Does your IGN toggle switch connector the W wire to the B/W wire? That is the correct way to do it. The W wire is the main 12V, and the B/W is the IGN feed/out wire. The toggle switch turns the IGN on


Your wiring is messed up. You have a burnt wire, things aren't working correctly and wire colors are changed?

Now you have a choice:
* Try various changes and see if more things work
or
* Wire it correctly

Doing it correctly doesn't mean you have to go back to the Key start system. You can still use the toggle switch and do it right

The coil is interesting because from the factory, the 1200 coil has two wires:
* NEG terminal: Black wire to Distributor
* POS terminal: B/W wire to Ballast Resistor
If you have more than theses wires it is not stock wiring and may have been modified by a previous owner

the engine will run if these wires are reversed, but is not as efficient. Google coil wiring

The easy fix for the coil is to swap the wires


Quote:The B/W wire should go to the POS side of coil, but in any case a B/W wire is the IGN wire (the main 12V supply for running the engine and most of the accessories including the voltage regulator), so that make a kind of sense that putting 12V right there will make things happen

The right way to do it is POS battery wire (White wire from Fusible Link) to the IGN Toggle switch, then out to positive of the coil ballast resistor (B/W wire). Coil POS connected to ballast resistor (not directly to IGN wire). The coil should not be connected directly to 12V or it won't last long




As you can see from this factory wiring diagram, a branch of the B/W wire should also go to the Fuse Box, thus powering meter (dash), voltage regulator, reverse lights, and wiper/washer/heater(fan)

i wired it the way you said to wire it. it still runs and charges took me some time but seems alright i will let you know of any dramas haha cheers ddzongal

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