster, with a few mods done to it. Standard stuff like wide front arms, fmf pipe and silencer, nerf bars and a uni filter.

The bike ran great all day saturday, But then we went for one last ride just as it was getting dark. And wouldn't you know it just as he is coming down the face of a bowl his blaster dies . I think no big deal go over to try and get it started and nothing. swap plugs, still nothing. Tow it back to camp. start checking things and ends up it is not getting any spark.

I am baffled was running awesome and then nothing.

What the hell could it be?

long winded? yes, I know.

Thanks, James

 

[Blasterb0y794]

it could be your ignition coil

 

[Blaster.240]

I would check all the wirering because I went out on a ride and my blaster just suddenly died. so I took off the carb thinking that it was a gas problem, nope so I tried to see if I was geting a spark I wasn't so I took off the hood and shure enough a conector was undone. I wasted an hour trying to find what the problem was and it was just a disconected wire.

 

[B_Rad_NC]

Check the connections coming from the stator and make sure theyre all connected, Check the coil wire under the seat too. Ive had that come loose on me. On one of my warriors i had a handlebar switch "go bad" (no idea how it did that) But i changed out the switch and it worked. lol

 

[B_Rad_NC]

Oh yea.... Check your flywheel key. You wont be able to tell its sheared unless you pull the stator cover off and check it out. Also pull the hood and check your switches, if one wire comes unplugged itll kill spark. You can test the key switch by unplugging it all the way and just leaving the wires, to check if that went bad. What year is the blaster?

 

[hickskateboarder]

can't believe no one said 'remove TORS' yet

 

[James K]

Oh yea.... Check your flywheel key. You wont be able to tell its sheared unless you pull the stator cover off and check it out. Also pull the hood and check your switches, if one wire comes unplugged itll kill spark. You can test the key switch by unplugging it all the way and just leaving the wires, to check if that went bad. What year is the blaster?

what am I looking for when checking the flywheel key? I have checked all the wires to make sure they are plugged in right, it has no key switch.

It's a '98.

what are the odds the cdi box sh*t the bed?

as far as the tors, I tried unplugging all the stuff but, no luck.

I am just under the gun to get it fixed, we are going back to the dunes on mothers day weekend.

 

[B_Rad_NC]

since it has no keyswitch theres a possiblity that something is grounding out and killing the spark because theres 2 wires there. Also its a possiblity that since the idiot before you did some work to the wiring that he did something wrong and shorted it out, burning up the cdi, or even better the entire stator. Ive done that before




To check the flywheel key pull the stator cover off (cover on left side, should be held on with phillips head screws) and see if the flywheel and crank move at the same time, and if the flywheel moves without the crank then the key is sheared.

 

[James K]

since it has no keyswitch theres a possiblity that something is grounding out and killing the spark because theres 2 wires there. Also its a possiblity that since the idiot before you did some work to the wiring that he did something wrong and shorted it out, burning up the cdi, or even better the entire stator. Ive done that before




To check the flywheel key pull the stator cover off (cover on left side, should be held on with phillips head screws) and see if the flywheel and crank move at the same time, and if the flywheel moves without the crank then the key is sheared.

well, I got spark now. But still no start. Did a compression check. Which was very disappointing. Pulled the top end a part and there you have it a fryed piston. Oh well, buying parts tomorrow and fix it this weekend.


Thanks for all the help.

James

 

[Blaster.240]

That is good news, some times that happens but from now on if you keep you blaster tuned it will run forever.