Hot spot on stator cover 1vj
 

Hi guys I'm Andy and chatting from Ghana in Africa, I great you all, I have been following this website for quite a while now and I decided to join.
I'm the proud owner of a Yamaha xt600z 1vj series 1 which I bought in Italy in 2004 an I had it shipped to Ghana and have been using it ever since, so now I've notice a hot spot on the stator cover that propagates all over but after 10 min of riding it becomes Untouchable but the clutch cover though hot but I can manage to put my hand on it.
So I was wondering if anyone has come up with such a thing on their bikes :helpsmilie:
Thanks guys

indeed, plenty of xts here in italy...
is it charging all right? would suspect a short in one of the fields.
if there's also noise, maybe the rotor touching the stator?

nothing better than taking the cover off and having a peek.

Hi turboguzzi and in deed plenty of them in Italy just like mine a series 1 xtz
Well I took it apart and checked it with a multimeter and the values are not so consistent I had 5.2 ohms on one, 5.0 ohms on the second and 2.1 ohms on the third but the stator does not touch the magnet so I decided to rewind it and found one of the coils had a break in it,
Lucky I managed to rewind it (painfully ) and checked the values and all are good for now :clap: hoping to hit the road and rough stuff soon and now the Hotspot is gone but will keep an eye on the bike.