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Inconsistent ignition system

timebombprod

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Switched to the dyna S ignition, started the bike up and at first things were going pretty good, but first the bike was loping like it used to before I changed the coil plugs, and was on and off from a drone to that lope, the ignition was working fine with the spark test and everything was timed correctly.

Secondly when i went to about 4k, I had that hanging idle again, and when it dropped back down, the bike went under the normal idle and wanted to die out.

What should i look at? Killswitch is cleaned, connections from signal genrator to coilpacks are clean, the coilpacks have came back with reading that are in spec and not near going out, what the heck do I do now?

All I can think of is checking the timing advance but it's been checked before and the advance was advancing and retarding fine, I'm gonna get new wire for the connection of the signal genrator to the coilpacks but this is really stumping me.
 
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I just checked my spark to make sure the ignition system didnt fry from whatever happened and both coils do run spark consistently and at the right time. Idk wtf is going on.
 
My memory is poor, but didn?t you dig out /replace the spark plug leads on ignition coils?
 
I'm still having a short in the battery box area, and my bike did go from all 4 cylinders back to being a twin, what in the battery box area can cause that?

It's the negative sides of coils that drop, never a full coil
 
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“Yes, the leads are fine and the coilpacks did clear the resistance test well within specs.”

I’m sure they do...but what about when ignition modules are firing them by repeatedly making/breaking their ground contact? Any weakness in the plug wire repair could cause random misfiring.

“It's the negative sides of coils that drop, never a full coil”

unclear what you mean here
 
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“It's the negative sides of coils that drop, never a full coil”

unclear what you mean here


The negative sides of the coilpacks, cylinder 3 and 4.

I just changed out a good bit of connections for new fresh ones and most likely am gonna do new wires for the ignition to the coilpacks.
 
Yes, the leads are fine and the coilpacks did clear the resistance test well within specs.

With or without the sparkplug caps?
What I am asking is if you have checked the sparkpug caps.
(Or maybe your aftermarlkedt ignition system doesnt have the resisitor type caps.)
 
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