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Post by minesweeper on Jul 7, 2014 23:37:49 GMT -6
Agree with Alley, what's going on with your electricals, is it DC or AC? What do you have going into your CDI? How about a pic? That would help. Your spark genesis is generally not going to tank from the lights dimming. If you have a magneto dedicated AC wire to the CDI, that is your spark power right there and is completely separate from the charging and lighting wires. If in fact it is a DC powered CDI, that is from the battery, then the overall bike voltage feasibly could affect the spark. Alley's infamous, and quite clever, check to see if you have a DC powered system is to see if you have a wire into the CDI that gets 12v DC hot when the key is on. I would say that is in the two port but this is a Zuma so who knowsa? The killwire has a diode on it into the CDI so all bets are off. How about a pic and how about seeing if you have a 12v DC wire into the CDI?
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Post by minesweeper on Jul 5, 2014 20:41:49 GMT -6
That's not a fuel pump, it's a fuel valve. Alley is spot on as usual, do the valve thing and check the vac line for gas. The diaphragm at the valve starts to leak and gas runs down into the intake manifold. Boom, you're too rich and it runs like crap. I lose the vac valves for manual valves, they don't fail unless you forget to turn them on.....then you soon find out.
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Post by minesweeper on Jun 13, 2014 20:45:19 GMT -6
This is going to sound completely off the wall, but I had the same thing happen and it turned out to be the coil. It was a combination of erratic spark and mildly aberrant fuel delivery. If you have another coil around just swap it out and see if it makes a difference, if not...well then now we know.
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Post by minesweeper on Jun 13, 2014 20:38:57 GMT -6
So they cut off and don't come back on at all? They don't flicker on and off....just shut off? But all the other lights are normal? Well, if it was the R/R it would be affecting other lights.......hmmm. It's got to be a heating issue. Pull the cowling and inspect the headlight connections. See if any of them appear to be getting hot. Look at the bulb too and see if anything looks hot. Then check for continuity on the grounds. Then we'll go from there.
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Post by minesweeper on May 9, 2014 22:02:17 GMT -6
True that bud. I've made it a goal of mine to ride the SYM out to Arkie land sometime this year and see the mouth from the south in person. We will bump fists just like that, or he will punch me in the mouth...his call. I kinda approached him about this before but he said whenever I was going to show up...he'd be out of town. Hear the knock on the screen door Jack?! That's the Bama Bum staying for a month! I can sleep on the porch...no problem....I do at home. I'm serious, I'm coming. Rich
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Post by minesweeper on Jan 29, 2014 12:18:14 GMT -6
Hey, it's me, Rich aka Bashan from Scooter Doc. I didn't mean to be rude by not posting following the armistice brokered by Alleyoop (think Henry Kissinger), and TVnACman (think Mother Teresa). It's just that we're experiencing a winter storm here of epic proportions and I've been busy trying to escape from this damn house! There's a vehicle graveyard blocking the entrance to our neighborhood from cars that slid off the road, crashed into other vehicles, or were abandoned by the driver who didn't think they could make it in their car. So until they move all those vehicles I can't get out to my ballet lesson. The storm actually isn't the worst by any means. What WAS the worst was the forecast. They were calling for flurries turning to light snow and then 1 to 3". Instead the flurries were exchanged for wet snow that promptly turned to ice and then covered with about 4" of snow. It isn't getting above freezing today which isn't helping one bit. Everybody was caught off guard.
Rapid Jim summed it up nicely when he said things were said in anger that we undoubtedly were sorry were uttered. I can say that is definitely true for me. I did things and said things surrounding the ever escalating debacle that raged between Jr and myself that I am not proud of and wish never happened. But they did happen and for those transgressions I apologize to JR. As with any conflict between two really smart and really good looking guys, both dashing yet dapper hunks of man flesh, they both feel that they were wronged in some manner or they would have never ended up in the mess in the first place. The only way I can see to right this wrong is to meet JR on the field of honor with pistols and if you think I'm going to get within two states of a gunbattle with JR you are bat crap crazy!! Whew! That ain't going to happen! Maybe a John Wayne movie trivia contest. Hmmm, no, he'd kick my ass at that too. Oh I know! Whoever can name the most legends of chiropractic wins! Yep, feeling pretty good about that one.
I can only say that at that point in my life I was stretched pretty thin emotionally. I felt Jack did some things wrong as he feels I did some things wrong. It quickly spiraled out of control until the tenuous threads of reason that may have brought the beast back to Earth were broken. Certainly wars have been started in much the same manner. If Jack and I had a little more sway in our respective states we could have plunged the entire southeast into an apocalyptic Earth scorching. Well, as you can see, I turn into a humor tsunami when things get tense for me. It's the only coping mechanism I have.  Rich
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