Ignition module question
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What sensor????
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Older Evo Sloptails have the module mounted on the underside of the oil bag, not exactly an easy place to get to, and not exactly the coolest place, either. When I stripped my '87 to its bones I found the P/O had installed an SE module. Since I was replacing the horseshoe bag with a round one I sorta lost the easy mounting location. Plus the stock modules had about eleventy-seven wires, which just seems like too many. I went with a cone module, a Dyna S DS6-1. Only 2 wires from the cone to the coil. Used a high quality mechanical advance unit, and all has been trouble-free for several years.
FWIW, other electrical upgrades include a later alternator with a regulator that doesn't shunt the excess output to ground, a Spyke SuperTorque starter, Accel solenoid, and ThrottleX battery. Did away with the starter relay completely as my switch box (lights, horn, turns, etc.) uses a heavy duty MilSpec SPST spring return toggle switch to directly power the solenoid.
The switch box itself was used to power the recognition lights on a WW2 Navy aircraft. That box sat in my Dad's footlocker for 30+ years until he mounted it on my first chop, a '72 XLCH. Since then it has migrated from the '72 to a '78 FLH, and now to the '87 FLST.
Older Evo Sloptails have the module mounted on the underside of the oil bag, not exactly an easy place to get to, and not exactly the coolest place, either. When I stripped my '87 to its bones I found the P/O had installed an SE module. Since I was replacing the horseshoe bag with a round one I sorta lost the easy mounting location. Plus the stock modules had about eleventy-seven wires, which just seems like too many. I went with a cone module, a Dyna S DS6-1. Only 2 wires from the cone to the coil. Used a high quality mechanical advance unit, and all has been trouble-free for several years.
FWIW, other electrical upgrades include a later alternator with a regulator that doesn't shunt the excess output to ground, a Spyke SuperTorque starter, Accel solenoid, and ThrottleX battery. Did away with the starter relay completely as my switch box (lights, horn, turns, etc.) uses a heavy duty MilSpec SPST spring return toggle switch to directly power the solenoid.
The switch box itself was used to power the recognition lights on a WW2 Navy aircraft. That box sat in my Dad's footlocker for 30+ years until he mounted it on my first chop, a '72 XLCH. Since then it has migrated from the '72 to a '78 FLH, and now to the '87 FLST.
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