I have a 2000, 800 Vulcan Classic and it's been running fine for over 4 years. The other day I go to start after a couple of weeks with out trying to fire up and the battery was a little sluggish and it didn't start. I charged with a charger connected it and cleaned the connections. I tried to start and the it turned over but no fire. I had and issue with my turn signals that I addressed while I was charging the battery. Basically I had a short on my rear left turn signal and I went through all the cables one by one testing until I found the problem. It was the positive lead going to the rear of the bike. I spliced the wire at the harness and ran a new wire lead to the light and all my turn signals started working just fine. The reason I add this is because I think maybe I might have messed with some wire or something.... at this point I'm stumped. So back to my ignition. First thing I did was take out both spark plugs and check for fire. NO FIRE on either. I checked my clutch safety switch. Basically I had the wires that lead to the switch (which I never had a switch since I bought it) spliced and connected together to bypass. Check the wires and tired to fire the plugs but no fire. checked the oil level but I have plenty of oil. The neutral switch had never been an issue but I really don't know too much about that to check it. Since I bought the bike when I would put bike in neutral the little blue light on the speedometer would light up after a few months the light started giving me trouble and would come on sometimes and sometimes not. It never gave me a problem on starting or engine dying while riding. I figured it was probably a loose connection in the speedometer and just forgot about it. I went to a friend that has a shop and he let me borrow a CDI from a 2002 bike that was working and I put on mine and still no spark. I checked wired leading to coil and the are getting no power either when I turn the key on or when I crank the starter. Obviously, I've check the fuses on the little box next to the CDI and they are good. I'm am so frustrated with this if anyone has any advise for me please help I'm going mad with this beautiful weather and I can't RIDE!!!! I read on some forum that it could be battery even if it's charging good and has power to turn engine it may have a bad cell and this will prevent from spark plugs from firing.... is this true, should I try changing battery?

 

Before you change the battery, try jumping from a known good battery. If you do this from a car, for example, don't have the car running as it's charging system may overwhelm and damage the motorcycle's system.

 

Roger that I just bought cables but didn't know about not running car engine thanks.

 

Well I hooked up my car's battery to my motorcycle and tried to get a spark and nothing no spark. Ok so it's not my battery anyone else got any ideas?

 

You may have better luck at the Vulcan formus:

https://www.vulcanforums.com/forums/

 

Cool Rob I'll give it a try thanks.

I got a friend that sells motorcycle parts trying to help me troubleshoot and he asked a friend who's a mechanic and he says it could be a part that connects to the stator and has to do with the timing of the spark plugs but doesn't know the name of part. Anyone here can save me the trouble of searching diagrams and know what that piece is called?

 

Sorry, I do not.