Re: running on one cylinder

Vox Knox wrote:
> After reading the coil section of the "Official Factory Manual" and
> discovering that unlike my '78 Shovelhead, the current ignition coils have a
> common primary winding and independant dual secondary windings.
>
> One of the coil secondary windings was intermittently open which caused the
> problem. I replaced the coil and have had no problems since.
>
> It occurs to me that you might check this by reversing the plug wires at the
> coil. If your problem is that same as mine was, it should continue to run on
> one cylinder but it will be the "other" one. Capisce?

Ah-hah. You might've just solved a similar problem on my
daughter's XL1200C, or at the very least given me another way
of diagnosing it. Thank you!

By chance, would a problem like that be worse when the coil
gets wet? We got stuck in a real frog-swallower a while back
and she dropped a cylinder. Found a corroded plug wire that
looked nasty, even the plug was corroded. Replaced both plugs
& wires and it seemed fine.

But when she washed it a month later it dropped a cylinder
again. It came back, but I was wondering if it was something
in the coil, and getting wet was making an existing problem
show up.

My turn to get this round...

--
DeuceGurl
2001 FXSTDI
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." -Yogi Berra

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