New spark plug wires

[Randy Yocum]

I bought new solid core plug wires for my GL 1000,the original wires developed cracks and worse, the inner rubber compound surrounding the copper center was coming apart, I couldn't keep the plug caps to stay on.I tested the coils themselves and they were right at 3 ohms resistance,perfect according to the good book .I opted to just put on new wires ,On these coils the wire is molded in to the housing,so I cut the wire off about 2 inches before it enters the coil,and soldered the new wire there,I layered several pieces of various sizes of shrink tubing to seal that joint .

 

[pidjones]

Good luck! That tubing will have to hold off up to 30,000 volts. I have heard of folks digging out the potting compound, putting on new wires, and re-insulating with good HV compound.

 

[Randy Yocum]

Good luck! That tubing will have to hold off up to 30,000 volts. I have heard of folks digging out the potting compound, putting on new wires, and re-insulating with good HV compound.

so far so good the bike running better then ever.I tried posting a video of it running, but the it said file is too large,so heres a still photo instead.

 

[pidjones]

so far so good the bike running better then ever.I tried posting a video of it running, but the it said file is too large,so heres a still photo instead.

Putting videos on Youtube and linking them is the best way that I've found. Glad your patch worked out. Keep an eye on it. HV does what it wants to do.

 

[dan filipi]

That bike looks beautiful! A definite keep'er stock.