No charging while running, flickering lights and that dang popping.

[Redman]

Guess I should ask this, because of m regulator being new, aswell as mystator, and both being good brands, can the stator rotor cause any of this mishap?. . . . . . .

Can ANYthing of the charging system cause engine running problem: Not really (was going to mention something of this earlier...)
Think of it this way: You dont really need a stator-R/R-ChargingSystem for the engine to run. You can disconnect the charging system and engine will start and run, . . . . and run . . . . until battery voltage is too low. Well, as battery voltage goes low the ignition get a bit weak, but basically the entire bike/engine will run as long as battery still has good charge.

Or you mean you light flickering problem.....
I havent got a good picture of what manner your lights are flickering. OR if this happens all the time, or only at high rpms, or what. Erratic or pulsating.
Might be good to measure battery voltage (or at main fuse) while this is happening to see if voltage is fluctuating.

[Burque73]

Ian, have you ever ran the engine without the battery being connected? As in start it and disconnect the battery to test something? Please DON'T DO THAT! Ask me how I know...



Ok, since you asked, we used to think that was a good way to see if an alternator was bad on a car, maybe it is maybe not. Just ignorant mechanics. Anyway, I did that a few years ago with my 850 to see if the stator put out enough juice to keep things moving. It didn't take but a second for a power surge shoot through the system. The headlight got really bright and blew out, and I shut it down.

End result, reg/rec bad, battery fried from being over charged, stator badly wounded but not dead yet. Changed to SH775, replaced headlight bulb and eventually new stator.

[timebombprod]

Okay so the lights only flicker when it's at idle speed and tries to lower, when the pop happens its only at idle speed or a bit above, when it pops the bikes rpm drops about 100 rpm but goes back up right after.


I know the charging system shouldn't be doing thisnhutnseeing that I keep having to mess with the system and this problem keeps occurring with the inconsistent popping i dont know where to really look. The whokenignition system is new and working properly.

I'm gonna be messing with the carbs a bit seeing that the bigger size pilots were a bust, once i have those in and at appropriate amount it turns I'll be testing things.


I know not to hook the bike up to anything else! No worries on that one I did it once very long ago and that's why the stator and refukatornever got replaced.

[timebombprod]

Just changed spark plugs knowing they were fuel fouled to some cleaner one, 4 was wet but I made sure it sparked and sure enough it does. Have the carbs off about to drain them, make sure everything looks clean and passes through correctly and tr hen put stock pilots on and place back on. Make sure it idles and responds how it did last week and then onto messing with stator.

[timebombprod]

Was checking tightness of intake boot bolts and the bolts for where you put your sync tool were definently loose, I dont know about hand tighten but they definently needed to be done. Hopefully that's my hanging idle problem. I think it makes some sense, it wouldn't always do it(washer being in right spot stopping it) and when checking for leaks I couldn't get any real indication(washer blocking passage). Gonna get the stock pilots in and run it.

[timebombprod]

Unfortunately not the problem, gonna be testing stator and for vacuum leaks.

Gonna switch ground finally and hope that also helps, I cant see what else could be the issue if everything is right.

Maybe a bad coil plug or something like that because i have the same ones since before new coilpacks. They past the resistance test though but I dont know if theres anything else that they could fail.