So I was on the freeway on my 92 one day and went to pass only to discover I was already at WOT. Pulled over and the engine shut down on me as soon as I pulled the clutch lever. Through the next 2 months I spent way too much time trying to figure out what was wrong, eventually got it running, but it quickly died. Went to check compression, low on 2 cylinders, but also didn't have spark. Replace plugs while waiting on new head gasket, still no spark. Do head gasket and start tracking spark issue. Every test I could run said everything was good. So it had to be ignitor, get a great deal on one on eBay. Still no spark. Run a new barrage of tests. All is good, but the signal isn't making it to the ignitor, so I get a new pick up coil, still no spark. Turns out, the connector that plugs into the ignitor is making a bad connection somewhere. I've finally gotten the bike where it will try to fire sometimes, but it comes by wiggling the connector, and doesn't last long enough for bike to run. I'm thinking one of my female prongs is broken, but I don't know what the connector looks like originally in order to determine if one of the prongs is or isn't. I was hoping someone could get a pic of theirs and post it for me so I can figure this out.
Or has anyone else had this problem? Any fix suggestions? I'm so frustrated with this problem that I'm about a half a step from selling it and getting something else. I saw another bike like mine at school that I'm sure the owner would love spare parts, as it seems some of our parts (like the pick up coil) have been discontinued by Yamaha. But that's a last ditch effort. I love the bike and I hope to keep it for some time, so any help is greatly appreciated.
