A little history on the situation
The bike (2005 Speedmaster 865) was running rough on the right side last Fall. Winter came fast & furious, and so I ran out of riding weather. Salty roads and snow kept the bike in a remote unheated garag e, with the problem un-fixed.
Come Spring, I put fresh gas in her, and went back to right side rough running. In the process of trying to swap plug wires, I discovered one plug wire's copper connection was broken at the coil side. It was on the left / good side though. (Weird.) And so changing the wires side to side didn't happen due to the bad wire.
I pulled the carbs and discovered one diaphragm was slightly outside the track, which may have created a vacuum leak.
I fixed the diaphragm, installed new Magnecor plug wires, installed new plugs, checked the primary side of the coils at 6 ohms each, and now I get no spark on either side.
An inspection with a bright lamp reveals no apparent unconnected wires, (but who knows?)
I could use some advice of a serious nature on how to troubleshoot the problem
Thanks
The bike (2005 Speedmaster 865) was running rough on the right side last Fall. Winter came fast & furious, and so I ran out of riding weather. Salty roads and snow kept the bike in a remote unheated garag e, with the problem un-fixed.
Come Spring, I put fresh gas in her, and went back to right side rough running. In the process of trying to swap plug wires, I discovered one plug wire's copper connection was broken at the coil side. It was on the left / good side though. (Weird.) And so changing the wires side to side didn't happen due to the bad wire.
I pulled the carbs and discovered one diaphragm was slightly outside the track, which may have created a vacuum leak.
I fixed the diaphragm, installed new Magnecor plug wires, installed new plugs, checked the primary side of the coils at 6 ohms each, and now I get no spark on either side.
An inspection with a bright lamp reveals no apparent unconnected wires, (but who knows?)
I could use some advice of a serious nature on how to troubleshoot the problem
Thanks