Needed a battery to try outr the XL100. So I grabbed the battery out of the XT.
Old bike is a 6v system, and to its credit ran the 12v as well as it could. Then the ign. coil burnt out.
Expensive mistake. My expensive mistake. Not going to charge the neighbor for that of course, but it sure took the fun out of this project.
I wouldn't have thought of that. I'd assumed it was 12v too, since cars haven't been 6v since the 50's. What year dud bikes go 12v? I assume only the small CC bikes were still 6v back then?
ReplyDeleteNo idea, I would assume once starters became standard on most models they went to a 12v system. Don't know for sure though. I'll research it.
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