Always something.....
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Always something.....
On my way to escort Santa to deliver some presents this morning and the bike starts missing. I thought plugs might be fouled so I turned around and limped it to an Auto Zone, bought new plugs and swapped them out. Hit the ignition switch and nothing, no voltage at all so either the Taiwanese battery that the previous owner installed is toast or its my charging system. Auto Zone's tester wouldn't work on it, although it worked fine on a new battery off the shelf. After I towed the bike home, I put the battery on my charger and my charger wouldn't detect that the leads were hooked up and I was showing over 13 volts with my ohmmeter on a battery that I know isn't fully charged. I take the battery to Advance auto to have them test it so that I don't spend $100.00 throwing a new battery at this thing and it not fix the problem. The tester at Advance shows it needs a charge but wasn't showing any other unusual signs. I'm going to let them charge it overnight and hopefully tomorrow I can determine whether I need another battery or a new stator.
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I'm leaning more toward a bad battery right now, but I won't know until tomorrow. I want it fully charged when we do the load test so I know for sure what I've got.
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When I bought my 1996 EVO, it would not charge the battery, I followed the procedure in the service manual to test the stator, and it tested good, so I changed out the regulator and it has been good ever since. All you need to test the stator with is a AC voltage meter, and the bike has to start to test it.