Electrical Troubleshooting help

[Barney]

You can do it without the tool, but you may damage something.  A cheap steering wheel puller with the correct bolts will do the job.  Your gasket is Threebond 1215 or similar.

You should have checked stator output before ordering parts.

Thanks for the tips! 

I figured I'd roll the dice since the rectifier seems like a descent upgrade - I like the Li battery, the bike starts way better with it than it did with the AGM batteries I've had in it before.  I would've had to pull the bike apart to this point to get to the stator connection anyway, and the rectifier wasn't particularly expensive either so all I really lost is a little time.  I ordered the new battery as well.  Hopefully good for another 20k miles at least 

regarding the gasket - I found this on the motowheels site: https://motowheels.com/i-8184836-exactfit-alternator-cover-gasket.html - I've never used liquid gasket before, is there an advantage to it over something like that?

[Howie]

I'm not sure about your Evo, but on the older bikes you would need to shim the sensor to make up for the thickness of the gasket.  Not a big deal. 

[koko64]

I would use threebond with that model and use an Exactfit gasket on the early models.

[Barney]

I would use threebond with that model and use an Exactfit gasket on the early models.

thanks for the tip my man.

[Qomomoko]

When you charged the shorai, it is a good idea to check the individual cells.
You can do that with a multimeter and the different pins of the pigtail will be for each cell.
Off the top of my head minimum is 3.3 V for each cell. They have a troubleshooting guide and such.
the cells can be "super balanced" by charging , then charging again 2 more times back to back.

I would bet and hope it is just the voltage regulator and hopefully nothing else got messed up.

Could not find the individual cell info.. but here are some links

https://shoraipower.com/charging

https://shoraipower.com/lfxcheck

https://shoraipower.com/battery-specifications

[Qomomoko]

Links of documents I found when my battery was acting up.

[koko64]

 

[Barney]

When you charged the shorai, it is a good idea to check the individual cells.
You can do that with a multimeter and the different pins of the pigtail will be for each cell.
Off the top of my head minimum is 3.3 V for each cell. They have a troubleshooting guide and such.
the cells can be "super balanced" by charging , then charging again 2 more times back to back.

I would bet and hope it is just the voltage regulator and hopefully nothing else got messed up.

Could not find the individual cell info.. but here are some links

https://shoraipower.com/charging

https://shoraipower.com/lfxcheck

https://shoraipower.com/battery-specifications

That's a top tip! Unfortunately I pulled the regulator out and replaced it with the mosfet RR I got from Rick's and there was no change in the way the bike was acting.  I haven't worked up the courage to pull case apart yet, but I've got a new stator in my hands and will probably be tackling that job one night this week.