Ricky Stator Issue Revealed

[Snopczynski]

Ok, so one of the 4mm strokers ran like crap then quit running this last weekend. No SPARK! We took off the flywheel cover, there was the carnage. My cousins put a ricky timing plate in the bike with a stock stator and did not loctite any of the screws. One backed out of the pickup, it rubbed on the flywheel and flexed the plate. So it ruined the pickup and one of the ceramic covered grounds came loosa from the plate being jarred. Easy enough, we went to town and bought a Ricky Stator 200w unit and a Ricky Stator Flywheel. Came back put it on, and put in 1 75 w and 1 50w mr16 bulbs in his trail tech lights. Fired up the bike, told him to check the lights, they work. Went out to the hill that night, went to come back once it was dark and the lights dont work. Get to looking and find the wiring harness from the stator up to the connector on the main harness was bare and fried itself. Bike still ran though. We get it in, rip out the damaged stator harness and solder the old ones wire plugs and wires to the new ricky stator unit. Tore out the tors wiring , checked all the grounds and powers for shorts, everything was ok, and we added a ground to one of the coil mount bolts. We fired up the bike with all the lights hooked up and the regulator unplugged. The lights work ok at idle, and are putting out about 11.2v ac voltage (did not rev it up). Hooked up the regulator and it drops to 10.75v, the harness gets warm. Shut off the bike and put in the 35w bulbs, fire it back up with regulator connected. Now Harness gets warm, with meter hooked up we rev the bike to 6k rpm and voltage stays at 10.65v, harness really starts to get warm again. So we shut it off, go to town and buy a new YAMAHA factory regulator and put it on. Fire up bike, regulator holds 11.2v at idle. Rev the engine and voltage goes to 13.5v, Harness stays cool.

 

It had a bad regulator, once the Ricky stator was added the regulator was shunting 200watts of current to ground and melted the harness. With a stock 100w stator it never directed enough current to ground to melt the wiring. Once all of this went bad, my cousin looks at me and says "could the bad regulator have caused my lights to be really dim with the stock stator"?, I said you mean like dimmer than usual, he says "Yeah". So, he had the symptom the whole time and ignored it, caused me and himself about 3 hours of riding time, and $325!

 

Morale of the story, Use Loctite, chase down problems as they arise, and dont blame Ricky unless you find the problem.

Edited May 29, 2007 by Snopczynski

[Bansh-eman]

i thik the more common issue with RS is those screws stipping out when trying to set the gap.

[Snopczynski]

You dont have to take them out, you just bend the pickup tab a little to set the gap.

[moneybags]

When I ordered my RS stator not to long ago. The pickup was not screwed to the flywheel. Just hanging to the side with screws in a bag.

[Bansh-eman]

When I ordered my RS stator not to long ago. The pickup was not screwed to the flywheel. Just hanging to the side with screws in a bag.

lol thats rediculose

[dajogejr]

My stator itself was bad. I used Loctite on the pickup coil screws (and lock washers on the timing plate bolts)

My wiring harness is perfect, stripped of TORS and Light ends, sealed up and taped perfectly.

 

I don't even use a regulator (obviously with no lights)

It was dead as a doornail.

 

Now...they replaced it no questions asked, and turn around time from me shipping it to them...and having a new one back in my hands was 10 days...very, very fair IMO.

However, if this one goes south on me...I'll never buy another RS part...

[David Keith]

My stator itself was bad. I used Loctite on the pickup coil screws (and lock washers on the timing plate bolts)

My wiring harness is perfect, stripped of TORS and Light ends, sealed up and taped perfectly.

 

I don't even use a regulator (obviously with no lights)

It was dead as a doornail.

 

Now...they replaced it no questions asked, and turn around time from me shipping it to them...and having a new one back in my hands was 10 days...very, very fair IMO.

However, if this one goes south on me...I'll never buy another RS part...

 

When I had some electrical issues last year, you guys advised me to call Ricky Stator Inc. I ended up sending them the CDI unit, coils, pick up sensor, stator & flywheel. They tested it all for free & sent it back to me. They said it all was good & the problems were somewhere else, not in the components I sent them. They could have sold me a bunch of stuff, but they didn't... They are a good company. They have good policies. Can you show me any company that is perfect? Come on guys, are we expecting too much?

Edited May 30, 2007 by David Keith