Help

[Axel]

still at it

Well hours later and no go . I checked and cleaned connections and inspected vac lines and fuel lines. Is there a continuity test I can do to test the pickup coil circuit cuz it looks ok ( i'm sure that doesnt mean much ) . I tested resistor caps and across the coil (spark plug wires ) . Can the coils have a bad ground ?

[Axel]

Randy's TCI page

Wow ,thats a great site ,even a movie . There's a easy test to figure out where to go troubleshooting that even I cant screw up.
THANKS RAY

[Axel]

and on it goes

Can you believe I cant find 3/16 vac line in this one horse town ?
No fuel line other than the thick stuff either . Oh well , no one said it was going to be easy...

http://home.ptd.net/~theragos/xs11/tci%20faq's.htm

I will do the TCI test tomorrow, check fuses, test coils , try to test the pickups and every connection I can find

[mro]

Check at a shop that does work on mowers/chain saws etc..


mro

[Dragon Tamer]

Axel,
The pickup coils should test out a 600 to 800 ohms, the main coils should test out at 1 to 2 ohms on the primary side and about **15,000** ohms on the secondary. Sounds likely that you have a pickup coil out.
**corrected secondary value**

[skids]

Not including tha plug caps, I thought it should be more like 15,000 ohms (15K) on the high volt side.

Originally posted by Dragon Tamer
the main coils should test out at 1 to 2 ohms on the primary side and about 1500 ohms on the secondary.

[Axel]

No spark 2&3

I keep hearing this spark arc happening it the battery region . I thought it might be the TCI but after I removed the cover ,I think not . Fuses are good but I will clean the holders

[Axel]

TCI time

Tested at the TCI . Seems to point to pickups but they test equally at 125ohms TCI time ? or hammer time ?

[Axel]

anybody out there ?

Re-tested everything . Still no further ahead

[Axel]

act 3

It started to work for a second so I put it all back together and ...you guessed it : it stopped working .I'm now resoldering the TCI .

[Dragon Tamer]

Hey Skids,
Thanks for catching that, it was what I intended to say but my 'puter must be missing a zero on the keyboard or something!

[Axel]

no luck

No luck since I re-soldered the TCI . Whats left but to start again ?

[skids]

Re: no luck

If you can hear spark, it must be the coil wire or cap jumping to ground!

Originally posted by Axel
No luck since I re-soldered the TCI . Whats left but to start again ?

[Axel]

false alarm

Turned out be to a false alarm . It was a relay near the battery .

[Axel]

Still no spark on 2&3 .