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I've always wondered what was under that tight-fitting cover...what secrets were hidden from view...
Okay, as I approach the third year of non-op for my XS, I am finally ripping away the cover and peeking inside.
Back in the beginning, as I searched for reasons for a debilitating lack of spark, I looked at the scabby solder job I did on the pick-up coils as a possible problem. Two of the wires that attach to the pick-ups are blue/gray, and I asked if it made a difference which one went where. The best answer I got was "Of COURSE it does!", but since they are the same color, I wasn't sure, and no one had a way to tell which was which.
I bought a replacement pick-up coil set, as mine had powdered right up to the pick-up and left little to solder. The new-to-me set also had powdered wires, so I did the wire fix, using my patented scabby soldering:
Realizing that I had neglected to splice on shrink-fit tubing, I taped with plastic tape.
I decided to see which wires went where and did what. I noticed that there are splices from the factory that link regular wire to the soft wire that attaches to the pick-ups.
-the front pink wire goes to the orange wire to the TCI
-the front blue grey wire goes to the dark blue wire that goes to the TCI
-the rear light gray wire goes to the gray wire to the TCI
-the rear blue gray goes to the black wire that goes to the TCI
-a sky blue wire goes from the TCI and under the engine, I think to ground
I am going to use the remaining soft wire to splice into the replacement pick-ups and the use a four-place junction to hook to my existing PU coil-to-TCI harness.
After that doesn't work, I'll try something else.
Okay, as I approach the third year of non-op for my XS, I am finally ripping away the cover and peeking inside.
Back in the beginning, as I searched for reasons for a debilitating lack of spark, I looked at the scabby solder job I did on the pick-up coils as a possible problem. Two of the wires that attach to the pick-ups are blue/gray, and I asked if it made a difference which one went where. The best answer I got was "Of COURSE it does!", but since they are the same color, I wasn't sure, and no one had a way to tell which was which.
I bought a replacement pick-up coil set, as mine had powdered right up to the pick-up and left little to solder. The new-to-me set also had powdered wires, so I did the wire fix, using my patented scabby soldering:
Realizing that I had neglected to splice on shrink-fit tubing, I taped with plastic tape.
I decided to see which wires went where and did what. I noticed that there are splices from the factory that link regular wire to the soft wire that attaches to the pick-ups.
-the front pink wire goes to the orange wire to the TCI
-the front blue grey wire goes to the dark blue wire that goes to the TCI
-the rear light gray wire goes to the gray wire to the TCI
-the rear blue gray goes to the black wire that goes to the TCI
-a sky blue wire goes from the TCI and under the engine, I think to ground
I am going to use the remaining soft wire to splice into the replacement pick-ups and the use a four-place junction to hook to my existing PU coil-to-TCI harness.
After that doesn't work, I'll try something else.
CZ
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