Hey Eddie I have a 83 hawk and ended up getting the stator rewound because it was putting out voltage but not enough. Hopefully you have a muitimeter. On the left side, remove the cover and take apart the connector from the alternator. Set your mutimeter to OHM setting, check each of the three yellow wires with one probe on the yellow, the other a good ground (bike is not running, key is off) The meter reading should not change from the number ONE that first comes on at the ohm's setting before you test the wire. If it does, or goes to zero, then you have a short in the alternator in that one section. No short, then carry on with the multimeter and the ohm's setting to check between two yellow wires, switch around so all 3 wires are checked for ohms against another yellow wire. Readings should be 0.4 to 0.6 ohms. If not then your stator is getting weak (mine was) and will need replaced. Lastly measure ohms between black and white stator wires. It should read 4 to 6 ohms. If not, well you guessed it, your stator is bad.
Let us know if the alternator checks out and we'll go deeper into this. FYI make sure your battery is actually able to hold a full charge and the connections are clean and tight. Your fully charged (with a portable charger) battery should be 12.6 volts after sitting several hours when charging is finished. I assume you have checked the fluid level in the battery and if needed it's been topped up with distilled water. Cheers, Lar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
