MOPED ARMY

Here are some additional photos

For the wiring harness photo:

There are 3 wires coming out of the stator. One is the spark plug wire, one is the yellow wire (light power) and the last is a black wire (connected to one of my Killswitch wires. Here is how I have them arranged:

- Black from stator connects to blue/green (kill switch wire #1)

- yellow from stator connects to gray and blue/green (taillights) and black (headlight power)

I have ground my headlight wire on the top of my forks, grounded my Killswitch (the purple wire in pic) to the case, and my taillight has a ground in it. Does anything about this seem incorrect?

Is your point gap right?

That's your issue. Get that fixed and work on getting it jetted right. If your points aren't gapped correctly it's going to run like ass.

Got it to stop backfiring out the carb by resetting my points gap. Timing is set to 17* btdc,

He already said he corrected the backfiring in his first post. why are some of you dwelling on this. Read what he posted

130 seem huge for a 20m step that shit down

Here's a video of it running: https://www.reddit.com/r/moped/comments/he2y9m/puch_runs_like_shit_help/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

sounds like a bad condenser, won't let it rev up. try adding one inline externally to test. Theres a black wire coming off your condenser, is it melted to your lighting coil? hard to tell by the pict.

Get an old Bosch condenser from AutoZone, the kind with a mounting/grounding strap. Circa 1960s vw beetle.Mount it to frame ground, connect wire to the wire going into the ht coil . It can go anywhere. Cut the wire and solder, connect it to the spade connecter going into the ht coil. Doesn't matter, as long as it's on the ignition coil wire that comes outta the stator and connects to the ht coil.

Thanks for that! Going to try that today. Just to confirm, is the ht coil where the spark plug wire comes from? Or could you tell me where the ht coil is in my pics?

I'll need to order new points, but this set is new. The reason I think it is condenser over the points is because the bike ran perfectly before getting too hot and shutting off. All I've done to fix that was.try and solder a new condenser. Points are the same, but now with a new condenser it runs like shit. But I can try and find some Bosch points and give it a go

Those ignitions fry every time you use them, to much head under the flywheel. Especially if you have the cover on the flywheel too

Post on Buy/Sell for a 6 wire Puch stator and do away with all your problems.

That cheap replacement ignition set is to blame for 90% of your problems.

They are cheap, and poorly made. They get bad float/failure, and overheat very easily.

Update for anyone who might have this problem: I had used locktite on my points screw to prevent the points from walking, which ended up preventing the points from behind able to move horizontally back and forth, causing my points gap to be open way too long. I had set them with a feel gauge as previously mentioned, but the issue was the points gap staying open too long. I also added an internal condenser at the same time so maybe that was it, but I'm pretty certain it was the points. Thanks for the help, finally back to ripping this thing!