Tiger 800 Quick Stator Check

Well following on from a reoccurrence of a mystery engine noise, kind of whirring in time with engine revs, and a good hunt of the internet and Youtube the majority of people who had a similar noise fixed it by tightening the Allen bolts that hold the stator to the casing. So whilst in Wales my gasket arrived and I decided to investigamate.
Took about 20 mins to get the cover off, rubber mallet, wooden wedges etc, it’s a strong magnet!
Then about 2.5 hours to clean the old gasket off!
Oh yes the bolts were tight!! So that wasn’t the problem. Pisser!!

 

Ok an update if anyone is looking to do this. I was on my way down the A32 to see my father, Tracey was running really sweet, got low on fuel so decided to stop and fill up before I reached my dads rather than fuel up after, as I came back from paying I noticed a puddle of oil under my bike, thoughts that it might have been there before I arrived we’re quashed by the steady dripping from my engine, closer inspection showed it spread down the swinging arm, all over the engine up the panniers etc. I was lucky I’d stopped when I did, I must have been very close to running out of oil and bloody lucky none had got onto my rear tyre. The culprit? This little f#%ker

Seemingly renowned for not seating properly on reassembly, I thought I’d taken care with it, obviously not enough as although I had had a short run on Monday after working on her and another short run on Tuesday I hadn’t really opened her up. Todays blast down the A3 and onto the A32 must have dislodged the rubber seal and eventually it popped out, resulting in the oil spray and even worse the cable for the stator chafing on the edge of the casing and exposing the wire!!
Bollox!!

 

Rac. Having told them it wasn’t repairable they still had to send someone out to confirm it, he insisted that he had to attempt it although I told him the gasket would get buggered and all the oil over the back was potentially dangerous. Anyway under my close supervision, the cover was removed and the gasket got buggered and he said he couldn’t repair it and would have to get a recovery van out got home about 5:00pm

 

Could over filling with oil blow that rubber out?

 

Yup battery’s charging fine

 

Not as yet. Been too busy with w*rk. Having looked at a load of second hand stators loads seem discoloured like mine so am going to do some in situ voltage checks then check the reg/rec and go from there

 

Not as yet. Been too busy with w*rk. Having looked at a load of second hand stators loads seem discoloured like mine so am going to do some in situ voltage checks then check the reg/rec and go from there

 

Stators ok, I want to try disconnecting the reg/Rec to see if the noise stops, although it’s less prominent if there at all, as, seemingly this going can cause the stator to work harder and produce this noise.
All pretty hit or miss but I will find some time to do it.