If life were easy, everyone would be bored to death.

 

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If you think this is a nightmare, you have a good life. But ya can be frustrating. The question is how are you going to proceed?

 

That's a great question. I'm changing the stator because of the pigtail on the old one. And then if it isn't going to hurt the stator I would like to test drive it and see what happens.

 

I am not going to tell a guy to replace the amazon volt reg. Its brand new. I guess wrong, and I am the dumb ***, Going to 16 volts I would not think has anything to do with stator.

I have gone years with plugs leaking on stators. I had 2 the way for awhile, at same time. I have not looked at my new bike, probably don't want to. But I do agree at some point the broken wires would bother me. Is it limiting charging capacity? Dunno.

You are in a pickle got a brand new part, that to me, sounds bad. But brand new, and not my money,. Best case scenario CE fixes it and you pay stupid tax. Worse you listen to some dumb *** on internet and pay dumb tax.

Calendar is flying by too. This is why you need more than bike. Then you can park it in the garage for years thinking about it. Ha.

 

Be carful with the connection on colt reg I had mine of so many times on 2007 the harness broke.

As for splicing stator, let us know what you find, Never heard of anyone doing it. I would go through all that work to splice. Just brake clean it, when this one leaks.

 

Yeah going up to 16 volts don't sound like a stator issue. One of the main jobs of the rectifier/regulator is to take the ever changing input of the stator, convert it form AC to DC, and stabilize it. I've seen lots of things other than the regulator cause voltage drops, but I can't think of anything other than the regulator that would allow voltage to rise too high.

 

What was weird after driving the bike a few days ago was it ran fine with no movement on the voltmeter while riding until I was about 15 miles in and then when I would accelerate kind of hard it would pin the volt meter. Up until that point it would stay between 14 and 15 volts while riding.
As much as I don't want to spend the money I think I have to get another voltage regulator and try it.
I'm also putting the new stator in and not going to mess around with broken wires.

 

Voltage spikes can damage equipment.

Some people tell you the meter is not accurate. Maybe, mine have been ok. But I doubt they should spike even if not accurate.

Side not, I always wanted digital meter, can tell alot. But to lazy and cheap.

 

Is it ok to test the new stator after installed before reinstalling the chain/sprocket and primary cover?