Spark plug wire source

I have searched on here and not found an answer. I need some new plug wires. They are the screw on type at the coil end. Even Kawasaki does not list replacements for these. Does anyone know where I can get some new ones? Mine are all in pretty bad shape. When I put new plugs in two of them came apart at the plug end. I had to trim the end to get them back together, but they are stretched to the max.

You will want to hang onto the caps that screw onto the coils and pick up a wire kit. www.z1enterprises.com has 7mm Dyna kits.

Check the links section at the right hand side of this page. Scroll down beneath the list of members online. You should find a listing of parts suppliers. I would check Z1 Enterprises. I have stock coils on my bike and the ignition wires screw into two holes in the coil. Inside the hole is a metal point or screw which goes up into the ignition wire. The ignition wire is held in place on the coil with a black plastic collar. Does this sound like yours?

I have been known to go to an automotive parts store and just buy about 4 feet of auto wire of the same diameter as the old but then I'm a bit of peasant - any port in a storm.

Yes that sounds like mine. So I can buy regular wires, and just remove the collars and caps and just put them on the new wires?

Post edited by: 750LTDRider, at: 2006/08/26 21:02

Sure. Buy non-resistor wires at any autoparts store. 7mm auto wire works fine and you can also get an ACCEL Universal kit which includes the plug caps. The 4 cylinder kit works fine. Only issue will be opening up your coil screw-on caps a bit for the bigger wires. If you get generic non-resistor type 7mm wire (usually in spools in the back), go to a bike shop and buy some new NGK non-resistor plug caps. Don't mix and match resistor and non-resistor type stuff.

Wiredgeorge, reading your post just made me think of something. Someone had replaced one of the caps on the wires before I got this bike. So I went out and checked it, and its a NGK 5K ohm cap. I think I just found my problem with cylinder #1. I had noticed that #1 exhaust is not running as hot, and a little white smoke out of that side. I got to go see if I can pick up some wires today.