Daisy has lost her spark!

[gijoe1313]

Righto, poor ol'Daisy has been laid up for a couple of weeks now!

The problem : not starting on kick.

We have : Fuel, compression, but apparantly no spark.

We have replaced : Coil pack, spark plugs and leads, have also reconditioned battery providing full volts.

Still no spark!

Any two-stroker smoker demi-gods (Ixion? Others of such fame and knowledge?) able to take Daisy out of her doldrums!

[xwhatsit]

Hey man,

`Apparently' no spark? So you've done the old plug-out-on-cylinder-head-look-for-blue-stuff trick?

Also, it's a two-stroke. Replace the plugs. Doesn't matter how good they look, just do it. If it's been sitting up for a while, and then didn't fire the first few times, you might've fouled the plugs by pumping more and more gas into the cylinder.

Get new plugs, do the plug-on-cylinder-head bit.

Tried bump starting it?

[xwhatsit]

P.S. I'm happy to drop by after work tonight with a multimeter and we can work through the workshop manual if you like?

[007XX]

Oh no! Poor little Daisy...I bet it's all your fault Gijoe, what did you do to her?

[skelstar]

Shit man, chicks like to have someone that just listens. Don't try and fix her problems, and I know most guys like to...she just needs some who'll listen. Take her out for dinner, a nice movie...maybe watch the sun set with a bottle of wine. She'll get her spark back in no tiiiiimmmmeeee....hhaaanngg ooon.... Daisy is a bike?!?!

[gijoe1313]

We have replaced : Coil pack, spark plugs and leads, have also reconditioned battery providing full volts.

So... Xerxes, you expected us to RTFM when you missed this part of our post? heehee!

Yes, we did the easy things first! Just didn't do the last thing first that would have got it running!

[deanohit]

Oh no poor Daisy. Hopefully she'll get a bit of spark back in her life soon.

[xwhatsit]

Bah, you edited your post. I swear it said `spark plug leads' ^_^

I'll bring a big stick and a hammer. That'll spark her into life

If not, we'll follow Monty Python's advice and hire that subdivision of Confuse-A-Cat Ltd; Scare-A-Stroker Pty.

[gijoe1313]

Bah, you edited your post. I swear it said `spark plug leads' ^_^

I'll bring a big stick and a hammer. That'll spark her into life

If not, we'll follow Monty Python's advice and hire that subdivision of Confuse-A-Cat Ltd; Scare-A-Stroker Pty.

I've already spoken to Donor about Mr Blocky and Mr Mallet staying away from Daisy unless it is the last possible option!

[gijoe1313]

Have just tried the crash-start, we have compression, but no sparking ... magneto to be investigated next!

[Mr Merde]

So you are running contact point ignition not cdi

Check your points and gap.

Check your timing marks.

Feeler guage time

[Chickadee]

Is she all choked up?

Just wondering if she's all clogged, being a 2-smoker they're prone to clogging unless you're ringing the bejimminycrickets out of them.

Good luck with bringing Daisy back to life!

[Ixion]

Before all else. have you checked, rechecked and checked again ALL of the possible blasted "safety" switches. The sidestand, gear lever, clutch lever, any other of the pernicious things that may be fitted. Now, check them again. We hates the things we does.

I thought the RZ was CDI?

If it's CDI try changing the CDI unit. If its dud not a lot can be done except a swapsy. CDI needs : intact pulsar coil and wire to CDI unit. Good CDI unit . Good coils leads plugs.

And then investigate the wire from the pulsar coil, they have a habit of chafing through.

If its points like the RD , then life is simpler. Check ponts gap, check the little cam is going round, check the points/plate has not come loose, manually open the poiunts and check for a spark. Points ignition CANNOT fail to work if it has voltage, a good coil and points that open.

Are you sure the kill switch is in the right place ?

Do you have a wiring diagram?

Also sometimes those blasted infernal horrible hated safety switches are interconnected with diodes. If the diode goes (either short or open) you get no sparky. We hates them with a mortal hatred.

It's not really a two stroke issue as such. Ignition is the same , two stroke or four stroke. Only the legendary one stroke was different.

EDIT: Did you perhaps disturb some wires when fiddling about with the leaky petrol tank ?

[Donor]

Ssshhh... don't tell that larrikin idleidolidyll, but we're planning on swooping tonight and picking his apparently knowledgeable grey matter...

Remember, mums the word! (Or beer, I think beer is better...)

[smudge]

The RZ is a pretty simple bike, no funny safety switches or nothing. What happened when it stopped? Or did it just not start - I didn't really read all your post hehehe.

Check the kill switch first, not telling you how to suck eggs but..

I'm a sparky and I have owned an RZ from new, but would have to spend time with a multi meter to find the fault. I do have mine aprt restoring it at the mo so if you need something to check it out I may be able to assist. with the tank off it is pretty easy to follow the wiring loom, just make sure everything is plugged in before you rip into it too far.