rutman

Any one have any experience with "Diamond Cargo" brand. Looking at a 6x12 enclosed V-nose.

Are you talking Kawasaki synthetic or regular oil?

Looking forward to your review of this.

Cool. Can't wait to hear about the install and your impressions of it. I had a Woody's fairing on my VTX and loved having tunes. Been Jonesing for one for my rstd.

I bought a r/r from Caltric and so far so good.

What brand fairing is that?. Is it solid with no squeaks?

I have a napa legend battery as well. Very satisfied so far.

And thank you for your advice.

Yea Djh3, I hope this problem is over. I've lost 2-3 weeks riding because of this. With my luck I thought it would end up being the stator. Really hope this R/R and the napa battery solved all this charging issue.

THE SAGA CONTINUES. Took my 2 week old gel battery back to Advance. They load tested it and the battery was bad. Got my refund and went to NAPA and bought a NAPA legend premium gel battery. Put it in and rode about 100 miles. Got home and wouldn't crank. @#&%%^&*^%$. Bought a $32 rectifier on ebay and installed this evening. At rest the battery is 13.0 Idling the battery is 13.6 Increasing rpm's and the voltage goes to 14.2 Rode about 30 miles, got home and the readings are about the same. The R/R was a little smaller than stock but bolted right up. You guys think I'm good now or is my excitement premature?

I was getting ready to test my R/R. Unbolted it from the frame and let it hang. Cranked bike and idled it up to check battery voltage before unplugging R/R to test. Voltage was 13.6 which I read was good. Only ran bike for a couple mins, then shut off. Unplugged R/R. Plug looked very good but the R/R was so hot I could barely hold it. Is this normal for the R/R to be so hot with the bike only running a couple mins?

When I checked it with the bike idled up, the voltage was 12.5?

Are you saying the culprit is this new gel battery that I just put in a couple weeks ago?

Voltage with bike parked, 12.9 Voltage with bike at slightly above idle, 12.5 Any advice.

Will check battery voltage when I get home What should the voltage be? Should the bike be running when checking?. Can the regulator cause this? I dont even know what the regulator does or where it's at.

Another update. Went on first long ride since Installing battery. Stopped to fill up close to the house. Hit the start switch and all I got was buzzing. Done this 4-5 times then the bike started. Got home and same thing. Buzzing and would not start. Put battery on charger for awhile and it fired right up. Seems like during the course of riding; something is draining the battery. Really need some help on this one.

There's 2 good forum's for the VTX. VTXOA and VTXCAFE. .

UPDATE. Pulled the battery, got out the charger, hooked it up but it wouldn't hold a charge. I bought a gel battery at Advance. 310 cca $102 after my $10 discount. Put it in last night and bike cranks right up. Rainy weather is here in Spartanburg for the weekend so probably wont get to put on some miles till next week. Hope this takes care of the problem. Thanks for the advice and want to give a shoutout to Eck for his help.

06 rstd. This happened today all of a sudden with no warning. Coasting down my driveway coming in from my ride today, all of a sudden it seemed to start to lose power. engine started sputtering, kept feathering the throttle but it finally quit. Turning on the key I have power. When I hit the start switch I get a bzzt. sound if that makes since but the engine does not turn over. No warning signs of any kind before this happened. I need help.

Well said.

Ok. Here goes. 06 rstd. On decel I have a bad case of blub-blub-blub from the exhaust. No backfire, just blub-blub-blub. It did this with the stockers and also after I put on the RK's. Just louder. I thought it might be to lean so I pulled the plugs and they were "white lilly white". I think the optimum color should be light brown or tan. I want to adjust the pilot screws out a little to richen it up, hoping this helps. Now, down on my hands and knees trying to find the pilot screws, I see that mine still have caps on them. How in the heck can this be done? Those caps look impossible to get to, much less adjusting the screws. Help.

A member here, djh3, sells a plug n play ignition switch bypass relay that takes the headlight circuit off the switch. I bought one. Super easy to install and highly recommend it.

While I'm down waiting on my replacement throttle grip to arrive from kuryakyn, thought I would go ahead and change the fuel filter. Yes it is a pain in the butt to do but I think it's worth it.

Just curious. Wonder how many turns before you risk the screw falling out?

Cougar, Thanks for this. Just what I was needed.