
| I
replaced the rear tire and added new wheel bearings in the rear
wheel but forgot to take pictures of that. I have been having
some issues with the battery not charging and decided to fix
it once and for all.
I had already replaced the rectifier but that did not help so
now I just replaced the whole set with a new setup from Spyke
and will figure out what was wrong with the old set later.
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| After
removing the outer primary, clutch, belt, starter motor bolts
and finally the inner primary I had reached the alternator.
The rotor would not come off so I made a little puller. One
of the ears of the inner primary had cracked but that will have
to wait untill the winter. |

A
weak point in the original design was alwways the plug that
connects the stator to the rectifier. I was glad to see the
Spyke kit came with a much better connector.(picture below) |



After
installing the rotor, stator and rectifier from the Spyke kit
I noticed the rotor was not turning freely because it touched
the inner primary. I took it all apart again, (had to make a
new puller for the Spyke rotor...) and saw no other solution
than to machine the rotor or the inner primary |


With
"a little bit" of grinding on the inner primary the
rotor could now rotate freely and all was bolted back together.
When building this bike a few years ago I had made a special
tool to reach those 2 hard-to-reach bolts that connect the starter
to the inner primary, this came in handy now. Bike now charges
perfectly! |
Finally
I added a cover to the front wheel to cover up the hub, time
to ride again!
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