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No Spark

Post by george123 » Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:11 pm

Help anyone!

Recently bought a little sj, came to start up and there was no spark coming from the coil. it has no key barrel either so was wondering the the person had tried to hotwire it to get it started thev got the wires mixed up? does the key barrel have anthing to do with sending a current to the coil telling it to spark on start up? any help much appriciated!

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Re: No Spark

Post by Ladaman » Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:21 pm

As far as I am aware the barrel is just a set of switch contacts, so it does make the starter circuits.

How are you managing to turn the engine over now?
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Re: No Spark

Post by Jordi » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:16 pm

How's the dizzy cap and rotor arm?
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Re: No Spark

Post by george123 » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:21 pm

The dizzy is fine and were just turning it over by bridging two wires together and touch another wore to another it's just turning the engine over can smell fuel

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Re: No Spark

Post by Jordi » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:25 pm

You're sure it's no spark? Coil may be goosed. How old are the plugs? For the sake of a couple of quid may be worth fitting new.

Have you pulled the fuel pipe off to make sure it is pumping through?
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Re: No Spark

Post by george123 » Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:55 pm

Yes I pulled the fuel pipe of it's pumping beautifully just dosnt want to spark pulled King lead of the dizzy and held it to a earth point and there is no spark from the lead?

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Re: No Spark

Post by Jordi » Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:19 pm

You need to take the actual spark plug out. The leads won't spark.

Take a plug.out and.get some one to turn it over while you hold the spark plug next to the exhaust manifold.
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Re: No Spark

Post by Ladaman » Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:44 pm

When I bought my Sammi the ignition barrel had been broken out of it.

I'm sure I connected two wires together to turn it over, and I had to make one of the others live to make the ignition circuit. I can't for the life of me remember the details, but I'm surprised one of the electrickery experts haven't come up with the simple error you are doing.
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Re: No Spark

Post by Darrell » Thu Dec 26, 2013 5:49 pm

If it's a 413/sammy
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