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So, this is my first post on here, and as it says in my signiature I am very new to this hobby so bare with me if I ask stupid questions or a LOT of questions in general to your responses.
I just bought a 1982 GS450(I think L) from a friend I work with. Put a used Stator in it, brand new battery, and it was running. Key word "was".... We even took turns riding it around the neighborhood for about 30 minutes or so. A friend of mine that is helping me learn how to work on bikes, started checking all the electrical around the bike after we had it running fine. He noticed that we weren't getting an increase in volts when we raised the RPMs which I guess means that there isn't a higher charge coming in to charge the battery. Because of this I purchased a new R/R off of Ebay. When we pulled the old one off it had a decent size crack on the back of it and I figured that must have been the issue. We put the new R/R on and the bike starts right up! Less than a minute goes by and before he is able to start checking any of the electrical, the bike dies and has absollutely no power. That is where we are currently at, assuming a fuse is blown and we're trying to find it.
First question, where abouts would be the most likely place to find a fuse/fuses on this model? And with it being an 82 is it possible that it has the in-line wire fuses?
Second question, when we pulled the original R/R we found that it was smaller than the new one. Is the bigger size just to disipate heat better, or could it be pushing too much and overcharging the system, blowing a fuse on its way through?
Another thing I found odd about the new R/R was that it didn't have the matching wires like the old one did. The old one had a white wire, a white with green stripe, and I think a white with a bold green stripe. Then of course the ground. The new one just has a ground and 3 solid yellow wires. Does it matter which ones are connected to which? or is it fine to connect them in any order?
Thank you so much in advance for any help you can give!
I just bought a 1982 GS450(I think L) from a friend I work with. Put a used Stator in it, brand new battery, and it was running. Key word "was".... We even took turns riding it around the neighborhood for about 30 minutes or so. A friend of mine that is helping me learn how to work on bikes, started checking all the electrical around the bike after we had it running fine. He noticed that we weren't getting an increase in volts when we raised the RPMs which I guess means that there isn't a higher charge coming in to charge the battery. Because of this I purchased a new R/R off of Ebay. When we pulled the old one off it had a decent size crack on the back of it and I figured that must have been the issue. We put the new R/R on and the bike starts right up! Less than a minute goes by and before he is able to start checking any of the electrical, the bike dies and has absollutely no power. That is where we are currently at, assuming a fuse is blown and we're trying to find it.
First question, where abouts would be the most likely place to find a fuse/fuses on this model? And with it being an 82 is it possible that it has the in-line wire fuses?
Second question, when we pulled the original R/R we found that it was smaller than the new one. Is the bigger size just to disipate heat better, or could it be pushing too much and overcharging the system, blowing a fuse on its way through?
Another thing I found odd about the new R/R was that it didn't have the matching wires like the old one did. The old one had a white wire, a white with green stripe, and I think a white with a bold green stripe. Then of course the ground. The new one just has a ground and 3 solid yellow wires. Does it matter which ones are connected to which? or is it fine to connect them in any order?
Thank you so much in advance for any help you can give!
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