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Old Apr 16, 2026 | 02:40 PM
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I have a 1996 foreman 400 I'm needing help with. I have no spark, or very little coming from the coil. I can take the spark plug cap off and crank the engine and barely feel anything with my hand. I have tested the alternator charging coil (stator), on all three yellow wires I'm getting a reading of 0.2. I have checked for continuity between all three yellow wires and ground, there is no continuity. I have pulled the plug off my regulator and checked voltage there I'm getting 14.32 volts that is with a battery charger hooked up. Charging coil line reading of 0.2 ground wire getting continuity. My ignition pulse generator is showing a reading of 337. Ignition switch is showing good. I have pulled the coil off my rancher and tried on the foreman still no fire, but tested the coil anyway and it shows good. I have a rectifier on order waiting for it to get here. I tried my rancher rectifier on it still no fire, and tried my foreman rectifier on the rancher and it started right up. I'm running out of ideas, what should I check next? Maybe the cdi box? Thanks for any help I can get
 
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Old Apr 16, 2026 | 09:21 PM
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I got my problem figured out with some help, my cousin and one of his relatives came up today and took a cdi box from a foreman 450 and put on there. It then had spark, I put my gas tank temporarily on and it fired up without any issues.
 
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Old Apr 17, 2026 | 03:55 AM
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Test the wires to the CDI. Sometimes CDIs just go bad but it is always best practice to check something hasn't blown it. You can blow a CDI if it has a bad earth or if the voltage reg is overcharging, more than 15v across the battery, at any revs, and the regulator is faulty.
 
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