Ok, I was riding and my machine just shut down. Pulled the plug out, no spark, put a new one in, nothing. The wiring is fine from the switch to the tether. checked the coil per specs and it seems good. checked the pick up assembly ohms and that was ok. But when i measure the input wires to the coil with the key on, it shows 35.04 volts!!#@$ how can this be? has anybody had this problem and what was it??? thanks in advance

 

Ive got an 03 too and it has done that to me too....only thing I found was that the orange wire coming from the CDI was a little loose and after wiggling it abit it started up again.

 

My 02 did that, it was the stator bad, if thats the case call ricky stator, way cheaper then stock.

 

I did check the stator per specs in the clymer, and found that between the red wire coming out of the stator and ground>>> should be infinity but it's reading resistance, which means a short to ground, and it says replace the stator and pick up assembly, this is the first time I ever had a stator go bad, I would have never thought a stator would go bad, especially being an 03 ???

 

same with mine, I don't even have it anymore, this was over a year ago, I was just riding alone, shut it off and it never started again, till I put in a new stator. Like I said look up ricky stator!