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1980 Gl 1100i. Maroon color. All stock. Starts, revs, charges, shifts, runs and brakes as it should. New rear tire, less than 1000 miles on the front tire. Nice thick brake pads, good rotors and fresh brake fluid. Belts at 25,000 miles (2017). Direct hot, through a relay, to the Dodge Neon coil...

The Dodge Neon coil came in. I fabbed a mounting bracket, wired it up, key on, mashed the button and she fired instantly! Took a short ride to warm her up then got on it hard. Pulled cleanly to redline in the first 4 gears, didn't take it all the way up in 5th, was going too fast. She ran...

LOL. I'll look in my box of grid squares for that flux capacitor. Anyway I got the Neon coil, just waiting on the pigtail. It'll be a couple of days. I'll post back when I got something. Again, thanks guys.

Understood Dave. Have a Dodge Neon coil on the way. will report back. By the way, I have a box of assorted coils, from this bike and others. Almost all of them show a primary resistance between 2.5 and 6 ohms. Yet I read that the primary resistance for our bikes should be .2 or .3 ohms. I don't...

Desertrefugee, that's what it has felt like since day 1, electrical. And Dan, the cooler pipe on #2 and the low compression on #3 was unexpected. I don't think flipping the coils will do anything. I just had them out, separated and the resistance was very close on both of them. And they're less...

I looked over the exhaust before I installed it. It's good. Well, just got in from the garage. Had full continuity from the wires through the caps. I replaced the cap resisters with a piece of thick copper wire and ran it with resister plugs. Still had the miss. I then put the resisters back...

CDI ignition. No points or condenser. 1980.

The saga continues......sheesh! The miss returned. I then put on a set of good stock exhaust. I bought the bike with a really nice looking, but way too loud, Mac exhaust. Still got a miss. Decided to bite the bullet and took the carbs to Pistol Pete. Together we went through them, checked...

Hello fellas, got an update on the high speed miss. I was thinking as a last resort I would either bring the carbs over to Pistol Pete (less than an hour drive from me) or get the Randaac (sp?) rebuild kit. That was as of summer of this year. In the mean time every tank got Seafoam or...

I run a few ozs of ATF in every tank. I just today burned a whole tank with 5 ozs of Seafoam. I run nothing but pure gas, no ethanol. The plugs are new, just checked the gap today. I removed the resistors from the plug caps. Replaced them with a piece of solid copper wire. Same size as the...

OK, popped off the valve covers. First re-checked the valve clearances, all good. I then pushed the rocker arms at all the valves. With a thick piece of hard rubber in the palm of my hand I could move them all. I couldn't tell if one was weaker than the others. They all felt the same. It did...

Thanks Dave. I will try to feel for a week valve spring by hand with the valve covers off. I understand what you are suggesting. I'm 99% sure the ignition spark is good. New coils, new wires, resister removed from plug cap and hot w/relay to the coils. I've been in the carbs. Correct float...

I know how to check clearances but are you suggesting I remove the heads, disassemble them and check the valve spring pressure? There are only 27,700 miles on the bike.

Well I tried the hot w/relay to the coils. Positioned it where the radio face was. Didn't solve the miss. This has got me stumped. I think I'll check the valve clearances then sync the carbs next. I'll get this sooner or later. Wish me luck.

As I said, I do plan to try that. A few posts back I asked for a "how to" to hook up the relay, thinking someone here might have done it, seeing it was suggested. But if you want to keep it a secret and not help a brother out, so be it. In my last post I was inquiring if a small voltage drop...