Dyna Coil Mounting Help

Hey guys,

I recently had some issues with the ignition. I'm almost certain that the issue was the plug wires, so I ordered new Dyna wires, and a crimping tool from Z1. By mistake, Z1 sent me the wires and a set of green 3 ohm coils. (I let them know and ended up buying the coils too instead of sending them back). Now I have the coils all set up with all wires attached. I went out to the garage today to attach the coils to the mounting brackets, and then the frame, but the stock coil brackets don't quite fit the coils right. :ohmy: I'm sure someone here has run into this problem, so I'm looking for advice how to mount the coils so they won't be in the way of putting the tank back on.

Thanks in advance for any tips,

~Clutch

Forgot to mention, this is my '82 kz 750 e3 I'm working on

Pictures? It will help if we can see the problem. Most Kawasaki ignition coils have spacers in the mounting hardware so the coils will fit. The green Dyna coils being larger in diameter, may require some custom work to get them to fit.

Fairly recently here,someone had similar coil mounting problems, I think he had to have the ignition sparkplug wires laying on top of the valve cover to get the space for the tank.

One solution would have been to cut out some of the stock bracket. The one I ended up going with was a few cheap parts at Lowe's (less than $10). I got a set of 4 corner brackets, 4 6 m 1.0 bolts and 4 6 m 1.0 nuts. I tried to take pics tonight, but my battery died in my camera. It's charging now and I will post pics tomorrow

Ok here are some pics of how I fixed the problem:



It's a little blurry, but you can see I used a corner bracket, with the original spacers on the stock bracket



Finished 2/3 side coil install



Added bonus, I used the provided ring terminals on the coil, with a small piece of wire and on this end, you can see I added a male blade terminal to easily connect to the original wiring. This will make removal easy when I need to do so.

If it were me, I'd get a spray can of the elctrical contact cleaner preservative "De-Oxit" from Radio Shack or other electronic supply places and spray your coil connections. De-Oxit increases the electrical contact for more efficiencies.

Also if posible, on the coil connections, try to add a strain relief as I can see that vibration and wnd turbulance will have the wiring flexing and moving around, possible breaking a connection, stranding you.

Put a dab of the clear RTV compound on the primary coil connections, this will retain the screws, preventing them from vibrating out, but still allow easy removal.

When I did the green coils on my 1982 GPz1100, I used the weatherpack connections used in modern cars to make up short "Pigtails". This allows me to unplug the coils and not have to deal with the primary connections.