Neo Xian Wu

Good looking out man. Much appreciated. I'd return the favor, but I have to spread some more rep first.

paperassgasket

bought a couple gl-1000's a 75 and 76

the 75 runs but the '76 needs a lot of love

pm me if you're seriously interested, i'll try and get some pics and shit soon.

djgrom

Alright so I have a problem where my motorcycle battery is not keeping a charge, replaced battery to new battery lasts about a week and dies. This means battery is not being charged. instead of doing a bunch of testing I feel like just replacing strator and voltage rectifier, good or bad idea? Are there are parts I should also replace or look at quick?

Bike is EX500 year 91 It has been running fine for long time besides incidents that were mostly my fault.

paperassgasket

testing the alternator shouldn't be that hard really. but i think that the problem is fairly obvious if the battery keeps getting drained.

is your regulator/rectifier a single unit?
if so then that sucks b/c they're more expensive. but you can save yourself the testing and just buy the single reg/rec. it's never a bad idea to have a spare since they do go bad.

edit: how to test your stator.

this also might help:
http://www.kawasakimotorcycle.org/fo...r-problem.html

djgrom

how about fuck you charlie, I said I don't feel like testing things because I don't have time, lets just replace everything at once via my friends ebay and paypal.

paperassgasket

sounds good to me. by "replace everything" you mean buy a new bike correct?

djgrom

pretty much but no I just ordered a strator and a rectifier off ebay, I am hoping the model year on the rectifier doesn't matter. I doubt it.

Neo Xian Wu

Sounds like the rectifier. That's what happened to me.

djgrom

it will be one or the other!

paperassgasket

what if it's the rectifier?