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Post by macman1999 on Jun 8, 2010 20:23:44 GMT -5
I have been looking for information concerning getting to the voltage regulator on a 2005 Vento Zip r3i. I know that it is on the frame neck below the handlebars behind the front trunk or glove box. I am just a little leery about how to take the panel off in order to get to it. If anyone here has taken off the panel where this fits I would greatly appreciate any helpful tips that you may have..
I would assume that you would start at the floorboard and work your way up but since all the plastic snaps are hidden I just dont want to break anything while taking it off...
Thanks guys
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Post by drawkward on Jun 8, 2010 21:16:52 GMT -5
Hm. What I do is just remove the front panel. The part that holds the headlight assembly. From what it looks like, that's all you should have to do as well. Should be some screws and a bolt holding it together. I don't have a Zip so I can't really take pictures to show you. My advice - Try it. Just don't force anything. The plastic on these scooters is quite brittle. Check and double check that you have gotten all the screws (and maybe one bolt on the front) that you can see. Once you get the plastic panel unfastened, don't forget that the headlight is still attached, you need to unconnect the wire harness from the headlight. It might seem daunting now, and it was to me the first time. Now I can't count how many times I've removed that panel, and it probably only takes me 5 minutes to do it every time now.
Good luck.
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Post by macman1999 on Jun 9, 2010 9:03:47 GMT -5
thanks for that bit of wisdom, Ill give it a try today since I want to see the part before I order one and test it.
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Post by drawkward on Jun 9, 2010 11:05:10 GMT -5
...I want to see the part before I order one and test it. Good idea. There are two different kind of connectors. A square one and a rectangular one. You can make either one work, but it's easier to get the one that fits. |
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Post by macman1999 on Jun 10, 2010 5:13:43 GMT -5
You were right, it was easy when being patient but once I got it off the rectifier/regulator wasn't there. I continued to disassemble the body parts until I found it and it was under the bottom frame near the spark plug. So I continued to take the body appart and found a loose wire as well, don't know what it went to but I fixed it and that may have actually fixed my problem.... once I got the body back together I only had 2 screws left over and could only surmise that they were left over from deep in the front area....
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Post by Goosey on Jun 10, 2010 22:26:15 GMT -5
LOL, hate those "extra" screws. Last time I ended up the last 6 screws being too large, bought 6 more smaller screws so I could finnish assembling. Take a break and look it over another day, it'll brobably come to ya where they go. So did you connect the loose wire to the frame as a ground then? Since you didn't find anything it went to?
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Post by macman1999 on Jun 12, 2010 14:09:10 GMT -5
I reattached it to the harness that it came out of... and I found where the last two screws came from, I had forgotten to attach the two screws on the front of the seat. Replaced the rectifier/regulator and still no change, I guess its time to move on to either the magneto or the stator... any guess from you guys which one it most likely is?  |
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Post by Goosey on Jun 12, 2010 14:28:11 GMT -5
I missed what was going on. What is the problem you are trying to track down?
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Post by 2strokd on Jun 12, 2010 14:29:38 GMT -5
Whats wrong? Maybe i missed something?
Is it not charging?
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Post by macman1999 on Jun 12, 2010 15:02:51 GMT -5
Correct, it seems to not be charging correctly. The battery draws down quickly and the battery checks out fine and is new as well. I know that there is some power being generated by the generator (magneto/stator combo) since the lights and guages work when the bike is running and the gas guage is most accurate when the bike is running about 30 to 40 mph.
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Post by drawkward on Jun 15, 2010 21:48:30 GMT -5
Are you sure it was the voltage regulator you found down there that you were hooking back up? I don't know about the Zips, but all I have is the ignition coil and battery under the floorboards. If it's not blowing bulbs I wouldn't think it would be the regulator... Unless maybe regulators fail the other way and rob the system of power in some circumstances?
What else could it be? I faulty ground somewhere? An exposed positive wire somewhere in the harness hogging power? A dirty stator/flywheel? I don't know man... Haven't dealt with anything like that. Maybe the battery is just dying?
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Post by Goosey on Jun 17, 2010 0:44:52 GMT -5
I'd be looking for a loose ground first, bad connections,and then the stator. Not that I am all stator on the brain this weak, but it is the charging system. I think the regulator would let through too much voltage, like you say, blowing the bulbs, if it were bad.
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Post by macman1999 on Jun 18, 2010 22:17:42 GMT -5
Well, what I have done is work backwards, the voltage regulator separates the ac and dc and sends it to the proper place, since ac works at an ok level I have to assume its dc and the regulator is involved..
I actually changed out the stator 2 days ago and the bike wouldn't start, then the magneto, etc.... then I put it back to original and then it still wouldn't start.. I shot a quick start of starting fluid and it fired right up an has since then.. so now I will have to go through the process again to narrow down the part that is draining the battery. I would imagine it's the stator and I hope to have this answered by monday.
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