Genny
Since I didn’t have anything else to do while I wate for the new screen to come for the breather gear I decided to take apart the generator. Good ting I did. I should let you know I started off with a bench test of the generator. basically you jump the F terminal to the case. Then you connect a battery to the case (-) and to the A (+) thermal The generator should run like hmmm an electric motor. Guess what mine didn’t. It did run but is was slow and labored while under power. This made it an even better idea to take it apart. Once I got it cracked open the brushes were my first target and of course there were blown. One was half the size of the other and both were burnt and the whole thing smelled like and electrical fire.
My basic plan as to just disassemble the genny, clean it, grease it and install new brushes then rebench test. But to do so I would have to remove the drive gear. So I took it up to the local auto parts store to use a claw puller to get the gear off. This was a bust since the puller wouldn’t fit under the gear. however I did get pointed at a local genny shop called Holly Generator . So I took it up. When the genny guy came out to look at what I had he said “hey Harley generator”? At that point I knew I was in the right place. So hopefully tomorrow the guy with the tools to pull the gear off will be in to work. They will also give me a diagnostic on the commuter and
armature as well as a quote on any fixing that might be needed.