MOPED ARMY

this is like seeing your own father get punched int he face or something. ive never known andrewhed to get beaten up by a moped problem like this before. its kind of frightening. . .

HAHAHA

this is just freaking me out. I mean im out of parts to replace lol.

the scary thing is Jay...the spark plug wire cap is a moby one.

Whats the chance it IS the wire cause it was once on a 50v and cracked moving with the variation of a moby?

This started happening to me about a month ago. I was running stock points system from 1980 on my bullet. After adjusting and actually changing the point itself, I took the stator/ignition coil from a 1994 A35 and slapped it on. It ran really really nice for a solid week then started doing the exact same thing again just not nearly as often. I was still crazy fast but it didn't feel safe. One of these days I will just switch to a CDI system. Friend of mine is starting to have the same problem on his ped, and he is cdi so I can't really explain that shit.

your points are always going to arc, theres nothing you can do about it.

set your stator to stock location, set points to stock location, get a brand new condensor.

Wire it up properly. Make sure the wires are connected to where they should go. Ground it properly.

Get a coil that you know works and put it on and ground it correctly.

get a new spark plug cap(2 dollars) and wire ($2?).

and get a new ngk spark plug with the right heat rating.

its not that hard, come on, your probably missing something really silly.

points are always going to arc put if you have a spark plug wire or a plug cap or a ground that has to much resistance or a bad low voltage coil can make you have a ton of spark on the points

clean and sand all your grounds

chang cap and wire

chang low voltage coil

the reason this is frustrating cuperblasto is , well, ive logically gone through and done everything you siad, makes total sense. And your right , its probably something silly, but it not what you and I wrote.

And no, the points should NOT be arcing out if nothings fucked up.

Run it in the pitch black dark.

If you see a slight blue glow like an aura, you are getting spark scatter and replace your High-tension wire, or if bad, the coil case is cracked and swap out another.

Used to do it on the big-blocks and my Jeep back in the day.

That's when I knew to replace the coil and the wires.

Pitch Black. Seriously. If you find an auto repair book from the 70's, it is in there.

If it is humid or after a rain, you will see more of the blue aura.

Spark-scatter.

dude!

if it is backfiring your timing is way off.

lets see of a pic of your stator!!!

Maybe i should have prefaced this by saying ( no im not a "master mechanic" ) that im not a dumass and i remember the days when if our cars died we used to get out, pop the distributor cap and use a fingernail file to clean the points and get back on the road.

I also remember dwell meters and all that fun stuff on cars, figureing out the vaccum advance ( and on some of the wierd foriegn suff we would work on, the centrifical advance)

This is one of those wierd things thats all, just wondering if anyone had any other ideas.

no thats not neccasarily right, backfiring can be caused by hot spots, or other factors no ONLY a condensor and really bad timing.

but in this case its the timing.

I dont think you get that im trying to agree with you. If the plug wire of something else causes too much resistance, the pints arc , and that TOTALLY screws up the timing.

points always arc and wires do not make the timing off.

your wrong.

i dont mean arcing like a tiny bit i mean like fireworks, then jumping off the bottom of the points and zapping to the ignition coil and shit, like crazy wrong. The only thing left is the plug wire. Its not impossible to think it might be that.

a little tiny flicker every now and then is kinda normal. Constant jumping between the points that you can see with the flywheel cover off in the bright sun is not. Thats what ive got going on,

I know it's a Solex article, but the principle of magneto ignition is everywhere the same.