Recommended R/R?

[BassCliff]

Oh yea sorry, I did get that from you. I actually just used it to adjust my valves! Didnt see the "Stator Papers" though. BTW, thanks for putting all that info together!

Hi,

This is the first paragraph of the REAE ME page (the "mega-welcome"):

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Dear fellow GS rider,

Let it be known that on this day you are cordially and formally welcomed to the GSR Forum as a Junior Member in good standing with all the rights and privileges thereof. Further let it be known that your good standing can be improved with pictures (not you, your bike)!

Perhaps you've already seen these, but I like to remind all the new members. In addition to the CV carb rebuild series (CLICK HERE for the VM rebuild guide), I recommend visiting the In The Garage section via the GSR Homepage and check out the Stator Papers. There's also a lot of great information in the Old Q&A section. I have some documentation on my little BikeCliff website to help get you familiar with doing routine maintenance tasks (note that it is 850G-specific but many tasks are common to all GS bikes). Other "user contributed" informational sites include those of Mr. bwringer, Mr. tfb and Mr. robertbarr. And if your bike uses shims for valve adjustments, send an email to Mr. Steve requesting a copy of his Excel spreadsheet that helps you keep track of clearances, shim sizes and other service work.

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Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

[smarzinski]

Thanks for the help everyone. Picked up a new R/R, cleaned my connections, now Im just waiting for the new one to get here. Fingers Crossed!!!!!

[smarzinski]

Did the first round of test as instructed in the stator papers. When I hook up the volt meter to the battery and run the bike at 2500 rpms im getting a reading of 12 volts. Doesnt seem right......

[smarzinski]

Great! Tell us about how you plan to ground and connect the hot wires? To where?

Did you test your stator output between all three leads? What were the readings?

Again, not trying to be a jerk or anything, but don't want you to miss a critical item and ruin your new r/r.

- JC

I was just going to hook everything up the way it is, except, instead of using spade connectors I was going to solder the connections and throw some shrink tube over them. Not good enough? If there is a better way let me know. Didnt take your comments as you being a jerk, no problems.

[BassCliff]

Hi,

Have you tested the stator yet? You should be getting more than 12v at the battery at 2500 rpm. Remember to set your volt/ohm meter to AC volts when testing the stator.

Have you cleaned all of your connections and grounds? Have you connected the ground wire from the r/r unit directly to the negative battery terminal? These two steps will help the charging system greatly.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

[smarzinski]

volt meter is crap......have to pick up another.

[duaneage]

I've shipped a few hundred RRs so far and haven't seen a failure yet. I've exchanged a few that were suspected of being bad but all tested out OK. I would not run a stock RR on a GS, sooner or later the diodes go bad and they take the stator with them.

[smarzinski]

I picked up a R/R off of a cbr1000rr.

[850 Combat]

I was just going to hook everything up the way it is, except, instead of using spade connectors I was going to solder the connections and throw some shrink tube over them. Not good enough? If there is a better way let me know. Didnt take your comments as you being a jerk, no problems.

I totally agree with the soldering. I soldered the stator wires just today on a bike that I put a Duaneage Honda reulator on two years ago. It did not need ian R/R, I just wanted to upgrade. Its a bike I have been slowly fixing up to use, and now it is ready. I noticed the last few days that it wasn't all that thrilled about spinning the starter. I have been riding it daily with electric vest in the 40 degree rain. I pulled the side cover off and looked at the wires. All three of the stator connectors were hot, one of them was very hot in under 5 minutes of idling. 15 minutes later they were soldred. Now the connections are cool and my starter spins like it should.

I think those overheated connections toast the expensive charging system components. Good connections and additional grounds keep that from happening.

This bike was one of the first I messed with, and it also does not have the grounds I like to add yet, although I did ground the R/R to the battery.

I think the factory crimps on the stator (AFTERMARKET INSTALLED BY THE po) were the problem, but soldering fixed it permanently.

[SVSooke]

Friend of mine took the harness of his 84 750 completely apart.There is 5 or 6 feet of completely unnecessary wires in it.The wires from the stator go quite easily to the R/R.Soldered mine to the OEM conectors.My friend got me a FH008 R/R that I will put in as soon as I can.

[smarzinski]

I totally agree with the soldering. I soldered the stator wires just today on a bike that I put a Duaneage Honda reulator on two years ago. It did not need ian R/R, I just wanted to upgrade. Its a bike I have been slowly fixing up to use, and now it is ready. I noticed the last few days that it wasn't all that thrilled about spinning the starter. I have been riding it daily with electric vest in the 40 degree rain. I pulled the side cover off and looked at the wires. All three of the stator connectors were hot, one of them was very hot in under 5 minutes of idling. 15 minutes later they were soldred. Now the connections are cool and my starter spins like it should.

I think those overheated connections toast the expensive charging system components. Good connections and additional grounds keep that from happening.

This bike was one of the first I messed with, and it also does not have the grounds I like to add yet, although I did ground the R/R to the battery.

I think the factory crimps on the stator (AFTERMARKET INSTALLED BY THE po) were the problem, but soldering fixed it permanently.

Well, this is kind of comforting. From what you explained, it sounds exactly like what was happening to me. I stopped for gas and the bike had a hard time turning over. Just waiting for my new Fluke to get here just to run some test to be safe then Ill be wiring in the new R/R. Ill also be grounding to the battery like you said.

[smarzinski]

Friend of mine took the harness of his 84 750 completely apart.There is 5 or 6 feet of completely unnecessary wires in it.The wires from the stator go quite easily to the R/R.Soldered mine to the OEM conectors.My friend got me a FH008 R/R that I will put in as soon as I can.

Sounds like a good winter project! I wanted to do something to clean up the wiring anyways.

[SVSooke]

Sounds like a good winter project! I wanted to do something to clean up the wiring anyways.

Check out my build thread.That's a winter project for you!

[smarzinski]

All of the wires that were melted were at the spade connectors the p.o. put in. All of the other wires look fine. Im fighting the urge to connect the new one and fire the bike up!!! Im hoping that the connectors were the culprits and thats all its gonna be......hoping! Also ran a wire long enough to ground directly to the battery. My only question is, what do I do with the original ground wire in the wire harness?

[Billy Ricks]

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=152769&highlight=grounds