We have a 98 road glide. It won't take a complete charge and battery drains. It has new battery. Stator and voltage regulator were replaced a year ago. Any ideas?

 

Loose terminals? Corrosion at the terminals?

Did you measure the stator output after the bike is started (between it and the voltage regulator)? Did you measure the output at the battery terminals when the bike is running?

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take your inner primary cover off , if your stator is gone you will smell it , if it's ok check connections

 

Everything worked fine until installed a cat eye tail light. Also replaced load equalizer.

 

He's checked everything that has been posted above. Said its a rwd cat eye tail light. That's when problem started.

 

first off check the battery.

take it out

charge it on a real battery charger ( not a tender)

then load test it.

- new does not always mean good- it may have failed*.
with a duff battery the charging system checks will give skewed numbers causing you to chase your tail- time and money wasted.

once that checks ok we can continue and see if the charging system is ok or whether something is draining the battery when the bike sits ( which could be a miswired light or other circuit or a bad regulator diode)

mike

*over the years I have had a number of batteries fail. dry cell, wet cell, AGM

 

Change the taillight back to what was there before and see if it still doesnt charge. Its alot easier to work backwards than forward when you added something that caused the problem.

 

Looks like rotor is bad

 

...magnets fell off?

that can happen if air impact tools are used on the compensating sprocket bolt.

if the magnets get loose, they'll usually destroy the stator too $$$

mike