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Sandmann - The bike dieing because of a weak coil, now there's something. You would think that it would just misfire. Does the brain box on the Triumphs have a fail safe program in it that if anything goes wrong, even small suff, that it kills the bike? That would get me killed driving in and out of Dallas the way I do.



That's what confused me & the mechanic too, with a bad coil I would have expected it to just run on one cylinder. We were looking for blocked breather lines, bad kill switches etc. I knew it had to be electrical due to the instant way it shuts down & restarts immediately - with a fuel or air problem the engine would sort of "fade out" and be hard to restart. The problem also got significantly worse when the bike heated up in stop-go traffic. The mechanic measured the output voltage of the coils (must have a big volt meter, mine only handles 500 volts!) and decided one coil was ok but the other was marginal. I was skeptical & thought he was grasping at straws buta year later and it hasn't stopped running since.

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