No More Rebuilt Alternators

[Red Diamond]

Just over a year and a few months ago I installed a rebuilt alternator on Red Diamond. Today, a short ride to meet the wife at church and out to Sunday dinner for about 3 hours, (left bike at church), only to return, start up Red Diamond, ride down the road a block or so and she starts to sputter and wimp. The tachometer quit and instrument lights out, pulled into another church parking lot and that was it. Luckily, the church had an outlet on the outside. My wife came by and we went home to get an extention cord and battery charger, charged it for about 30 minutes and rode it home.
     Put the volt/ohm meter on it and it read 11.3 volts, started it up and no change. Rev'd it up a little, shut it down and the voltage reading went up to 11.4 volts.
     Alternators rebuilt well should last longer, I bought a Tourer in Feb. of  2011 and did not put over 5k miles on Red Diamond. The next one that craps out will be a new one.

[Old Geezer Richard]

 Hey Red Diamond , where did you get the alternator from ???  Thanks the Geezer

[Red Diamond]

My reply is post is not to bash or badmouth anyone Geezer, just that I won't buy another rebuilt alternator, I don't even want an exchange. MARS

[Mr.BubblesVRCCDS0008]

 Eli I got the goldwing alt. from HDL after my rebuilt alt died on me in the hill country. I had to rent a truck to bring her home from austin cost me close to 300 dollars.
    I had the alt. over nighted for arround 245 total. I was running the next day. That was almost 50 thousand miles ago.

[Red Diamond]

I've seen where a lot have had good service from the GW alternator Mr. B. including yourself. Thanks, I'm going that route. Clocking it should be easy, EMSglobal seems to be the highest priced ones and there are many others reasonablly priced.