Kawasaki KE 100 rebuild/restore

[Rut Row]

Made my wedding on time too.

I would have taken that as an omen and skipped the wedding

[Taylor]

Made my wedding on time too.

I would have taken that as an omen and skipped the wedding

[billy jack]

OK, 1st problem. I'm going thru ignition coils. Not sure what would cause that. I haven't been able to get the right spark plug so I've been using an old chain saw plug(yea, I made sure the electrode wasn't too long) ran just as good as the 1 that was in there. That might nit have been the right plug either for all I know. And since kawi dosen't make the coil anymore i've been using any 6v coil with resistance within the range to book cals for that year. This last coil still gives resistance readings within spec, but the 6v lead to the coil is shorted(measured conductivity to the coil housing/bar) weird thing is, after I found it was shorted, I still got a spark from the plug on that coil. just a small one after about 5 cranks then nothing and that only hapened once, but it's impossible as far as I know. The chainsaw plug usually looks OK(a bit gray after high rpms). Not that reading the WRONG plug is great diagnostic practice, but it's al I've got. Anyway, any advice?

[billy jack]

Forgot to mention. The magneto, coil and kill switch are the ONLY electronics on the bike(that are connected) The only juice runs from the magneto to the coil and kill switch. There's 2 other 6v outputs from the magneto, but they've been disconected and tapped off.