ran the bike for about 10 min with the choke on, and shut it, and it died. Pulled the plugs out, and to my suprise, they are turning tan(were sooty black). Well, I decided to pull the carbs off again(not sure what I'm going to change this time, think I'll drop the needle to the 4th clip). Well, anyways, while I had the carbs off, I decided to play with the motor a lil. I put my hand over the 1st boot on the motor and cranked it(make sure it was moving air), did nothing but crank. When I did it to the 2nd cyl., the engine would fire on the 2nd cyl. Weird, I thought. Same thing on no. 3. Holding my hand over the boot would cause the cyl. to fire. no. 4 did nothing. A-HA!
pulled the plugs and laid them on the block. well, they are firing a yellow-blue spark. Grabbed my scope, hooked it up to the coils wires, and instead of a nice square, it looks like a slope. Would go straight up, level off, and go at a 45 back down. Checked coil no. 2&3, straight up, level off, straight down.
I think the only thing that would cause this is a bad condensor. I tested the points with my scope, and they had a nice square wave. The condensor is bad. I have a new set for my bike that I am going to donate to my buddys bike. Will install them first thing in the AM. I will definately post back and let you know how it goes. This bike is becoming a headache......