About 4 or 5 times in the last couple weeks, I'd start my bike and let it run a few minutes and the left cylinder would quit firing for about 15 seconds then fire back up and run fine for a couple days then do it again. Sunday we had a group of guys meet at my house to ride to a deer farm to check out all the monster deer we can't shoot. Well I fire her up and she runs about a minute then quits firing on the left cylinder and stayed that way. I switched all the coil wires and spark plug wires, fired her up again and still no fire on the left side. Not a bad coil. That means it's the igniter, d*****m, third one now. I have a used spare so I put it on and she fires right up and off we go.
Here’s another part of the story. For most of the summer when I start my bike the tach doesn’t work, after 3 to 10 miles it starts to work fine. I figered it was a lose connection so I checked the wires and plug and I would tap on it and hit a bump to see if it would start working. No luck with that. Well when I put on the spare igniter and started the bike the tach worked. Today I put in the bad igniter and the tach didn’t work, put the spare back in and the tach works. There is some connection between the two but I don’t know what it is. The question is, can the tach cause the igniter to fail or does the igniter failing cause the tach to act up? Does this give us another angle that may help figer this failing igniter thing out?
What say Gurus?
