{"id":73113,"date":"2011-09-22T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T05:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=73113"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:33","slug":"bandit-400-ltd-mysterious-ailment-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20110922\/everyday-events\/bandit-400-ltd-mysterious-ailment-part-3","title":{"rendered":"Bandit 400 LTD: Mysterious Ailment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been sitting neglected for quite a while now. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62780924_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>So it runs, then the engine dies, runs, then the engine dies.<br \/>\nOr so I&#8217;m told.<br \/>\nThe prime suspects were the rusty tank and the fuel petcock area.<br \/>\nFuel petcock: OK<br \/>\nTank breather: OK. So that&#8217;s not it.<br \/>\nWhen I measured the charging voltage, it was 13V, then dropping to 12.9\u201312.1V and continuing to fall.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s either the rectifier and regulator or the stator coil.<br \/>\nSince it barely hits 13V without revving and is charging, maybe it was okay when running slowly and steadily.<br \/>\nNow that I know the direction to look, let me pin down the exact cause. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62780924_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The speedometer gear is broken.<br \/>\nResults<br \/>\n\u2193<br \/>\nStator coil: OK<br \/>\nRegulator rectifier: NG<br \/>\nBingo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been sitting neglected for quite a while now. &nbsp; &nbsp;So it runs, then the engine dies, runs, then the engine dies. Or so I&#8217;m told. The prime suspects were the rusty tank and the fuel petcock area. Fuel petcock: OK Tank breather: OK. So that&#8217;s not it. When I measured the charging voltage, it was 13V, then dropping to 12.9\u201312.1V and continuing to fall. It&#8217;s either the rectifier and regulator or the stator coil. Since it barely hits 13V without revving and is charging, maybe it was okay when running slowly and steadily. Now that I know the direction to look, let me pin down the exact cause. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-73113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}