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Lifan 140 Wiring Troubles

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#1 ·
I'll be damned if i can get any spark from my new 140cc lifan, its the oil cooled engine with 6 pin cdi, ive tried pretty well everything and figured id see if anyone can help.



Engine:

First picture there is a green wire(ground), yellow wire (lights i assume), light green with red stripe(neutral indicator), blue with white stripe, white, black with red stripe.



The Cdi wires you can see.



If it helps there are two wires connected to the pickup for the outter rotor, one wire is green and the other is the blue with white stripe.



I just wanna ride!!!!!!!



thanks, Scott
 

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#9 ·
HI

You may need to run the bigger black box on the new motor or run your old stator/flywheel on the new motor

Big black cdi and small black cdi systems dont interchange
 
#23 ·
I Just picked up an ebay lifan 140 "package" My motor came with a "big" cdi with 8 wires. this sound right? the motor itself has the exact same wires as my small cdi lifan 125. soes this still mean my small cdi wont work? maybe the seller gave me the wrong cdi? oh and for entertainment. he didnt give me any cdi harness at all. if the big cdi is correct for me do i just need to buy that harnessi seen on your sight?
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you help would be appreciated
 
#10 ·
HI

You may need to run the bigger black box on the new motor or run your old stator/flywheel on the new motor

Big black cdi and small black cdi systems dont interchange
 
#12 ·
i just wired up a lifan 140 a couple weeks ago, are you using the CDI and coil that came with the engine?? on my lifan "harness" all the green wires are connected together, they are all grounds. there is a two wire pair coming together off of it that go to the coil, the green wire with a ring terminal was bolted under the coil mounting bolt and the other wire (forget color (black and yellow maybe)) connected to the colored coil wire. the green wire on the coil itself doesnt need to be connected to anything as you use the bolt and ring terminal as ground connection. if you connect the black and white wire coming off of the cdi to any ground it activates the kill. I left it completely disconnected until I got spark.



so, connect the green wire coming off the motor to the green in the harness. don't connect the white, yellow or green/red to anything.the only two wires you have left should match right up to the harness colors and connect to the CDI. if you connect it up this way you WILL get spark. I found that the first few times I checked for spark I had to crank the motor over pretty good to see it. I thought I wasn't getting spark when I actually was. I will be taking my bike apart to finish it up soon so if you need some pics let me know.







this link helped me a bit:



http://www.miniriders.com/tech-talk/9223-need-lifan-140cc-wiring-diamfram.html
 
#13 ·
Hey maybe this will help you. I had a box full of Chinese electrical parts off of some four wheelers that I had acquired and all of the wire harnesses were cut to pieces and I had coils and CDI boxes and had no idea what was what. I started searching around and found some diagrams and put this together to help me out when I build my harness. Hopefully it will help you out.





Wiring Color Code Instructions for CDI Ignition







Wires from CDI Box



Red/Black Stripe Goes to Engine (CDI Exciter Circuit, Primary Coil Charges CDI)

Blue/White stripe Goes to Engine (Trigger Coil)

Green Goes to Stator, Coil and frame (Ground)

Yellow/Black stripe Goes to + side of Coil

Black/White stripe Goes to Ignition Key Switch or On/Off Switch (Switch to Ground for Engine kill)







Stator Wires



Red/ Black Stripe Goes to CDI Box (Primary Coil Charges CDI)

Blue/White Stripe Goes to CDI Box (Coil Trigger)

Green Goes to CDI Box (Ground)

White (AC for Charging Battery)

Yellow (AC for Running Lights)

Green/Red ( Neutral Light)







Useful Links for Wiring



http://www.hooperimp...es.asp?pid=1013

www.Dratv.com
 
#18 ·
I tried my mikuni carb on it last night and runs the exact same way, when your riding it, it will runs perfect for just a split second for every 10 minutes of riding. It will actually let you rev it up and all but its just in very small bursts, very very small bursts. it seems to have plenty of fuel in the float bowl at all times as well.



gonna put fresh oil in it today and seen if that makes a difference, which it shouldnt...
 
#21 ·
UPDATE: I changed the plug, checked the flywheel key, made sure engine was timed correctly, put fresh oil in, adjusted the carb float to allow more fuel. It still just runs in short little bursts, it just kinda does what it wants too. Its almost like it has a Governor and feathers the throttle by itself.