I've been reading your thread with interest recently also. My reg/rec died the other day (about two weeks ago now). I replaced it, took the bike for a spin, attempting to make the engine drain the battery at high RPM, nothing, brilliant, all sorted I thought.
The next morning, started her up for work and she was running like a pig. Horrible tractor noises.
So having been reading this thread, I was panicking that the new reg/rec was either faulty or exposed an underlying fault in another electrical component, and something expensive had popped.
So I followed your thread.
After my two day shifts, I get a long night off, which I used to change my sparkplugs. Nothing obvious on the plugs, but some of the HT leads needed tidying up. It seemed to run better. So I thought I'd sorted it.
Going to work for my second night shift it was running really bad, even worse than before. So I was panicking even more thinking the fault was a coil pack, or worse. So my first full day off, I took the tank off, airbox out, pulled the coils out and tested them. As I was testing the second coil pack, I happened to glance at the front of the throttle bodies and saw this:
All that for the sake of £0.50p worth extra rubber hose at the factory. The throttle body test gauge lines were pulled so tight, they'd cut through at the pipe in to the body.
So your thread has helped someone. Even if my problem wasn't related in the end, your thread got me further in to the bike than I've been before, and taught me about testing the ignition system.
Thank-you.
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