bad stator plug

[wanna ride]

Posting this for my buddy, hes not all that up on computers.
My buddies bike is a 87 FXRC stock. We took a day trip for Harley Demo rides and on way home his bike died and battery dead. So long story short, got his bike home and found out his yr of bike has a weird crappy setup for plugging regulator into stator, plugs in at the case. On his plug in the rubber went all gummy and soft, the plug in prongs were full of rubber. Once we cleaned of the regulator prongs ( one had a a real thin coat of rubber ) and pulled out the stator prongs so they were assessible and plugged regulator back in the bike ran ok( after giving a charge ) So couple questions, anyone came across this happening on the older fxr's, we're wandering if the change over to synthetic oil could have eaten the rubber, he put syn in the primary this yr.
Also we're thinking this bike has had the same electronics since new and are wandering if there's such a thing as a electronics kit that includes all electronics like reg., stator electronic egnition?
Also is it possible to put the higher amp stators on this older bike?

[FN LOCO]

The same thing happened to my 93. I don't think the synthetic oil had anything to do with it as I have run syn, 80/90 as well as ATF and all with the same outcome. The plugs generally last only 5-7 years until the "GUM" sets in, so if your buddy made it 20+ years he's money ahead.
I've had pretty good luck with the J&P Cycles stator and it's relatively cheap $65.00. I would also recommend the stator bolt kit or liberally blue loctite the old ones. As for me I always go for new bolts with the "PatchLoc" too many movin parts to be havin your bolts fall out in there. While your at it, pick up a new plug hold down, it's a plastic hunk of crap with a couple of tiny screws, yes blue loctite these as well.
You can buy a larger amp "Kit" for that bike that comes with a new regulator, rotor and stator, but you can't just change the stator to a larger amp.
As far as ignition goes, it all depends on what you want and how deep your pockets are. Go on line or get a J&P catalog or other aftermarket catalog and see what tickles your fancy. There's a lot of stuff out there even for our outcast FXR's
Hope this helps.

[wanna ride]

Originally Posted by FN LOCO

The same thing happened to my 93. I don't think the synthetic oil had anything to do with it as I have run syn, 80/90 as well as ATF and all with the same outcome. The plugs generally last only 5-7 years until the "GUM" sets in, so if your buddy made it 20+ years he's money ahead.
I've had pretty good luck with the J&P Cycles stator and it's relatively cheap $65.00. I would also recommend the stator bolt kit or liberally blue loctite the old ones. As for me I always go for new bolts with the "PatchLoc" too many movin parts to be havin your bolts fall out in there. While your at it, pick up a new plug hold down, it's a plastic hunk of crap with a couple of tiny screws, yes blue loctite these as well.
You can buy a larger amp "Kit" for that bike that comes with a new regulator, rotor and stator, but you can't just change the stator to a larger amp.
As far as ignition goes, it all depends on what you want and how deep your pockets are. Go on line or get a J&P catalog or other aftermarket catalog and see what tickles your fancy. There's a lot of stuff out there even for our outcast FXR's
Hope this helps.

Sure does help.

[Pilgrim1]

You can avoid the problem this way, although as someone said, 20 years is good service out of a plug.

When you install the stator, cut the rubber plug off of it; I mean the one that slips into the primary case from the inside.

Lead the two wires out through the hole in the primary. Solder on a couple of extensions of you need to, but if so, do a GOOD, professional job. This is a long-term installation, and you don't want sloppy soldering to interfere with the passage of electrons.

Mount a Deutsch female plug on the end of those two wires from the stator.

Shoot the hole in the case full of silicone sealant - clean it first with acetone. It must be very clean, so's not to leak. You want a good seal from the silicone. If you ever need to, the stuff can be pushed out from one direction or the other.

Cut the plug off the voltage regulator and put the male half of the Deutsch plug on it.

Plug them together, and you're good to go.

Pilgrim