ridinnoshiftin
Well-Known Member
Well let me start off by offering a big thank you to the members of this forum. This forum is better than my Yamaha Service Manual any day. That being said, I was having charging issues and found out it was a bad stator. By the way, the resistance check looked fine but the A.C. output was low on one set of windings. It is an "88 that I picked up a month ago and trying to fix the sins from the previous owner. I have gotten a new stator and R/R but ran into some issues. As you know, Yamaha in its wisdom, used cheap soft phillips head screws with loctite for the stator and the trigger coil brackets. Even putting some heat to the stator screws I can not get them to budge. Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated. At least the bracket that holds the stator wire out of the way is a seperate piece from the trigger coils. That will be a nightmare if they have to get changed too. I don't know what the previous owner did or had done, but the screws will not break free. About the only thing I can think of is to have the screw heads milled off and try to get the remaining threaded portion out with vise grips and a bit of heat. The stator and cover act like a heat sink so it bleeds of the heat quickly. The wire retaining bracket may be worse as the screws will only stick out the thickness of the sheet metal bracket. They probably will have to be drilled out and retapped. I am afraid to put too much heat to the screws and also fear of ruining the trigger coils from the heat. Any suggestions I am open to hear. I do have new screws for the stator and they certainly aren't soft phillips heads :bang head:.