Easily my favorite youtuber. I love the attention to detail and how much detail you show in your videos. Hope you are feeling well and stay strong. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. I think this bike would look amazing with the updated plastics
Check connections for orientation and correct position, check killswitch, check grounds, make sure plug cap is firmly on wire. Looking pryme, awesome build!
I honestly laughed when you said it didn't have spark. I've had nothing but wiring nightmares on my supermoto and that seems to be the problem with it now. I don't mind soldering and running wires but when it comes to tackling the nest of wires behind my headlight, I just don't even want to bother. Best of luck Cameron. Glad to see you're still positive, as usual. Keep up the amazing work.
hope you feel better soon, building bike can be good therapy. During 4 years of dialysis, and 2 transplants I built a 83 sportster, and my current 15 ktm250sx
I could be wrong but im pretty sure the wiring goes up the left side of the frame because the kill switch plugs into the main wire and goes right up to the bar on the clutch side. Builds looking sweet man so stoked to see this thing run. Stay up dude 👊👊
Start from the top of the chain, hook a voltmeter to the generator and see that you have current generated. Then you need check the sensor on the crank is giving signal to the computer. The coil you can use ohm meter to check is not burned. And yes, check your killswitch!
I have a few ideas for your electrical issues. I doubt it’s the kill switch as I’m pretty sure that a normally open circuit so first check the grounds then pull the spark plug boot off and make sure you have a good connection to the plug. Then pull out the manual and check resistance and voltage on the coil. If that’s not it check the stator and pick up coil. If that’s all where it’s supposed to be cdi is probably the culprit it’s almost never the wiring harnesses good luck with this and the hospital visit
I don’t think it’s the kill switch because it’s not on the bike yet, and most two strokes don’t need a kill switch to run you can always take a piece of wire and short the two leads for the kill switch together at the harness to close the circuit and test for spark but I’m 90% sure it’s not going to be that simple
Welcome back! PLEASE use full safety equipment and absolutely no contact with any chemicals. Your hands are back to their regular color. Keep up that excellent work. Cheers!
Cam is so nice and kind guy. I live so far away from the USA, I wish I had friends like Cameron. I wish you good health!!! And hope one day you will take this beast to ride for as long as you want.
Well i am going to go with the Pulser as your electrical problem. I just had a no spark issue on my CR500 and that is what it was, so maybe yours too. Glad to see you back.
Inspect the plug boot to ensure the plug is in full contact with wiring cap ( sometimes they get separated when taking the boot off the plug). Good luck with your medical treatment and I hope to see wrenching away again on the CR.
Test stator coils for correct resistance values. If all coils check out, and all wiring connections are good, replace Cdi. You inspired me to restore my old yz490k. After the restore the bike would only run backwards. (It has never run for me before) after tons off sleepless nights and replacing everything except the rotor. I bought a good used rotor, and bam she’s prime. First timer Ive ever had to replace a rotor! Thanks Cam! You are Prime
very nice work cameron. I am happy to see you back working youtube had a real down fall when your not posting lol hope you feel better and thank you for showing the younger guys that you can rebuild and fix stuff not gust go buy new and trash everything good luck and god bless
Maybe a bad ground wire somewhere? I know when a build throws you for a loop its no fun. But Hondas are strong just like you!!! Get better soon dude, you will figure it out.
@6:40 my mind blew!! I was wondering what the electronics to my CR85 do.. I know the CDI but was just wondering about that ignition condenser. Most informative thing ever!
Ordered a shirt, bud. Hang in there. I said in a video some time ago, my daughter had Leukemia as well. Long road, but she is healthy now and doing good. God speed
Kill switch needs to be connected to get spark. You can see the two wires dangling half way up the frame. Second pull or unscrew the plug cap and cut a couple mm’s off the plug wire to get a fresh connection and also throw some dielectric grease there. Those would be my first two points. If those are fine you need to get a quality meter refer to your owners manual then check for your hot and ground points first at all connections. The manual is great to find faults in an electrical system. It tells exactly where to start on which color wire.
Great job. One pointer though, dielectric grease isn't supposed to be used between the mating surfaces of connections even though if there's enough mechanical pressure you can get away with using it that way. It is not conductive. It's designed to be applied on the outside of the connection to seal it from corrosion. This could be why you have no spark. Also, spin the engine faster to check spark.
You need to try and close the loop on the killswitch wires. When u push the killswitch it opens the connection and kills the spark. So install your killswitch or touch the wires together. Good luck bro
Trick question. Bad spark plug grounding. Hold the plug against the frame and try again. Your shot of the plug shows it gently resting on your coated(non-conductive) head and head nut.
To possibly help with problems...I don’t know if this is the case butttt I think the flywheel need to be spinning pretty fast to be able to generate enough “electricity” to power the coil. maybe, try having someone hold your plug against the block while you give it a good firm kick. Almost got it cam! super excited to see you finish it man looks awesome!!!!!! (Best builds I’ve ever seen) super clean! You’ve inspired me to do the same. I’ve became more patient with my builds and really started checking over everything! swing arm bushings and bearings, triple tree bearings and bushings suspension joints.. everything! (thank you bro) Otherwise, I would start off by checking your kill switch... If there’s any possible way I could meet you and get a tour of your shop to help me with my shop set up and builds and tools I would be more than willing to wait till your available and pay and donate to you bro I need help too hope I could help
I expected that you would succeed. I wanna hear the new exhaust for the first time. That might be awesome. (I will build up my own bike someday. Your are almost there!
Cameron querido , espero que tu tratamiento esté dando sus frutos , te admiro por tu capacidad con la mecanica de motos , te mando un gran abrazo desde argentina , fuerza mi amigo de youtube!! Estoy contigo
I'm not a mechanic or a dirtbike lover. I know nothing about bike. But I enjoy your video a lot. The patience and passion is very very impressing. Stay strong, man! God bless you. Oh, by the way I don't see the battery here.
Good to see you back, Cam. I would bust out the multimeter and test the spark plug, then the stator ohms. If you're able, also test the voltage of the stator. You will need a peak voltage adapter for your multimeter to test this. I was chasing this problem on a stator - ohms read perfect, but had bad voltage. This caused a no or low spark situation. Last, if it all else checks out, it's probably your CDI. There's no way to test those without replacement of a good one.
Everyone seems to misuse dielectric grease.. Dielectric means it doesn’t conduct electricity so putting it on electrical connections? Should be on rubber seals on spark plugs for example to stop sparks jumping and also preventing ingress
Stay strong cam I love all your videos and have learned a ton about dirt bikes your one of my biggest inspirations and i have watched your videos for a good while
Just stumbled over your channel recently and looked through your channel and saw your videos where you have been in hospital. Hope you will get better soon and the cancer goes away. Sorry for my bad english. Greetings from austria:)
Sorry I missed you when this was live. I was at work... Got yelled at 3 times for watching!! Was worth it. I love your videos! I reference them slot whenever I'm tinkering on my 2002 CR 250R!! Or any dirtbike!! Thank you for all the great info & killer edits!! Cant wait for the next video!! STAY PRYME!!!!
I really enjoy the content you create! And it helps me to understand how components work, the installing videos you upload, makes it a lot easier for me to install parts correctly on my own bike! Stay strong Cameron!
For future reference, it's always far better to install actuator/motors, and then activate them. For instance, if you try that on an unloaded/installed window regulators you screwed. And messing around with that actuator is just dumb. You have a potentiometer in there, that if you fail to clock position correctly it will be ruined from over extending the sweep on the carbon track inside the potentiometer. The potentiometer tells the control unit the position of the exhaust valve. Best to leave well enough alone. Just my .03
