looper voltage reg ?

[4174jm]

V6 looper with a v4 fly wheel can the voltage reg shut the motor down? I know it can kill the stator.Engine was running fine and the tach quit a couple of seconds later it started working and then the motor died was turning 57k when it shut off , hit the key and it fired right up .We made it the camp but I really didnt run it hard. On the way home turned it up again and it bogged out but didnt die made it back to the launch cruisng at 4k with a couple of short bursts and the engine runs fine at the landing shut it down to back the truck in and the battery was dead.The battery and the tach say there`s a regulator problem and I`m guessing the stall is a stator failure?THANKS.

[racer]

If you are running an electric fuel pump and the battery went down you may have been running with low fuel pressure. The battery charging side of the stator is different from the charge coils for the ignition, if the alt side got hot enough could have damaged the ign side but doubtful. If you do change the regulator change the battery as well.

[4174jm]

Thanks again and yes i`m running an electric pump but it showed no signs of low voltage the first time it stalled.Im gonna swap the regulator and battery.Before posting this I did a search on the regulators and read that some folks swap to a merc unit I guess the question is,is it worth the effort?

[racer]

Since you are running a v4 wheel which is 10 amp you could also switch to a rectifier only.

[4174jm]

Like the old cross flows ?

[flabum1017]

Are you sure it's not fuel starvation due to a fuel restriction or something non-electrical?

[4174jm]

I`m gonna check evrything out as soon as the rain lets up a little bit we`ve gotten 4 or 5 inches in the last couple of days.It was running perfect it died like I turned the key off I actually thought it might have seized.The second time was a little different it just bogged down,when I eased up on the throttle it picked back up.If it would have died that time I wouldn`t have had enough battery to fire it back up.

[4174jm]

I`m guessing the two yelllow wires hook to the stator and the red to the battery but where do you get a tach signal ?

[4174jm]

It`s dried out enough here to finally work on this thing.I changed the voltage reg with a stock replacement and installed a new battery.At the battery after a short run i`ve got 13.5 volts at idle and 14.5 at 3000rpm just wanted yall opinion seems a little high for a 10 amp stator.The only load is the fuel pump and what ever the motor pulls.