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How to hook up stock coils

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akaerik21

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I went back to stock coils but I'm not sure how to hook them up. There is a positive and negative post coming out of them but I don't know where to hook up the wires coming off of the contact breaker and the wires coming off the starter button. I have the HAYNES manual but it's not showing anything about the coils.
 
Thanks for the links but I was still not able to find a diagram with the positive and negative marks on it.
 
In the words of member "bwringer":
"Although the GSR hive-mind is omniscient and nearly omnipotent, we are not yet clairvoyant."

One thing that would help answer your question would be if you would please give us a clue what bike you are working on.
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Sorry, yes its for a 78 gs 550E, I guess I just assumed this negative positive thing would be standard across the board, but I guess not.
 
Yes, it's somewhat standard, but earlier bikes, like yours, have points, bikes from '80 and up have electronic ignition, and the connections are different.

On your bike, the orange/white wires will go to the coil + terminal (on both coils), the white wire will go to the coil (probably the left one) that fires 1&4, the black wire will go to the coil (probably the right one) that fires 2&3.

And, ... there should not be any wires going to the coil that are connected to the starter button.
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