87_shee Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 Well my bike has been working fine for the whole summer except a fried CDI (water), so I left for a ride today and not even 100 ft out of my driveway it just shut off. So i check my plugs for spark and they only spark somtimes. I have all the tors shit cut out and i have tested the whole harness for continuity and all the wires are good...Could this be my CDI again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajogejr Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 Hopefully....you have a Clymers. You can OHM the stator and Coil. Might be time for new plugs caps, known to go bad on stock wires. Remove the left side cover, and check for moisture, as well as check your flywheel air gap between the Magnets and the pickup coil. Normally, when a CDI goes bad, it doesn't spark at all. But, stranger things have happend. I'd also double check your kill switches, key and your grounds, too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87_shee Posted October 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 Thanks, yes i have a clymers, I just need to get some batteries for my ohm meter to test evrything. I have new plug caps and wires so i know its not that. I already cut all the crap out of the wire harness, just have a vito's kill switch. I hope its somthing simple i already fried a CDI last month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajogejr Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 If you fried another CDI...you need to check your grounds again!!! Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
375hp banshees Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 Well my bike has been working fine for the whole summer except a fried CDI (water), so I left for a ride today and not even 100 ft out of my driveway it just shut off. So i check my plugs for spark and they only spark somtimes. I have all the tors shit cut out and i have tested the whole harness for continuity and all the wires are good...Could this be my CDI again? I believe the cdi can be intermitent. my '87 did that ,every thing checked out so I started tapping on stuff the & when I tapped on the cdi it would spark I got tired of diagnosing it one day & beat the crap outa the cdi & it worked perfictly untill it got stolen :shrug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynodon Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 We had a similar problem------ turned out it was a cdi doing the same thing !! only working part of the time, funny thing is that one of them was a bad dyna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajogejr Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 Yeah...but, he just replaced the CDI... I guess for 125.00, get another one...or find one used. However, if it shorts again....I'd be looking over every wire on the bike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowprophet1 Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 On my '95, it ran fine until until one day. When it (the motor) warmed up, then ran on 1 cyl for a little bit then quit altogether. If you let it cool down 5-10 minutes, it would run fine again until it got totally warmed up. Although my stator seemed to check good on the ohm meter, I got a used one off ebay, and been running perfect ever since. Once the stator got heat soaked it was weak and wouldn't give the CDI box what it wanted and decided to say F.U.! If you have a local banshee buddy, put your CDI on his and see if it acts up. Good luck. Marc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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