Hi, without thinking too deeply [sleep time over here], 'does' sounds electrical & my first port of call [apart from obvious things like plug or cap] would be the stator source [ign charge] coil. Without looking it up i'd say 350 ohms give or take a little. You'd be surprised what bad fitting multi plug connectors can do too, if in doubt replace with good crimp on individual ones. All a bit of an [un]educated guess on my part. But, if it starts easy & keeps running but misfiring it's probably not that sorry as usually are hard to start through low voltage. Starting to bamboozle myself but i suppose changing the main coil under the tank is easiest to eliminate [or hopefully fixes it]. Raced A 175G back when new & loved it, mate had a PE175 & we were pretty evenly matched. That's reminded me i have an IT200 hidden under other junk--time to resurrect it, put a tt600 front end in to be able to wheel around as boy bought it as a basket case to use the disc front end in the 490--sorry, another long story. Someone else might have better ideas for your IT175 & hope you get it sorted. Cheers.
