sleddineinar
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This fall I bought a 1980 340 Enticer Deluxe for my 9 year old. I paid $225 for it, it had good compression but it didn't have spark. I pulled the wiring harness, looked for bad wiring, tested all the components, everything tested good. So I replaced the CDI with a used one, still no spark. thought I got a bad used unit, so I let it sit for a month while I worked on other things, I drug it back into the garage today and started to retest everything. As I was looking everything over, I noticed the black lead to the coils was not going to the coil, but to a bolt on the fan housing. I put the lead back to the ground of the coil and BAM!! I got spark! Started right up! I should have looked at that closer, sooner. When I bought the sled the guy told me that he took the fan housing off to tighten some loose bolts on the ring gear, and after that it didn't have spark. So glad it was something simple.
Great find! It's always someones else's wiring (or re-wiring) that causes problems...