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  1. DesertRatliff

    Complete, rebuilt, working 79 GS850 VM36 Carbs and other stuff

    I've had some '79 GS850 parts for sale locally but am not having any luck moving them so will try here, namely a nice, complete, recently rebuilt and working set of VM26 carbs off of that bike. All new seals, o-rings, cover gaskets and stainless Allen floatbowl and slide cover hardware and brass...
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    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    I hope some of the "learning" I did on machines in my youth won't ever be discovered by the living! I've got a few of those stories myself and really hope this bike won't be cataloged with them!
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    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    I started all of this with a nearly empty can. Thanks for your concern and advice, though. I'll go easy on the stuff.
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    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    With your advice, I'm 25% of the way there!! Thank you, Salty!! As you suggested, I temporarily wired the (+) power lead to the Dyna directly from the battery and the bike started, although it appears to be running only on cylinder 4 right now. But it's a big start!! Especially considering I ran...
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    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Thanks for your responses, Gorminrider. I do have confirmed spark on all 4 cylinders per your description. Also to note, for anyone who cares, when I go to start the bike, I've connected the coils directly to the battery with a fused lead to take the switching/relay/wiring harness variable out...
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    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Only change with the pickup rotor swapped 180 degrees is a slight pop out of a carb instead of a backfire out of 3/4 exhaust. I'm slowly losing steam. Glad my 1980 GS850 is running well as I've been enjoying that.
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    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Thanks for posting. I've swapped signal leads to no avail but I'll try swapping the rotor orientation around. I thought I did it by the book but something about the firing order just can't be right
  8. DesertRatliff

    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Carbs are pulled. I'll be going through them again. So that it's all fresh in my mind and since I have a working Dyna S ignition now, I'm going through everything again. With carbs pulled, I figured I'd spray starting fluid directly into the intakes. Bike doesn't start but I'm getting a...
  9. DesertRatliff

    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Thanks. I'll try that. I remember adding the relay circuit in such a fashion that I could remove it and go back to stock if necessary without any re-re-wiring. I'll give that a shot. I remember trying a few different relays last Fall to make sure that wasn't it, but don't think I reverted to...
  10. DesertRatliff

    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Thanks for the response. I just went out and checked the wiring. The coils have two leads on each coil. There is an orange/white wire and a black wire on one and an orange/white and white wire on the other. Orange/white on both coils goes to 12v(+) from the relayed circuit to the (+) battery...
  11. DesertRatliff

    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Whelp, looks like all of my sparkplugs are non-resistor type (on the '79, the '80 and 2 sets of spare in my box). Also, I trimmed down the spark plug wires on all the coils I had for fresh, non-corroded copper and reattached everything. What else could I be missing? Does not start on ether...
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    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    I am up for ALL kicks at this point!! Worth a try. I've got a whole mess of old spark plugs throughout the various shops on the farm here. How can I identify a non-resistor plug?
  13. DesertRatliff

    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Who doesn't hate these threads, right? Feel free to laugh at my expense and follow along. I feel it's something I've overlooked and the solution posted here may help someone someday. And for the record, the no-start situation happened overnight, with no molestations of any kind that I...
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    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Ooh. Good reminder. Forgot to mention, that in all of this, I did the direct-to-battery/relay mod. Just went out and checked voltage with the new battery. 12.5v to the coils before, then ~11v to the coils with the starter cranking.
  15. DesertRatliff

    Perplexing No Start Saga '79 GS850. Requesting your help!

    Hi all, I've got a 1979 GS850. Upon purchase, I rebuilt carbs, replaced o-rings, boots, fluids, adjusted valves, etc, etc, etc. I reckon a pretty thorough but standard going over. I set carbs to factory settings. It started up and, with the carbs set there, ran pretty good. I took it for a...
  16. DesertRatliff

    Any resources on 1979 to 1980+ ignition coil pickup swap AKA ditching points cheap

    Pretty sure the OEM box failed or was failing. Gonna take the advice and just buy a Dyna S.
  17. DesertRatliff

    Any resources on 1979 to 1980+ ignition coil pickup swap AKA ditching points cheap

    So just add the box, wire it all up and I should have spark and an updated solid state ignition. I'll keep y'all posted.
  18. DesertRatliff

    Any resources on 1979 to 1980+ ignition coil pickup swap AKA ditching points cheap

    And here's what the box looks like:
  19. DesertRatliff

    Any resources on 1979 to 1980+ ignition coil pickup swap AKA ditching points cheap

    Heres the 80's diagram with addition of the ignitor box
  20. DesertRatliff

    Any resources on 1979 to 1980+ ignition coil pickup swap AKA ditching points cheap

    Will update this thread for posterity in case another idiot wants to follow in my footsteps. Haha. It pays to look at a diagram. The big difference in the ignition systems between the 79 and 80+ is the ignitor box. Duh.
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