Lights "kill" engine???

filestyle1 said:
I had changed the type of plug, the magneto, the bulb and still no luck until I changed the wire! good luck nomad ,hope you catch the gremlin:ride:
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Hmmmm thanks, sometimes it is the simple things we overlook or take for granted are at the core of the problem..
 
HT2005, thanks for the input. I changed the plug back to the original, and I swear it runs better but the lights still kill the eng... Interestingly I did recently regap my plug I will change the gap.. are you sure about that 0.02? that's a mighty small gap...
 
Ok I was wrong, I checked and my gap is somewhere between 0.010 and 0.020.... somewhere around fifteen-thousandths of an inch.
 
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best I can tell the voltage is ac and is goes all over the place but the so called instructions with the engine kits say its 6 volt. The bulbs off the generator lights for bikes will work for a little while and will fry must be a voltage spike that gets them.
I had a problem with one of my bikes the plug looked good and bike would run fine then it would take a fit and die light worked right up to the point of the bike coming to a stop. You could not get it started again until turning off the light once running again if you tried the light it was dead in the water again so I cleaned the plug and it would work with the light on and may last a day or two then it would pull the same old $hit the plug looked fine but it had to have a internal short in it so its now sleeping in the city dump somewhere. A new plug made it all better. all it takes is a frog hair of bare wire and it will short out the system or a loose soldered connection on the ignition system and the dam light will stay on as you grind to a stop unless you kill the lights then its real unhappy motoring to get home if its after dark.
Norman
 
Thanks for all the input Gentlemen, as soon as I feel like getting my hands dirty again, I'll use it all. Got really frustrated changing an eng on my bike, (different eng; chain don't fit right... etc,, I need a rest from it.. ).. Ride my mountain bike tomorrow... clear the head.. :)
 
I hear ya sometimes these things can drive you crazy or sane depending on which end your starting fromrotfl
Norman
 
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