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How many of you guys have bought yourself one of these to replace the stock unit as a pre-emptive decision based on past performance stats ie. leaving you broke down or some such AND / OR, the procom cdi also offers other features?

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Just interested in your thoughts on this one?

Cheers
staffo



I don't have a direct answer, but I do know many folks here stockpile parts due to limited availability of Triumph parts in general. To those of us with short riding seasons, a week or four can fairly ruin a Summer. I lost two months of riding last Summer - 4 weeks of that were due to incorrect parts shipments & parts availability issues. With a 6 & 1/2 months riding between road salt deployments, 2 months was a very very long time. I can usually squeak in 10 or 12,000 miles in 6 months. Last season I did 4 or 5,000.


To make a long story longer, if I had an extra $200 I'd buy an extra igniter. Money is a little tight right now though. My health insurance costs me $17,000 (not a typo - seventeen thousand) per year for two people, if you count in the $5,000 HSA deductible. That's around 4 months of wage for me.

(I'd want to believe the guy who came up with the HSA
concept is the same guy who invented spring loaded bathroom
sink faucets and blow driers instead of paper towels to dry
your hands. May his days in He|| be especially 'warm.')



I hear ya brother. My procom CDI was ordered as a possible replacement. At the time I placed the order, Vera Lynn had a quirk (for years that got worse) that might have been an ignitor. Said quirk was just like a dirty idle circuit. I could ride anywheres from 1/8 throttle to ballstothewall with no hiccups. Then when starting off idle at say 1/8 throttle it may or may not hiccup. Jeez. Don’t lectrics get worse as the heat increases? Or as greater demands are placed on them? After pulling and cleaning the carbys twice Vera got a rip van winkle snooze. Fast forward about 20K miles and 7 months later on Cinnamon Girl. I finally got round to swapping Vera's CDI out with Cinnamon Girls. Ya got to hate it when ya never get winter shuttered eh? Never any time to wrench, only time to ride. The oem cdi swap out was a no fix me deal. Turn out it was a coil. A freaking coil! The last thing I checked. What was left? Given 78,500 miles on the Dame it is possible for the carbys to be flat wore out. While desirous of the hoppy beverages in the fridge, I proceeded to rejet some used carbys I bought from Second Wind Triumph. Looking to diagnosis worn out carbs. If the lectric swaps didn’t pan out. Weren’t we talking about inventory? Well an ignition coil in my inventory, one I bought waaaaaaay back on March 14, 2005 FINALLY came in handy. So immediately that relegated the procom CDI to Spare. Since the coil swap out Vera Lynn has rolled a couple hundred miles. Heading up to Daytona and the Land of Meyers, oops, not a bloody tool on me! Vera Lynn I know what has become of you. I got ya right tween me legs… I digress.

Now the procom CDI really is a spare. However grassloppers, I want to install the tinman heart and run it, and save the oem cdi in all its backing plate attached glory: Read immediate replacement when/if needed. And to make the procom cdi primary with no issues of backing plates, I placed this order today...

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Item Name Quantity Total Price
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RIVET BARBED,12.7 - 20.6MM 4 $2.55
BRACKET,IGNITER 1 $8.24
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Subtotal: $10.79
Shipping & Handling: $5.95
Tax: -
Total: $16.74



yep, I'll be able to swap out a CDI in 10 minutes. 3 minutes if Greg don't watch me.

Why 4 barbed rivets and not two? Well that gets back to the question at hand...

...Inventory.

Mine.

Speaking of I could kick my self in your rear end. I should have ordered some thruxton and tbs needles for said inventory.

P.S.: The black ones are faster. Even if they lack a certain dialect.

Blowing gravel off rural roads