Think I broke the code...

[R-III-R Turbo]

[video=youtube_share;ZR8jB5aTj38]http://youtu.be/ZR8jB5aTj38[/video]

caught this little gremlin red handed yesterday.

bikes been running rough at low revs and stalling (sometimes dying, other times just a cough) at idle and low revs since last september, been thinking about the possible cause for some time, appeared to be ignition prob, and now i find the 3rd cylinder isnt getting ignition due to this little bogie i caught red handed yesterday

now lets see if i can repait it instead of giving triumph several million dollars for the part

 

[owl]

That lights up the darkness

 

[Bishop]

I just broke my desk drawer looking at those pics in your sig...

 

[Bc fisherman]

that was a good catch maybe we should all run our bikes with the Bear Claw off in the dark and see what sparks fly around

 

[budman]

true, what's the fix?

 

[Willtill]

that was a good catch maybe we should all run our bikes with the Bear Claw off in the dark and see what sparks fly around

Agree. Wouldn't hurt.

R-III-R Turbo; was it a cracked coil housing? Or was it the bracket itself? Hard to tell exactly where the arcing was coming from....

 

[budman]

plug wire?

 

[Blastedbones]

Ride the lightning!!:eek3:

 

[R-III-R Turbo]

Agree. Wouldn't hurt.

R-III-R Turbo; was it a cracked coil housing? Or was it the bracket itself? Hard to tell exactly where the arcing was coming from....

unfortunately the spark source moved around a bit, there doesnt appear to be a crack in the HT lead, so maybe the wire inside is broke and the current is just finding the shortest route to an earth. but it always seemed to jump from the plastic nut that tightens the HT lead into the coil housing.

now i took the coil off last night, and the upper side of that plastic nut is cracked. but the spark came from the lower side.
i done a continuity test on both leads off that coil, neither have continuity. now im wondering surely they should have? I'll take another coil off tonight and see if those leads have continuity

 

[Howard_inGA]

My bike had the same symptoms, but it was a bad MAP sensor. It took an underway data capture and factory analysis of the data to find it...