Once again I must ask for the help of you goldwing gurus,
I made a post a while ago at the beginning of summer about my gl1000 which ran poorly. After replacing the points and readjusting the timing which was way off among other electrical crimes the bike ran pretty good to me a little cold blooded but once warm ran good. After about 1500miles of commuting to and from school whenever the weather allowed brings me to around a week ago. The bike sometimes sits outside due to a lack of space available but last week (or the week before) central ohio had a pretty bad storm I wasn't expecting so the bike sat outside in the rain and lighting, which stopped by around 12am-1am.
The next morning around 8am I went to start it to go to school and it would not run right at all i would turn it on and it would only hit on 2 cylinders run for 10-15 sec then die. After fighting it for 5min I left it alone and took the car. After school I came home to see if maybe it was just because it was still wet, no go it ran this time only when the throttle was held open still on only two cylinders so while it was running i pulled the left hand back cylinder spark plug cap and it dies. But when i go to pull the front left it makes no difference. I do the same for the right and the front cylinders didn't seem to fire. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to fix so it sat for a couple days.
after which i tore the shelter off to check the wiring at the coils and found that the plug for the right coil was a little loose and had some rust on it probably from sitting outside so I cleaned that up and kinda clamped it a little tighter with pliers but didn't replace the connector. While I was messing with it I had a brand new condenser that came in so I went it and replaced the old one and cleaned the points up which looked a little worse for wear for only 1500 of running. After doing this work I started the bike up and it came alive like it used to but i only ran it for a couple moments. so I put it back together and went for a ride.
It ran fine at idle but would seem to occasionally lose 1 or 2 cylinders and have no power at all. But then sometimes would run fine. But would "wake up" if given full throttle. The choke weirdly enough seems to affect how it runs when its freaking out which seems like carbs but I want to focus on ignition right now at least. While riding i pulled over and jiggled the junction where the condenser points and coil interconnect and had no change in idle. I also sprayed wd40 around the intakes and had no idle change. I did change the intake o rings around 1000 miles ago.
I tested my coils today and here are the numbers:
1 and 2
with caps: 24,800 ohms
w/o caps: 15,320 ohms
3 and 4
with caps: 26,300
w/o caps: 16,950
Spark Plug Caps (These caps were replaced with the points 1500 miles ago) With ngk caps recommended on randakks site
1: 5,010
2: 5,020
3: 4,830
4: 4,720
I looked at this post on randakks site Coil Testing + Coil Replacement Options | Randakk's Blog
But I don't know how to interpret these numbers I got from testing. I cant tell if its off enough to be a problem or really what is going on.
Thanks again.
I made a post a while ago at the beginning of summer about my gl1000 which ran poorly. After replacing the points and readjusting the timing which was way off among other electrical crimes the bike ran pretty good to me a little cold blooded but once warm ran good. After about 1500miles of commuting to and from school whenever the weather allowed brings me to around a week ago. The bike sometimes sits outside due to a lack of space available but last week (or the week before) central ohio had a pretty bad storm I wasn't expecting so the bike sat outside in the rain and lighting, which stopped by around 12am-1am.
The next morning around 8am I went to start it to go to school and it would not run right at all i would turn it on and it would only hit on 2 cylinders run for 10-15 sec then die. After fighting it for 5min I left it alone and took the car. After school I came home to see if maybe it was just because it was still wet, no go it ran this time only when the throttle was held open still on only two cylinders so while it was running i pulled the left hand back cylinder spark plug cap and it dies. But when i go to pull the front left it makes no difference. I do the same for the right and the front cylinders didn't seem to fire. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to fix so it sat for a couple days.
after which i tore the shelter off to check the wiring at the coils and found that the plug for the right coil was a little loose and had some rust on it probably from sitting outside so I cleaned that up and kinda clamped it a little tighter with pliers but didn't replace the connector. While I was messing with it I had a brand new condenser that came in so I went it and replaced the old one and cleaned the points up which looked a little worse for wear for only 1500 of running. After doing this work I started the bike up and it came alive like it used to but i only ran it for a couple moments. so I put it back together and went for a ride.
It ran fine at idle but would seem to occasionally lose 1 or 2 cylinders and have no power at all. But then sometimes would run fine. But would "wake up" if given full throttle. The choke weirdly enough seems to affect how it runs when its freaking out which seems like carbs but I want to focus on ignition right now at least. While riding i pulled over and jiggled the junction where the condenser points and coil interconnect and had no change in idle. I also sprayed wd40 around the intakes and had no idle change. I did change the intake o rings around 1000 miles ago.
I tested my coils today and here are the numbers:
1 and 2
with caps: 24,800 ohms
w/o caps: 15,320 ohms
3 and 4
with caps: 26,300
w/o caps: 16,950
Spark Plug Caps (These caps were replaced with the points 1500 miles ago) With ngk caps recommended on randakks site
1: 5,010
2: 5,020
3: 4,830
4: 4,720
I looked at this post on randakks site Coil Testing + Coil Replacement Options | Randakk's Blog
But I don't know how to interpret these numbers I got from testing. I cant tell if its off enough to be a problem or really what is going on.
Thanks again.