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txironhead said:
I don't think it's a brilliant design, personally any petcock that I can't rebuild with 100% confidence it will work is crap. Only about 15% of the people here that have tried to rebuild their petcocks have met with success. However, the point was a new one would work and be a direct bolt-in.

If my petcock goes out I'm going with the design posted by another member: manual petcock with an electric normally-off valve solenoid. That way I don't have to worry about shutting it off, vacuum leaks, hydrolocking, etc.

The best setup I've ever seen on a bike was my Shadow's electric fuel pump and seperate reserve tank. Sure, it's more stuff bolted to the bike but it never gave me a hiccup.

The Pingel is pretty much the only other option, just don't forget to turn it off or you're going to become an expert at changing out your starter clutch bolts and/or the clutch itself.
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For the time being, I did a direct bypass. Her maiden voyage was 6 blocks to work. Performed like a raging bull. But... Charging system is down. Stator is fine. The RR is dead. Spare is dead as well. So, after all the work, I'm hung on the charging system. Frustration doesn't begin to describe my feeling right now.
 
Dead R/R is easy: do a Honda regulator conversion. I've got a $10 Ebay regulator off of a CBR on my bike. Probably won't have another issue with the charging system for another 10-20 years. Took me 10 minutes to wire it in, and it bolted up perfectly. The stock regulator/rectifier on these bikes is just like the petcock: badly designed and prone to catastrophic failure. Like a fried stator or hydrolocked engine.

If you do a search on petcocks in the Technical section, there's a post on how to permanently convert your stock petcock to a simple on/off/prime setup. Basically it's removing the vacuum diaphragm and installing a blockoff plate. Poor man's Pingle.
 
txironhead said:
Dead R/R is easy: do a Honda regulator conversion. I've got a $10 Ebay regulator off of a CBR on my bike. Probably won't have another issue with the charging system for another 10-20 years. Took me 10 minutes to wire it in, and it bolted up perfectly. The stock regulator/rectifier on these bikes is just like the petcock: badly designed and prone to catastrophic failure. Like a fried stator or hydrolocked engine.

If you do a search on petcocks in the Technical section, there's a post on how to permanently convert your stock petcock to a simple on/off/prime setup. Basically it's removing the vacuum diaphragm and installing a blockoff plate. Poor man's Pingle.
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On the petcock, I pulled the core of the diaphram from an old unit I had, mounted it as a gasket and plugged the vacuum port. Ran an inline cutoff and now she behaves for the most part.

On the RR, I picked one up from CRC2 this afternoon; but, problem not solved. I'm still low on volts at 5k rpm though the stator tested good. So either it's bad or something else is wrong that I just haven't found. I don't know which; but, I'm way beyond my limit for agitation at this point.
 
Did you run the regulator tests from the stator papers? Could be a dirty/bad connection.

I know all about frustration: I'm slowly putting my 750 back together, it's only taken a year or so, and while putting on my nice new throttle cable I discovered that the right handlebar switch is stripped out and keeps slipping on the handlebar. Not as major as not charging, but I just can't seem to catch a break either.
 
txironhead said:
Did you run the regulator tests from the stator papers? Could be a dirty/bad connection.

I know all about frustration: I'm slowly putting my 750 back together, it's only taken a year or so, and while putting on my nice new throttle cable I discovered that the right handlebar switch is stripped out and keeps slipping on the handlebar. Not as major as not charging, but I just can't seem to catch a break either.
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Ran the tests on the old one but not on the new one. Battery is brand new and had a full charge on it when we tested. Gettin ready to go back out and get at it again.
 
She's alive! Alive!! Ok, enough drama. After a new stator and a bit of settling in time, Serenity is now a daily driver.
 
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