R/R Dx Success

[keith2]

Just a quick note to thank the board for awesome instructions for diagnosing and fixing a charging issue. My Battery was showing 16-18 volts at 4000 rpm, suggesting a R/R problem. At idle the volts would drop to 10 intermittently and the bike would stall. I went through every test in the stator papers and ruled out anything but the R/R. Ricks motorsports had one to me before I could blink (kudos to them for warp speed shipment) and I'm back on the road. Original owner of a '85 GS700ES and I'm never trading it in.....

[Billy Ricks]

Another original owner of a 700 here too. Couldn't be happier with it.

[BassCliff]

Greetings and Salutations!!

Hi Mr. keith2,

Thank you for sharing your success!

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[keith2]

Thanks for the welcome. I am the original owner of the bike. Put a SuperTrapp header and a K&N stage 3 intake kit on it years ago, and besides tires, that's the only mods. Cleaned the carbs more times than I'd like to admit, but seafoam cured that issue. Would like to ride more but kids, family, etc., etc., you all know the story.....

[jetta90]

I like my 1984 GS 750E so much I couldn't resist buying a second this past November. Bringing that one back to life as well, slowly and surely.
They are such good bikes for what I need a bike to do. Handle great, really quite flickable, not too heavy, and very nice power.
I still giggle like a little boy in a toy store every time the tack needle swings past 5000 rpm and heads toward red line. Silly thing pulls like a freight train.........gotta love it.

[Rkt-Rch]

Ditto !!!! Hope it doesn't rain tomorrow because I'm getting that throttle twitch again.