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Hi,

My '04 is doing the same thing, used to be a brief cut out and backfire, now is a cut out. I'm thinking I have a bad coil as well but saw many posts about the pick up coil gap.

I could not find anything on the pick up coil's location to check it, and I'm sorry to say I do not know where it is. Any help would be much appreciated. I'd prefer not to just hang a new part with our some due dilgence.

Thanks!



The pickup coil is under the stator (alternator) cover on the right hand side of the engine. You'll see a wire harness coming out from there. So what you need to do is pull the cover (make sure you have a replacement gasket ready) to check and/or adjust the gap on the coil. Do this while the bike leans on the kickstand and you'll loose next to no oil during the process.

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