Replacing coil leads.

[Dingo]

In my CB400F and most of the sohc4 bikes (probably others of the era to), the lead comes out of the coil, but they are not replaceable with out changing the coil.

I was reading around the internets and found some tutorials on cutting out the old leads and splicing a new one in place.

Has anyone here done it?

I've bought a set of leads with copper core that's meant to be for old beetles, so I might give it a go on the weekend, but would like to know some tips and tricks before trying it.

 

[Dingo]

I'm planning on doing something like this btw:

http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?s=0152c5ed8c5557527d305c4e7aa82683&threadid=137

 

[Tim]

NGK makes splicers for exactly this purpose.

Old-school guys will tell you to put a finishing nail ground sharp on both ends in the ends of the two cables to splice and stick a Band-Aid on it

So it can be done - but so can new Dyna or other coils that accept proper cables. Adding good cables on the stubbed out ends of 40 year old cables hard-wired into 40 year old coils isn't going to provide any benefit. Only reason to do it is to repair broken / split cables etc.

 

[Dingo]

Thanks Tim,

Being in Mexico, all that stuff isn't so available here, so you either go the old school way or import the parts.

I want to do this because one of the caps is pretty mangled, but only in the aesthetics department, otherwise it works.