Hey guys, I need some help.
76 Z1 900, motor has some work done, blah blah
Previous owner converted to DYNA S pickup and coils. The pickup/sensor is the one with two pickups and the little magnet on the crank. No moving parts.
The coils got damaged, so I did what I had done before to a couple of other bikes (including my old KZ1000 shaftie)
I wired in a Dodge Neon coil. Fired up, was only running on two cylinders. Shut off, swapped out to another Dodge Neon coil, Fired back up, same thing. Had ANOTHER Dodge Neon coil, fire up, same thing. Was hittin on 1/4, but nothing on 2/3. So I came inside to eat, went back out, and now have NO spark.
I have a brand new gel battery at 180 cca. New cables, and I did a GSXR full suspension swap on this thing, so I had the entire harness apart and rewire job for my triples/hand controls. I am 99% certain I got everything right with that.
Funny thing though. Whenever I am trying a new electrical system, I have a test light hooked up to the battery, just to see if there is some excessive "dimming" whenever I try things, just to see if there is a short somewhere before it actually kills something. I noticed when I would plug the NEON coils in, the light would dim a good bit. Then I noticed that if I took the crank pickup plate out, the light would be fine until I grounded it. I stripped the harness back down and everything was how it's supposed to be. ALmost like it was drawing a bunch or shorting out.
It doesn't do that now, though.... (the light dimmming thing). THere was NO burning smells, no smoke, no nothing. The pickups on the DYNA don't look swelled, cracked, etc. They look new.
I have a feeling that the DYNA S doesn't like just "any ol coils" hooked up to it, and I fried it. Say it ain't so.
thanks all