A few pictures from todays ride. Sad. Bad ice.

Hi guys!

Removed the stator today:
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Can this have something to do with the problems?. Doesn`t look pretty.. bare wires.. .

I tried touching the bare wires while I measured between the brown/red in the triangle connector and the black in the rectangle connector, which I`ve been told is out of spec, and the numbers on the multimeter started jumping up & down, so I don`t think it`s a coincidence (spelling?) that a guy told me to measure between those wires, and the results were out of spec, and now I see how the stator looks.. .

Hmmm
 
kimoaj said:
Can this have something to do with the problems?. Doesn`t look pretty.. bare wires.. . Hmmm
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YES!!!!!!! stator from 98/99 SRX will work. I have never seen one that bad before
 
Thanks for the reply tomseal6, I`m really glad to finally have found the problem:).
So now I need a new stator, anyone have one for sale?.
 
post a want ad in the classifieds for a stator.

Be sure to check all the wiring and connections. make sure something is not shorting out causing your stator to melt down

right now with all that stuff off the right side of belly pan would be good time to check the wiring harness under the motor that always seems to go bad on these sleds.
 
Hi tomseal6:). Thanks for the tips!.
I`ve bought a stator from Jwiedmayer so that`s allready sorted, great guy!.

I`ve been thinking about the same as you, maybe I actually haven`t found the source of the problem, is it likely that something is shorting out and therefor the stator melts down?. Or could it have something to do water inside the coils?. (hehe).

Like I`ve said earlier, the sled did run CRAPPY when I connected the harness that goes up to the hood (headlight etc). First I thought that something was wrong in the stator so it couldn`t produce enough power to both lights and igniton, so when I connected the harness, it stole the power from the ignition, but I guess that`s unlikely. (I`m not good on electrics so I might draw some dumb conclusions).
I figure there is a short somewhere and this short caused the stator to melt down?.
The question is if the short (if there is one) is related to the water-diving or if it for some reason just happened?.

On Wednesday in the week after the dive, I rode the sled and it was perfect. When I parked it I removed the hood and took it inside to dry the headlight & rpm gauge better. When I put it back on, on Thursday, I made sure that the harness was put back exactly where it was before, but you never know. Maybe the short already had started to develop and when I moved the harness back and forth, and then it got worse. Who knows.. .

I`ll have to dig seriously into it.. .
Will pull the harness under the motor, will be interesting.

Thanks for all the replies guys, wouldn`t have found this out if it hadn`t been for you guys.
 
I would still bid on one of those auctions and pick up an extra stator for cheap.

Once it happens, You never can tell if it will again. Thus for sure getting another one would prevent more down time and you could isolate the problem more like you mentioned possibly about the coils.
 
Kimoaj,


First let me congratulate you on a great thread. You're doing top notch mechanics work and your documenting it all for us to read and learn from. EXCELLENT.

ALways a good thing to inspect your wiring harness for possible shorts which might have caused your stator to overheat. Good advice from TomSeal.

As an electrical engineer I think it's quite likely that the little swin was the cause of the stator problem. As parts age, especially when they are subject to hot and cold cylces, the expansion and contraction can cause small fractures in the sealant used to seal the stator coils. Now you didn't just introduce a little moisture, you gave it a real good bath which would have forces water into those fractures and caused an internal short in the stator. Once the ice in the stator had melted it would have caused the short and melted down the wires (which you have now discovered).

Hope you get the new stator delivered soon because I can't wait to see you successfully get the MM running. Check those other harnesses and you might want to reconsider re-routing the one under the motor up and over the recoil stater so it's in a better environment. Just make sure you protect it from the hot exhaust.

Cheers,

Exciterfan
 
Hi ! Thanks for all the replies!

Exciterfan: Thanks for the nice reply, I hope you are right, if the water made the stator fail then it makes things easier to figure out, but I will check all the harness just to be sure, will probably do it on Tuesday. I think I will get the stator at the end of this week.
All the screws that held the stator were ruined when I removed them so I ordered new ones from Rich (had to order some other parts so I thought, why not just order original screws).

Can`t wait to test the new stator, will keep you posted !!.
 
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