Nice, reliable, Honda.

Oh dear.

Just had a call from Platy and Statto who are at South Mimms with a dead
'Wing.

Apparently its charging circuit isn't.

Aunty Carole to the rescue...

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A Honda with a fucked charging system?

Who'd believe a thing like that?

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I've heard a battery of complaints regarding Honda electrics.

 

They usually cause a problem when you're going ohm.

 

New regulations are being brought in to rectify the problem.

 

Watt are you on about ?

 

You have neither the power nor the capacity to understand this?

Ali

 

Shocking

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It's been a long and draining day. Apologies.

 

It hertz.

 

Re: Subject -- "Choose any two!"

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To be fair for a moment, it is twenty fucking years old.
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OK, which bright spark started this?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Rope belched forth and ejected the following:

Volt the **** is that?

 

A load of people being negative about Hondas.

 

I must go through my jacket pockets and ditch the old CN recovery cards with
the old number.

Got home about 8:30 rather than 6-ish as anticipated. Still, I saved about
fifteen quid's worth of petrol.

 

Heh!

 

Haddock.

 

US spec GoldWing: /of course/ I was riding with the lights on. On the AA
man's meter, it was a steady 8v no matter whether I revved it or not.

I always ride fast, and the GL1200's alternator is specced to cope with
loads of lights, coffee-makers, discoes, heated clothing, sandwich
toasters...

"remove the swinging arm"? This is a GoldWing. Getting the engine out is
easier.

Well, that's where I'm going to start.

 

"5. Alternators are a common problem area on all of the early Wings,
the GL1200 being the worst offender in this department. The connector
block behind the left side cover in front of the battery suffers most
because it collects all the muck from the road and needs to be cleaned
and stuffed with dialectric grease regularly. The other connections
involving the charging system that need checking include the connector
just to the rear of the battery at the starter solenoid/main fuse
connection and the one under the dummy tank to the left of the air
filter which is the regulator/rectifier connector block. This one is
the least likely to give trouble as it is protected from the elements,
just as well too because the shelter assembly usually has to be
removed for access to the connector block. The problems are compounded
by owners who love to add lots of light bars and other power hungry
accessories without bothering to check if they exceed the alternators
capacity. The alternator itself can break down eventually on an old
bike and requires engine removal to replace it. Honda never really got
to grips with this problem (in spite of early recalls and uprating the
alternators) and when replacing the alternator rotor, buy an
aftermarket heavy duty item and dump the connector block and solder
the wires together. When doing a quick check on an alternator, run a
meter across the battery terminals with the engine running. Get
someone to bring the revs up to about 2000 revs and if the reading is
under 13 volts, prepare your self for a long weekend!"

hth


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|_\_____/_| ..83466../..22358.../..31893.
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|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11
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