Dyna Trouble shooting

I know I need to learn how to use a ohm's meter it would have helped others to help me.
I just got off the phone with Dynatek Told them what it was doing and how the old rotor fixed it and he told me that sometimes when they make those rotors the magnet gets put in backwards.
They are sending me a new rotor at no charge and to throw the other one away.
Pretty darn good guys to work with I'm very happy with their service.
Thanks again Patton & Omr
Omr...I need to check it out but what's its doing is the test light is very dim when you hookup for the static timing.

With the old rotor the bike fires up now and runs fine

Can anybody recommend a good quality ohmmeter with a low ohms range and does not reverse the polarity of the leads inside the meter ?

If you have a Harbor Freight Tools, can't beat this little beauty for the money...

Outside of the normal Voltage, resistance and amperage measurements, includes Tach, Dwell, temperature and capacitance all in one fairly cheap priced unit...



If just looking for a decent auto ranging digital volt meter (Voltage, Resistance and Amperage), Home Depot, Lowes, Radio Shack all have Digital Volt Meters for ~ $30...

Being somewhat of a dinosaur, I prefer the analog style meters (as shown being used in the FSM's, at least through 1979, and perhaps later years).

Advantages of analog meters include being inexpensive (the example pictured below is about $10), and aren't adversely affected by running engine's ignition system, which may influence readings on some digitals.

I have both analog and digital and invariably reach for the analog when using with the bikes.

For just one example, if a circuit has no resistance, the ohmmeter needle jumps across to max. Easy to see and understand. Like touching the probe tips together (yes, craig, as in tip toucher). And when measuring ohms in an ignition coil, it's easy to read the 3 ohms. Or secondary loop at 15+K ohms.

Same with the voltage readings. I trust that moving needle. Like tach and speedo, simply prefer sweeping needle as opposed to digital readings.

Good Fortune!

Thanks Omr I'll check that out.
Patton where would you find one of those? Ebay?

I believe a recent posting indicated availability at K-Mart.

Good Fortune!

Guess I missed the earlier post
Thanks

K-Mart's analog version is in this link submitted in another thread.

seanof30306 wrote:

...Here's what K-Mart has;
www.kmart.com/shc/s/search_10151_10104?k...rd=multimeter&vName=
....

Good Fortune!

Thankz again

Got the new rotor installed and timed the motor and runs great.
still going to buy a ohmmeter
Thankz again for the help.

Congrats ED....

BTW, those analog meters are fully functional meters for measuring Voltage, Amperage & Resistance...

Got one....GB Instruments GMT-312, came with owners manual gonna need that LOL