Coil: Connectors-Engine Falter By mflorek (Read 2,281 times)

[mflorek]

Forty cents fixed my scooter!
I had a problem. When riding at a constant speed, the engine would falter like I was running out of gas. It would accelerate OK if I gave it more throttle but cruising has issues. On occasions it would back-fire while slowing. I played with jets, float, settings and replaced the filter but still at cruising speed there was this dead zone. I replaced the plug with a new Iridium NGK and checked all connections. I stumbled upon the connections at the coil.


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The connection seemed sloppy. Pliers didn’t make it any snugger. I found these connectors in my stash - fit was SO much better.


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I cut off the factory connectors, stripped back the insulator and “tinned” the wire with solder. I had always heard that a "tinned" wire makes a better connection.

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Crimped on new connectors and connected the wires, making sure the green lead went on the green coil terminal. [Bummer - picture of me burning myself didn't come out]

WOW – fixed. Solid at all speeds and loads. No backfire either.

[Bashan]

Thanks for the great tip Mike. How many of us have coil connectors that look just like that? Rich

[Alleyoop]

I think we all do I am going to check mine tomorrow
Alleyoop

[♔Big Guy♔]

Sometimes it's not just the sloppy fit... the Chinese have a tendency to over-crimp their connectors and actually cut through the wire causing a bad/intermittent connection. The best example is the horn connectors. Probably because they are the least important, they tend to be crimped through a lot and the horn sounds like a sick duck.

For an extra $10 and 20 minutes on the PDI, it's always worth it to replace all of the crimp and gang connectors.


-Rich

[justbuggin]

the connectors at the battery was trashed on my bike when it gets warm enough here i going to do a fresh pdi on my bike and soldier all the connectors and seal them with heat srink tubing to make them weather tight