Hey guys. I'm having some issues with a blaster I just bought for my fiancee and was hoping you could give me some insight on what you think it may be.
I bought the ATV from a guy who said he had no spark. The story was that he rode it all last summer without any problems, then took it out of the garage in April to tune it up and it had a weak/no spark. I bought the bike and did a tear down of all the electrical units. It didn't have a headlamp, tail lamp, dimmer switch, main switch, or engine stop switch. I tested all the existing units with an ohm meter and suspected the cdi unit and charge coil to be dead. I ordered from a bulk auction all the electrical units for a 94 blaster which came will all the formentioned switches above and a control unit. Since it supposedly ran before I decided to just swap out the parts that I knew I needed. After swapping out the lighting and charge coils and cdi unit, I kicked it over and it started first try.
This was about 3 weeks ago. I took it out and rode it on 3 occasions for no more than 15 minutes just to test it out before I felt comfortable letting her use it. This past weekend we took the ATV to the cabin and rode it. We took it pretty easy but tested it on some hills and pushed it on some straights and everything was great. When driving on a straight after accelerating slowly and shifting from second to third gear, after about 3 seconds the ATV completely quit out on me. At this point, we had been on it for about 2 hours and checked the obvious things. The gas tank was still practically full and assumed it was the clutch since we had some small problems earlier in the day but soon ruled that out when we started pushing the ATV back and reached a hill. My girl mounted the ATV, started riding down the hill and as she picked up speed, let go of the clutch in first and the bike sounded like it started, but when you gave it gas nothing happened. After an hour and a half walk back to the cabin (uphill), I did another tear down and quickly found out that it had no spark AGAIN.
With the lack of tools, I was limited with what I could check so I'll have to head down next weekend armed with all my electrical units, service manual, and your ideas so we can get this thing going again.
Thanks in advance for your input.
I bought the ATV from a guy who said he had no spark. The story was that he rode it all last summer without any problems, then took it out of the garage in April to tune it up and it had a weak/no spark. I bought the bike and did a tear down of all the electrical units. It didn't have a headlamp, tail lamp, dimmer switch, main switch, or engine stop switch. I tested all the existing units with an ohm meter and suspected the cdi unit and charge coil to be dead. I ordered from a bulk auction all the electrical units for a 94 blaster which came will all the formentioned switches above and a control unit. Since it supposedly ran before I decided to just swap out the parts that I knew I needed. After swapping out the lighting and charge coils and cdi unit, I kicked it over and it started first try.
This was about 3 weeks ago. I took it out and rode it on 3 occasions for no more than 15 minutes just to test it out before I felt comfortable letting her use it. This past weekend we took the ATV to the cabin and rode it. We took it pretty easy but tested it on some hills and pushed it on some straights and everything was great. When driving on a straight after accelerating slowly and shifting from second to third gear, after about 3 seconds the ATV completely quit out on me. At this point, we had been on it for about 2 hours and checked the obvious things. The gas tank was still practically full and assumed it was the clutch since we had some small problems earlier in the day but soon ruled that out when we started pushing the ATV back and reached a hill. My girl mounted the ATV, started riding down the hill and as she picked up speed, let go of the clutch in first and the bike sounded like it started, but when you gave it gas nothing happened. After an hour and a half walk back to the cabin (uphill), I did another tear down and quickly found out that it had no spark AGAIN.
With the lack of tools, I was limited with what I could check so I'll have to head down next weekend armed with all my electrical units, service manual, and your ideas so we can get this thing going again.
Thanks in advance for your input.
