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  1. Well I think it was a combination of two items. The cdi and spark plug.

    I replaced the cdi and it picked up the amount of times it would spark on the new plug, grounded to the block. But still wouldn't run with the current plug in the block. I replaced plug and now seems to run great. I tried the old plug grounded to the block again but still would not spark.

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  2. Hello all, I just picked up an 83 big red. And I'm having a spark issue. I can only get it to spark intermently. I can go out and push the start button till the battery dies and not get one spark. Then go back to it after the battery is charged and it will fire the second I press the button. When it does start and run, sometimes it will run for 30 seconds sometimes it will run for an hour or more.  My question is what is moet lilly the problem? And how do I test to verify?  Thanks,

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  3. Good morning all, so have a update and another problem.

     

    I was able to find a reverse switch! And it actually works.

    But

    The switch only has a small oring that is supposed to seal the hole in the sub-trans. But the hole in the sub-trans is to big and is threaded not smooth for an oring. So question is, is it the correct switch or do I have a different model year sub-trans cover?

     

    Any thoughts?


  4. 2 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

    catphe10 , wht you looking for

     

    My buddy Micheal has a 125 he as been trying to sell me for $200 , no plastics at all , but the rest of the bike is there , the Flea Market is in LaCombe , Louisiana and from what I have been told is the oldest continuously open flea market in the USA , my buddy Andy owns it , and Guiness wants like $800 to verify it , he is tight wad , but a very cool ex-sailor ,  him and his wife are career Military retired with twin daughter who both just enlisted on their birthday at 18  --- I am pretty sure Micheal  ain't going to sell any parts off it , but would bet it could be had for less than $200 , shipping would be insane ---- how far you away for a road trip 

    Fishfiles;

     

    Any chance you or your buddy would be willing to see what the cost of shipping would be?

     

    I checked honda restoration but according to their website they don't have what I need.

    I have a call in to the salvage year near me but they didn't sound very hopeful.

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  5. So I had some time to tear into the wiring this afternoon. When I opened the headlight some obviously was trying to rig stuff to work, there were no cut wires thankfully but half the wires were not connected to anything. So after spending some time figuring out the wires I got it all back together. I have to do some cleaning in the on off headlight switch but once that started working then everything except one thing works as it should.

     

    When I connected the neutral and reverse wires at the transmission I again didn't have any spark. So I followed the neutral wire and it goes into the transmission, but when I followed the reverse wire it is grounded to the frame? And not another switch like it shows on the diagram. Is there a reverse switch that wire should go to?? If so where about is it located?

     

    Thanks.

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  6. _wilson_; What part(s) do you want pictures of? just the wiring? I have not pulled the headlight assembly apart yet so i don't know whats been done in there yet.

    I have not found and type of wire issues yet, human or mice. again I'm not very deep into the wiring yet, the only place I've looked is the connections with the Neutral switch bundle above the Reverse lever.


  7. So with the reverse light acting like the neutral doesn't that mean the two wires by the reverse lever are wrong? shouldn't they be switched, so the neutral light works as it should?

    Which would lead me back to no spark, but a step further towards finding the real wiring problem?

     

    I forgot to mention that i also noticed that the Head light is also always on. I flipped each switch high/low and on/off but the light stays on.

    I'm thinking that there might be a couple wires crossed in the bundle inside the headlight. Thoughts?


  8. Jeepwm69; I do have a copy of the manual. Only reason I thought the CDI is I know that there are a hand full of things it controls. Plus like I stated I really dont want to have to tear into the side of the engine if i dont have to.

     

    retro; I have not found any splices or modifications to the wire harness (yet), as far as i can tell The CDI is original. I have already tried the swap on the two wires, when i did this i had no spark at all. No spark in Neutral or any gear. I swapped back and then was back to only no spark in neutral. I can't answer the light question, i did not pay any attention to what the lights where doing / not doing. I will look at it after work.


  9. Hello All, I picked up an 1986 TRX125 a couple months ago and I'm finally getting around to fix it up. When I bought it the guy said it could not be in neutral to start, and that it had bad compression. I have already fixed the low compression, but I'm trying to figure out why i cant get spark in neutral. It has spark when in any gear including reverse. When its running it will have spark in neutral but no spark in neutral if its not running. My first thought was the neutral safety switch, but after looking through the manual and seeing how deep id have to tear into the machine to replace I'm hoping for something easier. I'm wondering if it could be the CDI? Or something Else? Anyone have this issue? or other thoughts?
    Thanks,

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