I don't know if I'm puttin this in the right place or not , but hopefully it reaches all who tried to help Me out with this ole Girl... After day's of testing everything 2 or 3 time's the problem ended up being the spark unit... Found a part's bike on Facebook marketplace , by the grace of God and it had the spark unit , and the harness wich were my 2 main concerns. Swapped out the SU and wallah , She sprang back to life!! Thanks again , I really appreciate Ya'lls help and the Forum for being so kind !! To all that love to ride as I do , keep Your eye's peeled and ride safe !!

 

As I mentioned in my introduction to this forum, I'm in the process of resurrecting a 12/87 built Hurricane for an acquaintance. I do this sort of thing for local fellow riders as a hobby to earn some fuel money and save them lots of $. The bike had not been started for about 4 years and was in a sad state when delivered to me. First thing was to check if it would fire with a new battery and some starting fluid sprayed into the airbox. Nothing. Pulled the plug leads off 2 & 4 cyls, stuck in a couple of spare plugs in contact with the cam cover bolts for good earth, cranked it over and - no spark. Damn!

I searched and found this thread and excellent posts by dannoxyz on diagnosing the no spark issue - brilliant! After cleaning and checking continuity thru the associated wires and connectors and doing the testing as detailed in the relevant part of section 17 of the FSM, which showed that all was within spec or close to it, I did the noid light test he described in post 23. At this stage I had my son here to help as I needed 3 hands - 2 to hold the noid lights in place and 1 to turn the key on and press the starter button. To my pleasant surprise the noid lights flashed alternately, indication that the spark unit, wiring and pick-up coils were doing their job. Great! Next step was to remove the coils and bench test as described above - but before doing so I thought I'd reattach the coil wires and spare plugs and check for spark again. To my even greater surprise, the plugs sparked! Hmmm, obviously poor connecting wires to the coils or wires nearby. So I put the plug leads back where they belong, got my son to crank it while I sprayed some fluid into the airbox and VOILA - it fired!!!

Now onto the carbs - repair kits on order.

Many thanks to dannoxyz. I'm a bit smarter now thanks to him.