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Originally Posted by LJ851 View Post
Switching the wires does more than change the timing, it throws off the rotor phasing to the cap which is why it runs so poorly in addition to the timing change.
The part that threw me off is that I checked the signal from the green wire going to the cdi box with the oscilloscope and it looked correct. But obviously, I can tell now that the wires are switched, I was wrong.
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