Secondary coil resistance

[yellowandfast]

Long story short, I washed and waxed up my Vmax for storage last fall. I tried to start it to move it, and it would not start, wet plugs from old rubber on spark plugs. Plus I found a cap on its way out. So fast forward to today when Im replacing the caps, plugs and doing other preseason maintenance, I find that I cannot get an ohm reading on any of the coils secondary sides. What gives? I checked all the caps before installing them and even removed the wires and check those too, all good, except the fact that I cant get a reading on the coils?

 

[maleko89]

How are you measuring? Positive lead should solidly be in contact with wire post and neg lead on good engine bolt.

 

[yellowandfast]

I was measuring all the coils exactly how its shown in my factory service manual.

Could all the coils be bad and still have the bike run?

 

[maleko89]

No, either measuring wrong post on connectors or meter is bad or range not set high enough. When i measure to ensure it's all connected properly i measure from boot to ground. It should read about 18.5 kohms assuming using 5k caps.