To spark or not to spark!!

"Do you know what you're doing dad? Ha ha!!"

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Right oh then, the replacement CDI has arrived, along with the replacement Regulator / rectifier.
As today was my day off, I decided to crack on with fitting and wiring everything and seeing what happened. This all had to wait until the afternoon, as the boss had some "Jobs" for me to do!!
Well, jobs done, I ventured outside to the bike, removed the covers, and set to work.


Firstly, I decided to un cover all the looms which I had previously covered, as I wanted to see for definite, which colour was which, and generally check everything was correct. I also had to expose the defunct 3rd generator wire, as I could now wire it into the reg/ rect unit. As the loom is for a 600, I had to make up a new wire for this 3rd output, but it all fitted fine.


Next I found which wires were the exciter coil wires, fitted them, and wired up the CDI. After about 1 hour, it was all done. I fitted the battery. I then felt a little nervous, would I now get a spark? Is the CDI ok ?
Turned the ignition to on, laid the plug on the head, kick...kick...kick..NO SPARK!! Bugger!!
Checked all connections again, all ok, so I decided to try a different coil, which I had bought a while ago, and found was the wrong one. After a bit of bodging about, fitting an earth to it for one, I switched the ignition to on again...Kick..SPARKS!!!!
Hurrah!!  It works!!
So, I now know that all is well, apart from the coil. I will try and fit this new coil tomorrow somehow, it looks do-able, but if not, I'll get a replacement.
At least I can now crack on, didn't want to buy anything more until I knew the thing would at least try and run!!
Tune in tomorrow for updates!!