Stator testing with pics if someone want to chime in with a pic of the location of these wires on the bike please post.... Also Wouldn't like replies on this thread unless i am incorrect... Please start a new thread if u are having problems and please post results of three test
lets call the three yellow wires A, B, and C Bike off A:. resistance (case to stator wires),
A_______ohm, B________ohm,C_________ohm
B: resistance (between the three poles)
AB______ ohm, BC________ohm, AC________ohm
C: AC
Bike running C: ac volts (between the three poles)
This is a great write up, and easy to understand. Not to knock you in any way, but:
Where you wrote "If there is resistense the stator is bad", actually we need infinite resistense between the stator and the ground. Meaning a lot of resistense between the ground and the windings. If there is continuity there is a problem.
thanks and here is a thread to walk them through the stator replacement...
Get your stator rewound for about 66 plus shipping this came recommended by Vulcan guru Lance... Tim Parrott Enterprises
Personal note .... i personally believe its better to spend the extra 15min and drop the motor completely out of the way would involve a few more steps... This is what i followed for my first sator replacement!
Also recommend a service manual (Clymers or kawasaki's )... Heres one Service Manual (large file may take a min to download)
That stator has been to hell and came back and went to hell, AGAIN!!!!
Didn't read the whole thing just saw how burnt the stator was. Have spent the last several hours polishing Vulcan89's frikin valve covers getting ready to install the motor. FINALLY!!!
Great job, DUDE!! :rockon:
Results between stator legs can be around 1.5 ohms but not to exceede 2.0 ohms, as long as they are the same and no leg is shorted to ground.
That stator has been to hell and came back and went to hell, AGAIN!!!!
Didn't read the whole thing just saw how burnt the stator was. Have spent the last several hours polishing Vulcan89's frikin valve covers getting ready to install the motor. FINALLY!!!
Great writeup, my stator failed the 1st and last test. My regulator was bad to, so I figured that was the only issue so I bought the shinengen part and upgraded... Still won't charge. I wish I would have figured this out before I did my oil change...
So I know this is an old thread, but this is the one I was using to test my stator so I figured I’d keep the info contained on here.
Here are two short questions I need answered:
1.) What happens physically to the stator that makes it stop working like it should??
2.) How does the stator reading as grounded to the engine mean it has failed? If you did the Tuxedo Mod isn’t the Stator grounded to the mod plate, and isn’t the mod plate grounded to the engine??
FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO READ THE LONG STORY: I did the tuxedo mod. Worked great for about 6 months of riding then it....uh...didn't work so great. Like a few others on here I had the bike fail to start suddenly, but after you scratch your head for a few minutes you go "man this feels an awful lot like when my stator went bad". Well I take the cover off and realized that yes indeed my stator was worn out. I don't know for how long but it had worn some grooves into the rotor, I was kind of in a hurry so I ordered a new stator and then I ordered the stator plate from GCExtreme because I figured the reason the failure occurred was because the holes I drilled in the plate I made 6 months ago were not quite perfect enough (even though I was pretty confident in my abilities) and the rotor was probably still fine.
Well I get the new plate and stator in and pray that my rotor will be fine…..this was not the case. Although it was charging the battery some it failed the first two tests on this list. Every leg said it had some resistance( see the confusion on my second question) and the VAC on each leg was around 27 at 3k RPM. That being said in my ignorance I still rode it for about 70 miles or so before it started to sputter like the battery was running low, and I got it back to the garage. I take out the stator and it now has grooves cut into one part of it and the wearing on the rotor has gotten so bad that the metal “laminate??” inside the rotor has started to peel at points. So obviously I am going to need a new rotor.
So this leads me back to my first question. What physically has to be wrong for a stator to fail? Is some of the deep wear around the outside edges where it rubbed the rotor means it is pretty much toast?? It is just a hard pill for me to swallow knowing this stator only has 70 some odd miles on it….
Electrically, the wire of the stator windings should be isolated from the core of the stator. The wire is coated with lacquer or some other insulator before being wound around the legs of the stator. If the insulation breaks down (overheating, excessive vibration, etc) then they can short to ground, and the charging system won't work because no voltage/current will be produced by the shorted windings.
At no time should the rotor contact the stator. Ever. If you're wearing troughs in the metal pieces, your stator plate is not aligned properly, or is too loose to hold the stator in place when running.
Its possible that a stator that the rotor has rubbed against will still be ok. The laminated metal plates that form the core are supposed to be electrically isolated from each other, but I don't think a little damage to the outside edge of the stator wouldn't be an 'immediate scrap' situation. Pictures would help. The windings are the key part. The rotor needs to be perfectly balanced, so damage there will need replacement.
Electrically, the wire of the stator windings should be isolated from the core of the stator. The wire is coated with lacquer or some other insulator before being wound around the legs of the stator. If the insulation breaks down (overheating, excessive vibration, etc) then they can short to ground, and the charging system won't work because no voltage/current will be produced by the shorted windings.
I think this means that this newish Stator is toasted already then. It is grounded to the Tuxedo Mod Plate. I tested this by removing the stator from the housing, bolting the mod plate backwards so the stator faces out not touching any part of the engine. connect my multimeter to one leg of the stator and one leg to the engine and I will still get some resistance. Does that sound right?
You should have infinite resistance between the lead and the plate when testing as you described.
FYI, a bad rectifier/regulator can cause a stator to overheat and blow out prematurely. Or so I'm told.
Yeah I had really low resistance readings. Like 1.5 ohms or something. While I am doing all this work I may as well check on the R/R anyway I guess. I don't think I will be able to test it properly till I get it all back together with a good stator & rotor though, right?
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