C90T Stator

[fotodude1]

I was riding Sunday and stopped by a friends house. When I got ready to leave the bike would not turn over. I hooked up a charger and cranked the bike up and went about three miles and it went dead. no battery. dead as a door nail. Took the bike home on a trailer and charged the battery slow. Took it Monday to the shop and they called and said the stator was shorted. $325.00 part $125.00 labor. Has anybody had this problem. 2005 c90t 11500+ miles I did install an lightbar about a month ago and shorted the fuse when I was hooking it up.

[DrBob]

This is not common, but it is not unheard of either. A buddy had the stator fail on his, and took it to an alternator shop where they rewound it for a much higher capacity. This allows him to run a lot more electrical accessories, like electric heated clothing.

[fotodude1]

Electric heated clothing!? Is that cool or what?!

[fotodude1]

But what about rain storms? Ouch!!!!!

[DrBob]

I have a complete set of heated clothing. You wire a plug to the bike, and plug the jacket into the bike. Gloves and pants plug into the jacket, and socks plug into the pants. A temperature controller clips to your belt. I am now immune to cold weather, and have traveled for 12+ hours in temps as low as 5 degrees and never had to turn the controller up all the way.

Rain is no problem, and it is washing machine safe. Great, great stuff.

[hammersfan]

Originally Posted by fotodude1

Electric heated clothing!? Is that cool or what?!

No , its warm

[Rockhead]

Originally Posted by DrBob

I have a complete set of heated clothing. You wire a plug to the bike, and plug the jacket into the bike. Gloves and pants plug into the jacket, and socks plug into the pants. A temperature controller clips to your belt. I am now immune to cold weather, and have traveled for 12+ hours in temps as low as 5 degrees and never had to turn the controller up all the way.

Rain is no problem, and it is washing machine safe. Great, great stuff.

That would come in handy for fooball games.

[DrBob]

Originally Posted by Rockhead

That would come in handy for fooball games.

Umm, it plugs into your bike. But I guess you could run a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyyyy long cord

[fotodude1]

and leave the bike running during the game

[Ext1jdh]

Or you could just watch from the warmth of your living room. Where the toes are warm and the beer is cold. And not 4 bucks an ounce.

[AZRyder]

Originally Posted by fotodude1

I was riding Sunday and stopped by a friends house. When I got ready to leave the bike would not turn over. I hooked up a charger and cranked the bike up and went about three miles and it went dead. no battery. dead as a door nail. Took the bike home on a trailer and charged the battery slow. Took it Monday to the shop and they called and said the stator was shorted. $325.00 part $125.00 labor. Has anybody had this problem. 2005 c90t 11500+ miles I did install an lightbar about a month ago and shorted the fuse when I was hooking it up.

Old thread but thought it was a real coincidence since mine failed the other day, 7 days out of warranty. 11,565 miles on it.

Almost like they're programmed to fail.

[DrBob]

Originally Posted by AZRyder

Old thread but thought it was a real coincidence since mine failed the other day, 7 days out of warranty. 11,565 miles on it.

Almost like they're programmed to fail.

Yup, as I said, not common, but certainly not unheard of. I've personally run into 4 or 5 C90s with stator problems. But I've also run into dozens without stator problems, including a good friend's that went 105,000 trouble-free miles, so I doubt it is a design flaw or 'designed failure'. The charging system on the C90/ Intruder 1500LC is barely adaquate for the job, so people who add aftermarket electrical accessories, or who ride mostly short trips around town, seem to have the most problems.
Too bad no one makes a high output stator for the C90/ 1500. I swapped my Harley from the stock 17.9 amp to a Spyke 38 amp stator for about $300, and electrical concerns are now a thing of the past.

[AZRyder]

Originally Posted by DrBob

Yup, as I said, not common, but certainly not unheard of. I've personally run into 4 or 5 C90s with stator problems. But I've also run into dozens without stator problems, including a good friend's that went 105,000 trouble-free miles, so I doubt it is a design flaw or 'designed failure'. The charging system on the C90/ Intruder 1500LC is barely adaquate for the job, so people who add aftermarket electrical accessories, or who ride mostly short trips around town, seem to have the most problems.
Too bad no one makes a high output stator for the C90/ 1500. I swapped my Harley from the stock 17.9 amp to a Spyke 38 amp stator for about $300, and electrical concerns are now a thing of the past.

Well if it's barely adequate, I'd say that was a design flaw since they didn't think ahead enough to put one in that would handle extra power needs. Or perhaps lack of foresight is a better term. I just thought it funny that it happened at almost the exact same mileage.

They don't make higher output aftermarket ones for these do they?

I ride around 20 miles or so each way to work every day so they're not exactly short trips, not really long I would say. I've just never had an electrical failure on a bike after such a short time. My old Kawasaki had 96,000 miles on it and the electrical system still worked great. Heck it still had the original control modules etc. on it when I sold it and it was 23 years old. Course everything else gave me fits lol, gaskets and such.

Luckily they're warrantying it, being that it was only a week out of warranty. Funny, I had just happened to be thinking about "now that it's out of warranty, just watch..." lol.

Also he fixed the gas tank as per the recall. I bought the bike 3 months after the recall and I never received a letter, so I had assumed the dealer I had bought it from would have taken care of it...sheesh I'm going to let them know about that...

[DrBob]

Even as far back in the 70s and 80s Suzukis had the rep of having barely adaquate or even poor charging systems, particularly stators. As long as it meets specs for the stock bike, they figure it is good enough. Personally, I like a little wiggle room, but Suzuki has alway competed against the other Japanese manufacturers on the basis of price, so they cut corners where they can to keep the MSRP down.