Found dead 55
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Well, i finally got the cart with all the bells and whistles that i would ever need for my application. Picked up an extremely clean 94 EZGO Marathon (personally my favorite body style) I sold my old 76 Taylor Dunn T-bird and with that I got my baby, but it has no spark, hence the reason the seller gave me a killer deal, he replaced the ignitor, ignition coil, solenoid, battery, but the new coil that it had, was DOA, cheap Amazon coils are known to do this I've heard, but i purchased another one, off of Amazon, ya, big mistake, it too burned out before i ever got any spark, one thing about Amazon, returns, so they sent me another coil, but I'm afraid to wire it in and attempt to fire it up before i can get some type of answer to what i had noticed with the coil in the first time around, when i removed the white and red wires from the coil, i noticed a pretty decent increase in the engines RPMs and the opposite when i removed them, i know something about engines, i wrenched on bikes since i was 5 and from what i know, 1st lead to the coil is the pulse sensor signal and the 2nd the ground, now when i got the cart, i did check the coil that was on it ava it fell sorry if the specs, no i know it was bad and the first new coil checked out but after installing and trying to start it up, i got nothing, so checked the new coil and found that it had fried before i ever got a spark, so now I've got the second (Amazon sellers replacement) now installed, but i would like to hear from ago you out there, to see if i can get some kind of answer, for why the coil burned out so fast, now before you say, you get what you pay for, ya i know, but what caused that change in RPMs when the pulsar coils leads were taken off and put back on, that I've not seen before, maybe the pulsar coil isn't any good or it's not getting a signal input from flywheel, or possibly grounded out, I'm at a loss, i know the motor is good, 150 psi in both cylinders, so just need to figure out the no spark problem, before i start throwing darts/parts at it, i would like to find a good place to start, like i said it's had many electrical parts replaced on it but the prior owner only said, it ran for 5-10 mins then died and sold it to me, like i also said, it's a very nice cart, someone had dumped a lot of money into it back in the day and I'm sure I'm 94 it stood out among the rest. There are so many stores and threads or there about an ez-go losing spark, but i guess I'm just wondering, what caused that change in the RPMs and killed that new coil so fast, hopefully someone has seen this, I've heard that the throttle sensor switch has an odd sign when it's bad, could this be it. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you