Oh No!!!!!! Not Again...

[brianinpa]

I have been having carb issues with the 1200 so I haven't been riding it too much. Today I wanted to ride it around the block and it fired right up, even after sitting for 4 weeks without even being started. Oh yeah!!!!

Got half way down my street and cough, cough, sputter, splat! Nothing! I pushed it home and tested the battery... dead - 7 volts. Ok, so I put it on the charger and give it a charge. A few hours later and I am reading 14 volts, good - ready to go back in. I put it back in the bike again it fires right up. Oh yeah! I don't know why but I put the meter on the battery to test it... 10 volts and that was after about 2 minutes of idling in the garage. THAT ISN'T GOOD!

Long story short...

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I am not reading 50 volts AC on any of the wires. One wire is 47, one wire is 26, and the 3rd wire is 20. :crying:

I think when the motor comes out this time, I will be saving up some money and talking to Paul again, so this one might just get shoved into the corner of the garage for a while and wait.

Right now, I need to go for a ride and forget about this day! :head bang:

 

[mcgovern61]

Brian, once again I feel for you and know the distress you are going through. I knew that 1200 would cause you nothing but stress and heartache. I am willing to help you out and take it off your hands knowing how much pain it is causing you! :swoon:

:smilie_happy: :Egyptian:

(Just trying to help a brother out!) :hihihi:

 

[Omega Man]

Aww man that truly sucks.

~O~

 

[dan filipi]

Bummer Brian.
Nothing good about a bad stator. :rant:

 

[brianinpa]

mcgovern61 » Tue Jun 03, 2014 4:49 pm[/url]":vvpgziq6]
Brian, once again I feel for you and know the distress you are going through. I knew that 1200 would cause you nothing but stress and heartache. I am willing to help you out and take it off your hands knowing how much pain it is causing you! :swoon:

:smilie_happy: :Egyptian:

(Just trying to help a brother out!) :hihihi:

Thanks Gerry for that kind and sincere offer but regrettably I must decline. Even with all the distress and heartache that I am suffering now, I just can't help but imagine what the torque from that motor will be like with a C5 installed in it. So with that in mind, I will trudge through it and overcome. :music: :mrgreen:

 

[brianinpa]

Oh and looks like the wife won't get her garage back as soon as she thought she would... :hihihi:

 

[joedrum]

stator sheesh ...im with you brian

 

[brianinpa]

joedrum » Tue Jun 03, 2014 6:39 pm[/url]":3mxwpsuk]
stator sheesh ...im with you brian

Yeah Joe, sometimes you have to take the bad with the good.

This time I am changing everything with brand new parts...

 

[joedrum]

might need to dig a bit there got to be a reason it went so quick

 

[brianinpa]

Yeah there is more than just a stator at fault here. That is why I am thinking I am changing the regulator and anything in the system that appears to be suspect.

 

[Steve83]

Sorry to hear that, Brian - what a pisser! A 1200 Standard with a C5 should be sweet! Tell the wife to keep the rest of the house, but the garage is yours!! :smilie_happy:

 

[brianinpa]

Steve83 » Tue Jun 03, 2014 7:47 pm[/url]":zrkuchx2]
Sorry to hear that, Brian - what a pisser! A 1200 Standard with a C5 should be sweet! Tell the wife to keep the rest of the house, but the garage is yours!! :smilie_happy:

That is out agreement, but she has this thing about wanting to get into a cool car during the HOT summer months... who-da thunk it!

 

[backlander]

That's enough to make you shake your head and grab a couple of beers. Kick rocks. grab two more beers.

 

[brianinpa]

Almost Mike... almost. Rather than that, I threw a leg over the 1100 and rode away for a while. Then I grabbed a beer. :mrgreen:

 

[slabghost]

brianinpa » Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:09 pm[/url]":bmmvhsrn]

Steve83 » Tue Jun 03, 2014 7:47 pm[/url]":bmmvhsrn]
Sorry to hear that, Brian - what a pisser! A 1200 Standard with a C5 should be sweet! Tell the wife to keep the rest of the house, but the garage is yours!! :smilie_happy:

That is out agreement, but she has this thing about wanting to get into a cool car during the HOT summer months... who-da thunk it!

Bummer on the stator. If you have room for a carport to shade wifey's car they aren't too expensive.

 

[tom foreman]

sorry,to hear..my 1200 had a replacement,before I got it..thank god..

 

[brianinpa]

tom foreman » Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:24 pm[/url]":2m9f4dz2]
sorry,to hear..my 1200 had a replacement,before I got it..thank god..

Yeah, but I just changed it in December. :rant:

 

[tom foreman]

kool.my eyes.got issues,s..stage 3 glaucoma,and cataracts..sometime the little,things get pass ,me.. :hi: :rocks: :doh: :moped: :ahem: :thanks:

 

[brianinpa]

Its all good. Gives me a chance to do it again so that I don't forget how to do it.

 

[ekvh]

This is the scariest part of long road trips on a wing for me. An external alternator isn't too pretty looking, but being able to quickly replace it would be a big plus. I had a friend who had one dump on him in Sturgis ten or fifteen years ago. It cost him $1300 plus a motel for a few days because they didn't have one there. He sold the bike and bought a 1500. He was not mechanically minded.