Re: Please help a fresh back solider get his bike to run.

Posted by drewj on May 10, 2011; 12:14am
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/Please-help-a-fresh-back-solider-get-his-bike-to-run-tp2910515p2921133.html

Fixed!!!

TOOLS1, first i'd like to thank you so much for going out of your way and taking those pictures of your bike for me.

Got home and decided i'm dumb for not checking for 12v from the coil mounts to the - so did that and didn't get anything, started scratching my head since i was sure they were grounding out some how. put everything back together and it fired up, so i'm like sweet, throw the tank on to go for a ride. put tank on and go to turn it on and it pops the fuse again?! so i tank it off.  starts and runs fine. start jiggling wires and fuse pops. ok, figured out, its a short. buddy and his wife are over and we were coming the backbone over with a fine tooth comb looking for a short, i put a fuse in and start jiggling the wires, buddy's wife starts asking why the key is smoking. BINGO. Turns out when i put the coils on or anywhere in it was pulling just enough on the wires up buy the ignition switch to short, but when i put the coils back in i thought it was fixed and ran all the wires really nice so the tank would clear them (and there was just enough slack for it not to short). so when i put the tank back on it stretched it out and and shorted.  pulled the loom off the back of the ignition switch and the brown wire was not only loose but had started welding itself into the red wire.

thank you so much for your guys time and effort.

Moral of the story, relax and dont get as frustrated as i was. I was going to run it over with the powerstroke or actually pay someone (haven't done that since i was 16, now 25) to fix it for me.