WaiexN143NM wrote:Hi glenn,
Glad u got rosie home. Did u stop by jab usa, or order and install a new regulator too ? How did the regulator look? And whats the trick to removing the stator on an engine thats on an airframe?
WaiexN143NM
Michael
I did stop by JabUSA on the way up. There was a lady in the warehouse who said I was the first person she ever saw who stopped in to buy a part. I got a new regulator from them which is for a Kubota tractor. It was still in the Kubota wrapper with the Japanese part number on it in spite of Jabiru calling out a specific Jab part number in all the manuals. Paid twice as much as I would've from a Kubota dealer but I had the thing in my hands and considered myself lucky. The old regulator looked fine but I replaced it anyway thinking that some of my symptoms could be regulator related.
The hardest part about pulling the stator was the top bolt holding the mount in place. I you look at the above picture, you can see a plug wire in the background. It's there because I had to pull the right ignition module off with the mount, pull the bolt 1/4 way out, and rotate the whole thing towards the copilot side to get the bolt to clear the firewall under the fuel fill. It was the only way I could see to get the thing out without removing the engine. When I reinstalled it, I simply put the nut on the firewall side and slid that bolt in through the front. Aside from disconnection the mag wires, the rest remained intact.
The initial test was scary. I was showing 16.8 volts when I put the power to it. Turns out the EFIS got screwed up and was reading high but the voltage was correct as measured. The EFIS was adjusted and it behaved as it should. Then I made the mad weather dash home. Needed those lights as I touched down back in Griffin just about dusk.