Frankenstein's-warrior
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Hello all new here. As my name and the title suggests. I have a Frankenstein'd warrior. Bought it a few years ago for super cheap running. Got it home and wanted to straighten up the harness and get a new key as the previous owner lost the old one and "supposedly" bypassed it. Well that may have been true but there's a lot more bypassed on it. I ended up doing something at that time to make it stop running. Tried and tried to mess with it to get it running again to no avail. After sitting I've decided to mess with it again. I've done servicing to it, checked compression to make sure everything is still okay. Now onto the issues I'm here for. I bought a brand new 88 warrior harness as that's what the vin tells me it is. The issue lies in the cdi and I presume the stator also. It looks to have a 86-89 yfm250 cdi and possibly a 95+ warrior stator. Only the plugs are different compared to that stator. Wire colors match though. The quad was running before and since doing whatever I did before it's now not. I'll attach photos as well. I'm not sure how they bypassed all the safety features as there's only one plug in the cdi still and the other 4 ran directly to the stator. They backed into the old harness and tied nearly all the browns and some other wires together. My question is, is anybody mildly familiar with splicing in a cdi on this year since there so hard to come by. I don't feel like spending what the quad is even worth just in parts to get it back to what it should be. It's even cheaper just to buy everything id actually need from a newer warrior and convert it, cause it seems id need new cdi, stator, cover, flywheel, possibly rectifier/regulator and whatever else I might need. I had it where I thought it would run but I just couldn't get the cdi to fire the coil. Im not sure if the stator is toast or cdi is now or what. Stator wires coming out of my motor now are three whites that much original harness, red, white, green, brown. Cdi wires are red/white, black/white, black on a plug matching original harness. Wires that ran straight to stator are white/red, white/black, brown, black. The only wire still hooked up between the two was the brown wire so I do know that goes together. I believe the green on stator is for the charging coil as i get continuity between that wire and the motor so I put it to black on the cdi as if I recall I got ground through that by checking that to the black on the plug. Could be wrong on that and just guessing mostly. Also my start and killswitch worked before on the handlebar and now the plug controlling those doesn't have a plug anywhere since I bought a new one and I think they just had it spliced in. I did get my start to work at one point but it would only click the solenoid. It wouldn't allow it turn the starter. Also starter, solenoid, and coil are new. Any help for the mess is appreciated.
