Stator Life Expectancy

[PurpleDog]

Curious, is it somewhat normal to get about 17k miles out of stator? (give or take) This is my first S&S motor/bike; I'm curios what you guys are getting out of your stators. Should I replace every cpl years?
I've got the old one out after testing bad, fairly straight forward. Just sucked that I had just completed a Bandit install and testing it out...figures...

 

[superfly]

replaced mine at 13.5k

 

[jbotts]

16500 miles on my 06 k9, no problems so far.

 

[Raywood]

almost 80,000 miles on mine and 6 yrs old

 

[jbotts]

I'm not surprised to see a S&S big twin going strong after 80K, but totally amazed that the starter has lasted that long also. It takes a lot of juice AND elbow grease from the starter to turn these motors over.

 

[Raywood]

I'm not surprised to see a S&S big twin going strong after 80K, but totally amazed that the starter has lasted that long also. It takes a lot of juice AND elbow grease from the starter to turn these motors over.

Ha ha, mines lasted through 10 of them if I remember correctly!!!!

 

[PurpleDog]

almost 80,000 miles on mine and 6 yrs old

Thanks Ray; so my magnets were all broken down; makes me wonder why of course. Primary oil used, heat or just luck of the draw you think?

SuperFly I knew yours went out in Dayatona - didn't know how many miles, thanks. Were your magnets breaking downs (chunks) too?

On the starters....

 

[Brew]

22,000 miles on mine and still no issues yet, knock on wood...

 

[phatchopper300]

Replacing mine this weekend with 11,500 miles. I haven't gotten into it but thats the only thing left to replace to get the charging system to work again. New battery and VR!

 

[DRBarnhart]

I'd bet the lack of a compensating sprocket has a lot to do with rotors/stators breaking down...

My Fat Boy has never had any charging issues in it's 21 years of life! :2thumbs:

Dennis

 

[Jonny Black]

I have had to replace the stators in both of my Dogs '03 Pitbull @ 13,000 and now my '06 K9 which only has 5,000.:angry:

 

[blacktopper]

40,000 on my k9 and no problem yet

 

[tommyboy]

Maybe its the way you ride so slow the lugging of the motor wore it out.Lol

 

[stlmikie]

I replaced mine at about 15000. The new one was thicker and harder. It needed to be milled a bit to fit but I don't think this one will be broke.

 

[Magoo]

3K on mine replaced voltage reg that burned up but stator still going strong!

 

[PurpleDog]

Maybe its the way you ride so slow the lugging of the motor wore it out.Lol

:roll::roll::roll:

maybe that was it.....

 

[Mickeetwo]

17,000 miles......no problems so far

 

[Jonny Black]

Yeah, I don't think that's the case Tommyboy
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[Fibersnake]

23k Plus 6 years old and still going strong!

 

[glenguy]

Hi, I have only 9000miles on my 08 k-9 volt meter shows I am not charging anything into battery from stator, what is the correct way to check a stator as it's running ?. Glen