New VFR Owner! Guess why I'm here...

My FIRST GUESS would be......................... something electrickal.:sour: having never read the above !

 

Fond memories of squeezing under the rear of my '57 MGA to rap that pump periodically with a a ruddy mallet. Finally my late-60's Alfas had all Bosch 'lektrix.

 

Saw this on a bumper sticker: Why do the Brits like warm beer? Because Lucas makes the refrigerators.

 

Alright, got all the goods, got everything installed.

Notes for people who find this thread and say "awesome, I'll do that, it'll fix my problem!"

It took like 10 minutes solid of banging and tugging on the cover to get it loose, it was.... WAY stuck on there, HARD CORE, what the hell, 9ft/lbs my ass!? Factory must have had a gorilla tighten everything down, that gasket had made the stator cover become one with the block better than welding it on there, GOOD GOD...

Speaking of that evil green gasket, its pretty much impossible to get off of either surface to any satisfactory extent, I spent very nearly 3 hours going at it like nuts and only got 'good enough' results (oh man I hope it doesn't leak...) in order to replace it (since it ripped and split in multiple places when it came apart). Also, my torque 3/8in wrench's minimum setting was higher than the torque spec'd (min was 120 in/lbs) for the bolts on the cover, those things don't take much do they...?

The only real terrible part of this was the gasket, it made an hour job into an all day bundle of terribleness and I'd far rather hand it off to someone else if I have to do it again.

Oil filters for these bikes are apparently difficult to source locally unless you go to Honda, I tried to find a quality filter without going to Honda and could only find a K&N in stock (meh element usually, way over priced), also, it had a Honda filter on it and had been serviced at the dealer about 500 miles ago, I'm convinced that the strongest men alive do oil changes, specifically, spin on the oil filters!

So, stator is changed, R/R is changed, dielectric grease on both connections, new gasket, getting 14.6~ at idle and its pretty steady up to 5k, I see no problems at the moment...?

Here's what I had:

OLD AND BUSTED...



New fancy pants MOSFET!



Old stator looks... burned up?



TWO HOURS into gasket removal... sweet JESUS...



Gasket residue that was /so fun/ to remove from the block as well...

 

this is what i use to remove all glued on gaskets, makes it a 30 second job

http://3mcollision.com/how-to/mecha...e-roloc-bristle-disc-07524-2-inch-coarse.html

 

I am old fashioned, razor blades and good gasket scrapers, its quality time with your machinery :loco: those pads are titz though. What the fuk is a "ruddy-mallot?" Is'nt that sort of harley-brit-buffalo speak? :whistle: :lmao:

 

stator cover has the magnet associated with it, so besides the gasket being baked on, you have the magnet holding it, thats where a "soft-bop - rubby-mallot" could come into play. Have fun banging on your stuff.

 

Lack of air tools and such to spin it coupled with the confined space around the rotor made me ditch the idea of getting exactly that.

I'm not sure if I was just overly cautious, but I wrapped the rotor with a towel and stuffed it in around it as best as I could every time I went at removing the gasket material left on the block, didn't want anything getting suspended in the oil after I was done... wasn't sure if marring the rotor would cause a problem either?

Was mostly surprised at how much effort and time it took since its really such a straight forward task... but that gasket was tenacious!! Wow... seriously, anyone thinking of doing this, the job is super dumb simple, but the gasket is a PITA.

Also, at least on my bike, the plug could not be pulled straight through as it was wrapped once around the loom and there was a big of plastic for the rear splash guard under the seat that the wired needed to be 'moved' under so they were not trapped. Hard to figure that out the first time since you can't see any of it, just take a GOOD look and tug it back and forth a few times, feel around, you'll get it