Topic: CB200 Spark Plug Cable Broken - Workarounds?

[earth tones]

One of my spark plug cables was duct-taped to the cap.  Today there was no spark, so I unraveled the duct-tape to reveal a bare wire which was suspended in the cap amongst a lot of grease.  Obviously, the kludge had failed and was no longer making contact with the screw in the cap.  I know that the cable should end in with a cylindrical port that can accept the screw from the cap.  Since this is missing from my cable, can you think of any other workarounds that I could possible adopt to keep this spark plug cable functioning.  The only other option, as far as I can tell, would be to replace the ignition coil to get new spark plug wires....but these aren't easy to find.  Would it possible to simply solder the bare cable to the screw in the plug cap?  Thanks for any suggestions that you might have.

[bryanj]

A new ngk cap should just screw into the end of the cable, if the cable is too short ngk also do an in line joiner---not ideal in the wet but does work

[Raul CB750K1]

One of my spark plug cables was duct-taped to the cap.  Today there was no spark, so I unraveled the duct-tape to reveal a bare wire which was suspended in the cap amongst a lot of grease.  Obviously, the kludge had failed and was no longer making contact with the screw in the cap.  I know that the cable should end in with a cylindrical port that can accept the screw from the cap.  Since this is missing from my cable, can you think of any other workarounds that I could possible adopt to keep this spark plug cable functioning.  The only other option, as far as I can tell, would be to replace the ignition coil to get new spark plug wires....but these aren't easy to find.  Would it possible to simply solder the bare cable to the screw in the plug cap?  Thanks for any suggestions that you might have.

I don't get it - if the cap already have a screw, just cut the wire whatever is needed and screw the cap into the lead. The screw have two functions: mechanical by holding the cap to the rubber/plastic, and electric, by making contact with the inner wire. It doesn't take any soldering nor anything like that, just screw until it doesn't turn more -not more than that, otherwise you will "crossthread" and the cap won't hold.

[Hush]

Use side cutters and slice 1/4 inch off the end of the cable, screw the cap onto the new wire.
Unless you mean the coil end of the wire then you got trouble.

[fmctm1sw]

There's some posts around here (FAQ maybe) that show coils being cut up and rewired if your problem is on the coil end....