Replacement for inductive pickup?

Ah the joys of street parking. I have been out of town for two weeks and had no choice but to park my bike on the streets in chicago. While I was gone, some enterprising individual managed to unscrew my pickup cover (and take it), unscrew my inductive pickup, and cut the wires clean to remove it completely.

Thus, at the moment, I can't start the bike to move it to a storage garage.

So, anyone have advice on what to use to replace the pickup? Brand new one from powersportspro was 150. If I'm going to spend that, are there optical or hall effect sensors that might be better suited as an upgrade? Otherwise, is there somewhere I can get a cheaper up assembly?

I just snagged some from ebay for around $30. There is no substitute for that part in order to work with the igniter.

The Hall-effect and optical pickups are less reliable, in my opinion, to the original reluctors. They require different igniter systems anyway.

Here's some for $50:
ebay pickups

If your old pickups looked like these, then they are the ones. If anything, you may have to elongate the wires or splice the old connector on it.

The 82 Spectre diagram on Kawasaki.com looks like it shows these pickups. They use the small igniter box. (The Gpz and later 750's use an electronic advance unit with a much larger igniter box.)


If you absolutely need it today, I can probably get one to you this afternoon.

Post edited by: loudhvx, at: 2007/12/06 15:34

No no, i don't need it today. I'm just incredibly annoyed that old bikes on the street are apparently part bikes for anyone! It's also a bit odd, because I have a acewell tach on the thing, and it wasn't touched....so random. But thanks for the link, that's precisely what I"m looking for.

those low lifes should be strung up by there balls, bet that would stop them from messing with peoples bikes