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    Starting Trouble

    Good catch on the ‘80. I didn’t realize that the “T” used a lever. I learn something new every day on here. Thanks.
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    Starting Trouble

    I recall the GS Wisperer guy telling me that putting the pet-cock on prime won’t do anything unless you also apply some vacuum to the pet-cock. So if you put it on prime and crank the engine over a few revolutions that will send a few puffs of vacuum to the pet-cock to open the internal valve...
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    1982 Gs 1100 Igniter questions

    When the ignitor pulls the coil to ground to charge up the coil primary you would only see a few volts on the coil wire going to the ignitor. (The coil would consume most of the available voltage.) When the ignitor release the coil ground to discharge the coil you would see near battery voltage...
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    fuel use question

    Depends on what you mean by “amount of fuel I use”. Are you measuring the amount of fuel you use in miles per gallon, or in gallons per hour, or in gallons per 1000/rpm, or in ??? Generally speaking, the wider the throttle blades are open, the more fuel goes into the engine.
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    Random Photo thread

    Hydraulic brakes? LED backup lights? Surely not from Western PA.
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    1977 GS400 help with mystery of the right ignition points

    >>I don't know. What does that thin metal washer do?? Does it make contact with the electrical circuit?
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    1977 GS400 help with mystery of the right ignition points

    Or unplug the 2 orange/white wires from the wiring harness connector. BTW, I see this gs400 is a vertical twin, so, since it has dual points, I suspect it is what I call an odd fire engine. In other words, the piston do not go up and down together, but actually one piston is going up when the...
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    1977 GS400 help with mystery of the right ignition points

    Well, if the condenser is soldered to the coil, remove the orange/white wires from the coils so your meter can’t find a ground back out of the coil and then do as above to see if the meter finds ground through the condenser.
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    1977 GS400 help with mystery of the right ignition points

    I can only offer my SWAG (that’s my Silly Wild A@@ Guess) as to what might cause a set of points to always appear as open. Perhaps one of those condensers is internally shorted so as it doesn’t pass any (very much) current to its points and sucks the current to ground. That way the points never...
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    1977 GS400 help with mystery of the right ignition points

    Orange/white wire should not be going to a ground. Orange/white wire is the “hot” wire going to the coil to power up the coils. In the picture you attached those wires look like black wires to me that maybe have a metal clamp to hold them in position so they don’t end up someplace they shouldn’t...
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    1977 GS400 help with mystery of the right ignition points

    With the ignition turned on, (I assume all other connections to the coils and points are back to original), your meter is reading battery voltage *IF* both points are open, or it is reading voltage available (that would be battery voltage minus voltage drop) to the ignition coils if either point...
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    1977 GS400 help with mystery of the right ignition points

    I am having a problem following just where your probes are being connected and what type of test light you are using. And “everything worked as it should” doesn’t seem to tell me much. But if you disconnected the orange wires from their respective coils and connected a meter probe to each...
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    Pic of the week game

    So, I did find Eli’s bridge. Unfortunately, I don’t have my Suki on the road. And I’m not tech savvy enough to upload my picture.
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    Pic of the week game

    Thanks Eli. I’ll be on 354 later this week. I’m gonna check it out. Wish me luck.
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    Pic of the week game

    Eli, where is that covered bridge?
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    Gs850g

    I have had various threads do the same thing: turn light blue and hang around for a while and then disappear. Haven’t been able to notice any kind of a patten.
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    does bad starter relay = no lights/power when key is on? where am I going wrong?

    Ditto! And my GS750ET picked up over a volt at the coils after thus cleaning the ignition switch!
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    Pic of the week game

    Dorkburger’s, pic. (Me and my ‘68 Honda visited the West Rim (Colton Point) in 1969!)
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    Exhaust temps - fine tuning carbs

    The way I think of it, the colder plug gets colder by dissipating heat OUT of the plug faster, and into the head, thereby making the exhaust gases a smidgeon warmer.
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    Complete loss of electrical while driving

    One and done"............?
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