{"id":80020,"date":"2009-04-11T11:38:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T02:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=80020"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:42","slug":"mysterious-malady-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20090411\/everyday-events\/mysterious-malady-com","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Malady.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_59030384_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>When you&#8217;re repairing motorcycles, how much trouble you witness on the job site determines how quickly you arrive at the answer.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how it works.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have enough experience to brag about big things, but here&#8217;s another interesting problem.<br \/>\nY, born in Nagasaki but with a Tohoku accent.<br \/>\nGSX750S\u2014he&#8217;s been riding it every day for commuting for over 15 years now.<br \/>\nBeat up, filthy, wash the thing already!<br \/>\nWell, it&#8217;s been showing this mysterious malady for quite a while now. (I have him work on it.)<br \/>\nThe charging voltage wasn&#8217;t coming up, so I had him check the generator and regulator.<br \/>\nGenerator OK, regulator NO.<br \/>\nOf course he&#8217;d replaced it, but he never measured the voltage after the replacement.<br \/>\nAfter that, the lights go out, the turn signals blink fast at low RPM and slow at high RPM (it goes away when you rev it up).<br \/>\nThe horn goes off by itself sometimes, fuses blow, and when you rev the engine hard it goes into mV mode, and so on and so forth.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know about that stuff! There&#8217;s too many problems!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a curse! A curse! Make a pyramid out of chopsticks and pile salt inside it\u2014that&#8217;ll fix it!<br \/>\nAnd a few days later\u2026<br \/>\nEven prayers to the gods didn&#8217;t work, and it showed up again yesterday too.<br \/>\nI had him keep working on it, but when he got back from his errand he was at his wit&#8217;s end, so\u2026<br \/>\nTo be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;When you&#8217;re repairing motorcycles, how much trouble you witness on the job site determines how quickly you arrive at the answer. That&#8217;s how it works. I don&#8217;t have enough experience to brag about big things, but here&#8217;s another interesting problem. Y, born in Nagasaki but with a Tohoku accent. GSX750S\u2014he&#8217;s been riding it every day for commuting for over 15 years now. Beat up, filthy, wash the thing already! Well, it&#8217;s been showing this mysterious malady for quite a while now. (I have him work on it.) The charging voltage wasn&#8217;t coming up, so I had him check the generator and regulator. Generator OK, regulator NO. Of course he&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80019,"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-80020","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\/80020","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=80020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}