78 cyclone no tach or lights

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patriot
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78 cyclone no tach or lights

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i am having a new problem with this sled ,after timing the engine and reassembling i now do not have any lights or tach ,while timing it everything worked ,i checked the ohms and it reads 1.2...is this correct? also it is electric start with no battery,would that matter? i mean everything worked before ,or did the stator just quit....any help is appreciated it is the 440 kioritz
JDT
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Re: 78 cyclone no tach or lights

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Check the male/female terminals on the engine connector. Maybe one of the pins got pushed out of the molded plug on reassembly.
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harleysportster
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Re: 78 cyclone no tach or lights

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What he said, It has to be something simple but the lighting coil should be 0.2 ohms between the two green/yellow wires.
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patriot
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Re: 78 cyclone no tach or lights

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the reading is between two green wires in the top of the engine connector and with my multitester set on 200 in the ohm section ...harleysportster ,some time ago i was trying to time this engine and you said you never seen anything like i was describing , because my marks were way off ..well you were right you should never see it .first i had a mm dial indicator trying to use it for inches and second i had to learn to read one ,i was not setting it right ,but it is dead on now just has a new problem ..thanks for the help
patriot
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Re: 78 cyclone no tach or lights

Post by patriot »

problem solved .....it was the hi lo headlight switch ,must have ground out the whole system,thanks for the input
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