Please help me!!!!

[Guest]

I have a 1981 Suzuki gs1100e. The stator was bad so I ordered a NEW ONE. The old one was the factory one. The New one came in and all the wires are the same color. The old one has a blue/white, yellow, and a green/white wire. The new one is all yellow. How do I figure out which on goes where? Please some one help me.

[hampshirehog]

It doesn't matter which lead goes where.

[R1reaper]

Yeah After looking at the wiring diagram, and ready about a three phase system it clicked. thank you though

[Nessism]

Do some information searching around here about how to properly wire the stator into your bike. It's a mistake to plug the stator back into the factory harness. Suzuki GS's are great bikes but Suzuki really messed up the charging system wiring. Failure to rewire the system can result in melting down the harness up where the hand control connects into the main loom.

[R1reaper]

Does anyone have a working link to a manual? I had it saved but now it will not open? The set up he sent was for a 1000. Not a 1100e. Why put something up for sale that is wrong then expect me to pay shipping to return it? Anyways the wait to ride continues. Thanks

[steveb922]

Hope this works:

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/

[John Park]

Do some information searching around here about how to properly wire the stator into your bike. It's a mistake to plug the stator back into the factory harness. Suzuki GS's are great bikes but Suzuki really messed up the charging system wiring. Failure to rewire the system can result in melting down the harness up where the hand control connects into the main loom.

I don't think this model has any stator wiring going to the light switch. Gone by the '80's from what I see. That said, it's free to download a wiring diagram. And if a bike has run this long on the factory harness, it can't have been that bad an idea. I've seen those 'switched' oldies worn to death with stock wiring setup; that said, I'd be dubious about running a 'big' headlight bulb through one.

[Nessism]

I don't think this model has any stator wiring going to the light switch. Gone by the '80's from what I see. That said, it's free to download a wiring diagram. And if a bike has run this long on the factory harness, it can't have been that bad an idea. I've seen those 'switched' oldies worn to death with stock wiring setup; that said, I'd be dubious about running a 'big' headlight bulb through one.

Hey John,

You might want to do some more research about the wiring. One stator leg is sent up to the handlebar switch, where it turns around and heads back to the R/R. All this extra wire length and connectors often overheats and melts the main harness along the way. This is all well covered in about a bazillon older threads here. This is why it's critical to rewire the charging system, not plug into the factory contacts.

[Grimly]

Does anyone have a working link to a manual? I had it saved but now it will not open? The set up he sent was for a 1000. Not a 1100e. Why put something up for sale that is wrong then expect me to pay shipping to return it? Anyways the wait to ride continues. Thanks

He sent you the wrong sized one?

[John Park]

Hey John,

You might want to do some more research about the wiring. One stator leg is sent up to the handlebar switch, where it turns around and heads back to the R/R. All this extra wire length and connectors often overheats and melts the main harness along the way. This is all well covered in about a bazillon older threads here. This is why it's critical to rewire the charging system, not plug into the factory contacts.

Not on the ones with the constant on headlights. If there isn't a switch then there isn't a wire to fry. And I didn't find an '81 1100 diagram but did look at an '80-82 one and the three stator leads go straight to the R/R. I just wired my [82] bike and it's the same.

If I don't have anything but a dimmer switch at the bar, what am I supposed to fix? After all, switching out one leg was there to compensate for turning off the headlight. I'm not trying to start an argument, just trying not to get the OP into the finer points when all he wanted to know was whether the colour code mattered.

[posplayr]

Not on the ones with the constant on headlights. If there isn't a switch then there isn't a wire to fry. And I didn't find an '81 1100 diagram but did look at an '80-82 one and the three stator leads go straight to the R/R. I just wired my [82] bike and it's the same.

If I don't have anything but a dimmer switch at the bar, what am I supposed to fix? After all, switching out one leg was there to compensate for turning off the headlight. I'm not trying to start an argument, just trying not to get the OP into the finer points when all he wanted to know was whether the colour code mattered.

Even if there is no headlamp switch, for commonality in production Suzuki did not change the main harness and that loop is running throughout the harness. There could be an exception but in every harness schematic i have ever seen this to be the case.

[R1reaper]

After going through the harness. I found the problem. It was a bad ground wire. Thanks guys ya'll are great. Still no working manual though. 1981 Suzuki gs1100e manual. If anyone has one please post it. Thank you in advance.

[steveb922]

http://zeus.mtsac.edu/~cliff/storage/gs/80-83_GS1100T-LT-EX-1000SZ-EZ-SD-ED-ESD.pdf

[Gorminrider]

Not on the ones with the constant on headlights. If there isn't a switch then there isn't a wire to fry. And I didn't find an '81 1100 diagram but did look at an '80-82 one and the three stator leads go straight to the R/R. I just wired my [82] bike and it's the same.

If I don't have anything but a dimmer switch at the bar, what am I supposed to fix? After all, switching out one leg was there to compensate for turning off the headlight. I'm not trying to start an argument, just trying not to get the OP into the finer points when all he wanted to know was whether the colour code mattered.

...Just as an oddity and I'm not sure past '82, but with some of these Suzukis that have no headlamp "on/off" switch, they left the loop in! I guess they wanted to use the ol' harnesses...