bikerjohn Posted June 4, 2014 #1 Posted June 4, 2014 Hope you and Tippy are alright meat the nicest couple they are Cow Puc and tippy. called me having stator troubles got them to the house and on the rode to Squidley for some repairs. You two have very safe travels and looking forward to seeing both of you at Venture West!!
Flyinfool Posted June 4, 2014 #2 Posted June 4, 2014 Glad you got them back on their way. What is withe the rash of charging issues this year. It seems like there is a couple every week.
cowpuc Posted June 5, 2014 #3 Posted June 5, 2014 Mine appeared to have been the result of using resistance at one spade on the stator harness terminal gettin hot n melting thru enough tocontact one of the other two wires. Stator was toast. Between bikerjohns and his wifes kindness and assistance and squidley and his wifes kindness and assistance tweeks is back on the road and doing greatl I have much more to write about the whole deal but it is hard on this tab... will say this, there are 4 texans out there now that I cant thank enough,, on my heros list! puc
MidlifeVenture Posted June 5, 2014 #4 Posted June 5, 2014 When you take a break maybe you could explain where this connector is might be worth checking and cleaning if it is not to hard To get to. Safe travels and enjoy
cowpuc Posted June 5, 2014 #5 Posted June 5, 2014 When you take a break maybe you could explain where this connector is might be worth checking and cleaning if it is not to hard To get to. Safe travels and enjoy Beautiful texas nite here, gotta be 85, very dry air about 250 due west of san antone. Those are under left body side cover on 1st gens. The connector with 3 white wires going into it are the stator wires. Stock Connector is two blades side by side and one across. You look and see the terminal box getting brown from heat its time to replace. I should have hardwired those three wires instead of using a new connector back when I replaced it, hindsite 20 20. When squidley and I were putting it back together he offered to hardwire this time and I agreed. The connector that melted was not that old. Tweeks, my bike, has very minimal amp draw, use dialelectric spareingly on all my connectors, still failed. I am not sure on the second gens where the stator wires are in the harness. Squidley, or others will have two answer that, never worked on one. I am sure though that they do have a 3 phase system so it should be a simple matter of following the harness coming out from under the forward bevelgear bearing housing, probably be two harness sets there, trace the one you can feel 3 larger wires inside of.. it dont take much corrsion on that connector for heat to start.. I looked at mine before I left and it was fine, but,,, I believe I used to soft of a connector plastic wise when I put it together.. it was rated properly but some of these connectors coming from offshoremake me wonder.. tell ya one thing, if it fails again it wont be from 2 phase wires making contact,, that squidly,,,, he can wire ! mans its nice here, amazing how much drier the night air is than in san antone..... puc
Dragonslayer Posted June 5, 2014 #6 Posted June 5, 2014 Puc, Glad to see your up and running. I've had the same issue on my 1st gen you are exactly right. 9 times out of 10 a electrical problem will turn out to be caused by a bad connection at a quick connect plug.
Yammer Dan Posted June 5, 2014 #7 Posted June 5, 2014 That Squidley knows his way around a bike. And he come in handy if you need to find your tent. Glad you got it going. I had planned a lot of riding this summer but life keeps getting in the way. I'll do it next year???
jakester Posted June 5, 2014 #8 Posted June 5, 2014 Uh...250 miles west of San Antonio...that's Old Mexico:no-no-no:. San Antonio is about an hour from Del Rio, that borders Acunia,Mexico. Might better check that good ole map again. Well, maybe this is your chosen route. best of luck to you. Bill:080402gudl_prv:
cowpuc Posted June 5, 2014 #9 Posted June 5, 2014 Uh...250 miles west of San Antonio...that's Old Mexico:no-no-no:. San Antonio is about an hour from Del Rio, that borders Acunia,Mexico. Might better check that good ole map again. Well, maybe this is your chosen route. best of luck to you. Bill:080402gudl_prv: Oppps,,, sorry never was much good with directions, more a ride by feel kinda guy... makes it hard too cause when someone asks how to get to something cool we saw while out chasing the wind, most of the time I haveno idea how to find it again... anyway,,, thatshould have read,,, north 50 miles, west 41 miles, north 82 miles west 41miles and so on,,,, kinda forming a zig zag line west by n8rth by northwest... whereever this little southwest texas town is that we arein right now it is 110 and beautiful riding,,,, in small doses...
jakester Posted June 5, 2014 #10 Posted June 5, 2014 Sounds like somewhere close to San Angelo area. Have lots of fluids my friend, it's a warm one out today. Best of luck to you. Bill
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