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Am I doing this right?

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Having a little trouble getting my '79 GS1000E to run right. Discovered no.1 cyl wasn't firing. Now I've almost decided that the trouble is intermittent with all 4 cylinders. Spark seems really weak at the plugs, and seems to come and go. I've obviously got an electrical problem, but I wanted to rule out the Accel coils. Never done a coil test before. Both coils read about the same as the pics. I have 12+ volts at both orange/white wires with the ground anywhere, including bat. Plug wires are new, made from a MSD generic cut-to-fit set for a car. That may be my problem. Plugs are new. Installing new Dynatec ignition last week didn't change a thing. Timing was set with a light, adjusted both pick-ups on the Dynatec. I really gotta get some alligator clips for my multimeter!
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You got 3.6 ohms on primary and 11690 ohms on secondary (between plug connections)- what the resisitance of this car plug wire?
 
Meter is set at 20k. I've got 3 wires reading .6 approx, and 1 reading 3 approx. Also noticed the reading jumps around as I wiggle that wire. All the others stay rock steady. Guess I've got a bad plug wire. First hint of that was when I put the timing light on No. 1 wire and got no flash. Thought my timing light was bad. Moved it to No. 4 and it worked. Genius that I am, I marked the wires on the coil caps as I made them up, 1,2,3,4. When I removed them, I pulled all the coil caps without noting which wire they came from. So I don't know if my bad wire came from No.1. Boner move on my part. Will these wires work ok with the new NGK plug caps I bought? I'll just make up a new set, and check them before I install. These are not solid copper wires, box reads "8 mm, spirally wound for high EMI suppresion, 500 ohms per foot resistance". I had trouble finding wires and caps locally. Would have ordered a new set when I ordered the Dynatek from Z1, but I thought I was good.

Here's a link to the thread I started on the plug wires.
http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=179528
 
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