Making Dyna green coils fit in a GS

[exdirtbiker]

Here we go....
They don't fit. The output posts hit the mounting bracket.


So get your grinder warmed up and slice away... and make a plunge cut. DO NOT cut from ends, you have to start in middle !




Finish it with a Dremel.



Test fit, then shoot with a little paint to prevent rust. Right side, lugs pointing forward per instructions.

[exdirtbiker]

Do they have to point forward ? I want to install them pointing rearward, so I can use the stock primary wires off the old coils. The wires are not long enough to reach the front of the new coils, and I don't have any OEM type connectors to use on new wire.
( left side shown pointing rearward)

[kw86er]

Shouldt matter which way they point as long as the right wires are going to the right cylinders.

[dorkburger]

I cant see why it would matter. My stock coils were mistakenly installed backwards by me in the year 2001. I just discovered it 2 years ago....oops. all the wiring was correct so it didnt matter.

[kw86er]

Custom builders and Harley guys put them all over the place. I had to rewire my primary quick connector on my 2011 Sportster so I could move my Coils and not have the plug wires cross each other because they were exposed and I wanted to clean things up a bit...

[exdirtbiker]

Thanks guys.
I put them in rearwards, looks good. and just to be safe, I checked the resistance of my old resistor caps before I put them on the new wires.
And one is shot.
3 are 10K ohms, one is 22M ohms.
I'll lose another week waiting for parts

[dorkburger]

That stinks. I had a dead cap also...thats when I discovered my backwards coils.

[rustybronco]

I'll lose another week waiting for parts

Try this...

http://imageshack.us/f/34/5kresistorreplacement.jpg/

[exdirtbiker]

Thanks Rusty !
But the problem is the spring, when I took it apart, I wanted to see how.. umm.. "springy" it was.
It wasn't.
It snapped at 10 deg of bend.

[exdirtbiker]

Any thoughts on a replacement spring while I wait for the new caps?

[sharpy]

mm now i know why i didnt buy Dyna coils. Look ugly and hard to fit, Accel are a breeze but good job anyway

[jwhelan65]

A few spacers and longer bolts from Home Depot and your in business

[jwhelan65]

mm now i know why i didnt buy Dyna coils. Look ugly and hard to fit, Accel are a breeze but good job anyway

Dyna's ugly?? vs. pale yellow with fluorescent purple and pink trimmed logo? you don't see them anyway.. just sayin.

[gearhead13]

Any thoughts on a replacement spring while I wait for the new caps?

Nice Dyna coils with those? Get some decent NGK caps ffs.
Edit: I see that you are getting new caps ok. Get new wires while you are at it.

[dorkburger]

a heads up....

The Suzuki caps do not come with the rubber seals. I need to replace mine-they have dried and shrunk, likely the cause of the corrosion to begin with.....