After resolving my idling issues from head gasket replacement I enjoyed two weeks of trouble free riding. After running to Subway for lunch my battery was dead and I had to push start it in the parking lot (embarrassing).
Knowing my battery was good and my knowledge of the GS charging system nil I logged on to GSR and started reading old posts about charging problems, reviewed the stator papers, details from Basscliff?s web site while reading Nessism beating his drum about bypassing the harness and wiring direct over and over again in all the old posts It made me a believer and a disciple.
I quickly trouble shot the charging system and confirmed it was failing. Narrowed it down to bad wiring or bad regulator. Rewired the regulator direct and everything started working fine, 14.5V at the battery @5,000 with the head light on. Before it was 12.8V. Shut it off, buttoned down all the wring and tested it one more time before riding it. All of a sudden I am getting 15V at idle, the regulators real hot, then nothing drops to 12.4 and never recovers. Assuming I just watched the old gs regulator one die I replaced the regulator with a 2007 Honda cbr version and everything works fine.
Without the help of the collective knowledge and work of GSR members this simple fix would have been very difficult to resolve.
Knowing my battery was good and my knowledge of the GS charging system nil I logged on to GSR and started reading old posts about charging problems, reviewed the stator papers, details from Basscliff?s web site while reading Nessism beating his drum about bypassing the harness and wiring direct over and over again in all the old posts It made me a believer and a disciple.
I quickly trouble shot the charging system and confirmed it was failing. Narrowed it down to bad wiring or bad regulator. Rewired the regulator direct and everything started working fine, 14.5V at the battery @5,000 with the head light on. Before it was 12.8V. Shut it off, buttoned down all the wring and tested it one more time before riding it. All of a sudden I am getting 15V at idle, the regulators real hot, then nothing drops to 12.4 and never recovers. Assuming I just watched the old gs regulator one die I replaced the regulator with a 2007 Honda cbr version and everything works fine.
Without the help of the collective knowledge and work of GSR members this simple fix would have been very difficult to resolve.