QUOTE (midnightride42 @ Jul 20 2009, 02:14 PM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=130849

So my questions are:

1) maybe just a old and bad battery?
2) Does the rectifier send a charge to the battery?
3) Am I looking at the stator going or being bad?

Thanks,

Start it up take your voltmeter and check the voltage on your battery while rev-ving it up some and if it goes up then you have a bad/weak battery and if it stays at the low voltage then your gonna have to replace your rectifire that would be the cheap way to start with then if that doesn't do it then your gonna have to replace the stator,
Lets just hope its your battery

On the bikes I have worked on that wasn't charging I would always replace the " rectifire " frist before replacing the stator

 

QUOTE (Duke70 @ Jul 20 2009, 02:25 PM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=130853

Start it up take your voltmeter and check the voltage on your battery while rev-ving it up some and if it goes up then you have a bad/weak battery and if it stays at the low voltage then your gonna have to replace your rectifire that would be the cheap way to start with then if that doesn't do it then your gonna have to replace the stator,
Lets just hope its your battery

On the bikes I have worked on that wasn't charging I would always replace the " rectifire " frist before replacing the stator

Thanks for the reply...I'll check it out when I get home.

I sure hope it's just the battery.....I'd hate to get stuck out in the trails.

What exactly does the rectifire do?

 

QUOTE (midnightride42 @ Jul 20 2009, 03:26 PM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=130855

Thanks for the reply...I'll check it out when I get home.

I sure hope it's just the battery.....I'd hate to get stuck out in the trails.

What exactly does the rectifire do?

Your :welcome

The rectifire is part of the charging system, the stator is the main feed of the voltage and the rectifire is inline after that mounted on the frame to maintain the voltage coming from the stator so it doesn't over charge the battery, now I have run into the rectifire going the other way and putting to much voltage to the battery and that you do not want, it doesn't happen to often but it does

 

Well I decided to fully charge the battery. After a few hours of charging it, it holds a 13.1-3 charge.
Starts right up too.....

If I rev it in neutral, like you mentioned above, the voltage stays the same. It doesn't drop or increase.

I guess I'll start looking into a rectifire.

On the same note, why would a bad battery keep the bike from starting?
I should be able to pull start the quad right?

having the low voltage from the battery kept the quad from starting.....

Thoughts?

 

I agree with you Duke70 about the rectifier. I have a cousin that drives a 01 Rancher and it was having problems and a guy told him it was the stator so he changed it and it didnt change a thing he then put in a rectifier, problem solved. Changing the stator is a PITA. The rectifier was easy.

 

QUOTE (midnightride42 @ Jul 22 2009, 07:03 AM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=130995

Well I decided to fully charge the battery. After a few hours of charging it, it holds a 13.1-3 charge.
Starts right up too.....

If I rev it in neutral, like you mentioned above, the voltage stays the same. It doesn't drop or increase.

I guess I'll start looking into a rectifire.

On the same note, why would a bad battery keep the bike from starting?
I should be able to pull start the quad right?

having the low voltage from the battery kept the quad from starting.....

Thoughts?

IF YOUR BATTERY IS LOW AND RECTIFIER OR IS STATOR IS BAD IT WILL NOT FIRE BECAUSE YOU STILL HAVE TO HAVE ADEQUATE VOLTAGE FOR IT TO START SO BASICALLY WITH PULL ROPE IT IS STILL GOING TO HAVE LOW VOLTAGE IF NOTHING IS PUTTING OUT, BUT TRY RECTIFIER FIRST

 

Sounds silly, but get a new plug as well. Always stay with NGK. Had those symptoms before and it was a bad plug - brand new right off the shelf...

Replaced it with a new one and all problems solved.

 

Yea I did that too...I got a new plug right away. NGK that is. Didn't work so I tried cleaning the old one off and still had the same issues.

I'm going to go ahead and order the rectifire and probably get a new battery at the same time. Atleast at that point I'll know the only thing left is the Stator at that point.