No Spark

quickrik · Post by **quickrik** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:54 pm

Hi Everybody

Just joined and hope somebody who is more logically minded then me can help me get my ZXR400 L1 back to life.

To cut a long story short the bike had a small electrical fire which toasted the main loom (and god knows what else)just under the seat after riding through a monsoon.

Current situation:
New loom aquired and fitted. Starter turns over but no sparks from ANY of the coil outputs.

Spares Availible:
Being my ex race bike I have many parts to swap out, coils, Ignitor box, Junction box, even a new ignition switch because the resistor in the old one got toasted.

I have swapped out all of the above, checked the side stand, kill switch and the static resistance of the pickup coil is in spec. and still no fugging spark :smt013

What I need is a fresh pair of eyes. A start from first principles to get a spark back into my bike. I hope you guys can help.

Thanks for listening

Rik

PS I'm based in Woking, Surrey

Post by **masterofinsanity** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:30 pm

mmm is the bike an import? don't you need to match the loom to the cdi?

quickrik · Post by **quickrik** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:22 am

Nope its ex-PB/ex-Kawasaki UK.

Tell me more about this matching up looms. All the plugs connected up fine and all the other electrics work, lights, horn etc.

Post by **masterofinsanity** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:45 am

just ahd a feeling that if you had an import cdi then a uk spec loom won't work properly? might be completely wrong, think sloweracing will probably answer my question?

quickrik · Post by **quickrik** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:58 am

Golly! So the question has to be how can I tell UK spec loom/CDI from an import.

Post by **masterofinsanity** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:53 pm

something to do with the numbers on the cdi. someone on here knows, do a search for cdi or similar.

quickrik · Post by **quickrik** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:51 am

Hmm, search didn't reveal much if anything.