I pulled the R/R off my F2 tonight and besides being covered in lint (bike sat behind a laundromat for a few months), I noticed one of the terminals on the plug (if you were to have the push "lock" facing up it'd be the top left terminal) is burnt up
Could this be my charging issue? How would this happen?

 

your r/r sounds to be fried. thats what mine looked like before i replaced it.. btw, why was it behind a laundry mat lol

 

what about the terminal? is it burned?

yes, it could be the issue. most likely a result of the issue. the regulators go bad and do that quite frequently.

 

The R/R terminal looks fine, it's the plug on the bike harness that is fried. I'll post some pics up gimme a minute.

 

Pics

 

looks like a burnt out rectifier to me

see

 

I just noticed the R/R has heatsink fins. Does this mean it was replaced before?

 

yessir, does your bike charge properly?

 

If the bike is running properly and the r/r is a finned heat-sink model, then you probably can get by with just repairing the bike's harness connector.

When I replaced my r/r, instead of replacing the damaged harness connector, I just cut it off and added female bayonets to each of the wires. Then I slipped heat-shrink over each individual to insulate them and plugged each individually into the r/r.

Clean look and with only 5 wires easy to track what went where.



Ern

 

^^^^ i like his way