Was out plowing snow for an hour, turned it off for an hour and it never came to life again. There is no spark at all. I saw something about disconnecting the black wire on the rev limiter so I tried it and it didn't help. Anyone have experience with this or know of a common problem with these?

 

try d/c the black wire on the cdi box.

 

pulled black cdi wire... nothing.

 

check your spark plug wire connections. the cap could have screwed loose from the wire or even the little cap that is ontop of the spark plug could have unscrewed

 

Its prolly going to be the stator,check ebay they have some on there.

 

I did have the plug wire and coil out. Is there a resistance check I can do on the coil? Don't remember exactly, but I think I had .7 ohms on the primary side and 5.7k on the hi-pot. side. Hard to say if I was checking the right points, but with the wire connected to the coil it was always open circuit when checking the plug cap to ground or primary terminal, but I took the plug wire out of the coil and the wire & cap was 67 ohms. I should maybe try another wire and cap b4 digging into the stator?? CDI ever a problem on these?

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: idiot savant

I did have the plug wire and coil out. Is there a resistance check I can do on the coil? Don't remember exactly, but I think I had .7 ohms on the primary side and 5.7k on the hi-pot. side. Hard to say if I was checking the right points, but with the wire connected to the coil it was always open circuit when checking the plug cap to ground or primary terminal, but I took the plug wire out of the coil and the wire & cap was 67 ohms. I should maybe try another wire and cap b4 digging into the stator?? CDI ever a problem on these?</end quote></div>

[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] Resistance on coil about .3 ohms on primary, 5k ohm plug cap. Coils and the cdi rarely go out,mainly in stator area,trigger or charge coil in the stator. Could check/replace coil wire,could be problem?,plus you are right on plug cap being on high side,but did you see if has fire from bare coil wire to head?

 

Is there anyway to check the trigger or charger coil in the stator? I have a 97 thats doing the same thing.

 

I changed the plug and cap and still a big goose egg. Will removing the black wire from the cdi and/or rev limiter eliminate all switches in the Hi, Lo, Rev selector and override button on the handlebar? switch in throttle control is good. also, any way to ohm the stator b4 I spend a bunch of $$ on new stator? thanks for everyone's help!

 

There are resistance specs for trigger and charge coil,DONT have info on hand,but some posters may have your year model manual and help. 97 and 98 should be pretty close if not the same. I thing if memory serves me? Charge coil about 440-460 ohms? trigger ( white and white/red wires) I think about 97 ohms ? Give or take 20%