making progress...

i'm leaning towards thinking that the little black ignition module in the dizzy is bad. the wire that goes to the (-) side of the coil should do what? be at +12 and periodically dip to 0 right? My cdi ignition would work with the signal directly out of the dizzy without the ignition module, so maybe I try that tomorrow.

i had a couple times where the engine went blub and almost started, so hopefully get it fixed tomorrow.

also had to ground the CDI box, it wasn't and should be.

bypassed the ignition switch to make sure it wasn't a glitchy key switch, not much difference.

checked wires and the cdi had +12,ground, case ground, coil +/-,and the signal from where the - side of the coil was ( as it had been for months ) The only thing i'm unsure about is the signal from the dizzy, so i guess that's gonna be needed to be checked.

gonna figure this out.