AussieSavage wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:12:Hi.
looks like a good discussion group, my first time here.
I am from Australia and the Savage was imported to Australia for one year in 1986 and never really took off in sales.
Shame as its a nice bike.
My 1986 Savage has a problem. All I did was changed the decompression unit /solonoid and placed the tank back on and the bike would not run past idle and started blowing black smoke out of the exhaust, like it was choking.
A day later it would not start.Found the problem no spark at all
Ive changed the cdi and the coil and its made no difference, still no spark.Have also checked for shorts and nothing.
Ive ordered a new stator and pickup coil and hoping this will bring the spark back.
The bike run well before i changed this part, but the decompression unit was not working properly reason for changing it.
Has anyone had this problem before, or can anyone tell me if I am going about this the right way?
My 1986 Savage has done 95,000km and the motor was reconditioned 8 months ago.
Thanks Gary
If you haven't found the problem yet, I'd go back to step 1 and remove the tank. Seems to me that since the ignition coil shares the mounting bracket with the decompression solenoid that this new problem started there.
Don't replace parts to fix a problem....that's what a dealer does. Too expensive, and 9 out of 10 times the act of removing and replacing something, fixes the problem by accident. Just remove the tank and start looking for loose connections, like on the decompression module, as mentioned above, the ignition coil, and in the electrical harnesses. Something like this is always simple.
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