stator ohm reading Help

[BigDogrx1]

Hello Guys, Iam putting new bushings in frt end, looked at plug from stator and thought to check ohms, repair manual says should read 0.19-0.24
Mine reads 1.9-2.1 and 1.2 outer to outer pins. Any reason or opinions, help would be appreciated, Larry

 

[BigDogrx1]

Oops sorry is on 2003 rx1

 

[Koenig]

just a guess, but your readings are both off by a decimal point to norm... Perhaps you set your meter different ???

 

[BigDogrx1]

That's what I wondered to, but I tryed every setting on ohm meter, and had my neighbor (30yr electrician) and he got same reading,

 

[superfan75]

Is the air temp you checked your readings at close to what the book calls for. I was testing a stator last year and I found out that the readings can change with the air temp and the book usually calls for a certain reading at a certain air temp. I also talked to a mechanic about it and he said the best way to see if the stator is bad is to make sure there isn't a short. You shouldn't read 0 ohm's to ground. He said if the reading is off a little that it doesn't mean its a bad stator. He also told the digital meter I used wasn't accurate enough, I needed a analog meter. I don't know what kind of meter you used, but that's what I went through last year trouble shooting my old Viper stator to find out that wasn't the problem and it turned out to be a broken wire. Hope this helps.

 

[BigDogrx1]

Superfan75, thanks for responding, ya book says read at 68deg, it was about 45/50deg when I checked both times.
my meter is a cheap digital one, but neighbors is high dollar one, I don't think it would be a bad wire from my readings, thanks again, guess I need to pull belt and run it up to 5k rpms for a couple seconds to make sure charge is right, book says do it that way, anymore help? LARRY

 

[YamahaHoss]

Superfan75, thanks for responding, ya book says read at 68deg, it was about 45/50deg when I checked both times.
my meter is a cheap digital one, but neighbors is high dollar one, I don't think it would be a bad wire from my readings, thanks again, guess I need to pull belt and run it up to 5k rpms for a couple seconds to make sure charge is right, book says do it that way, anymore help? LARRY

were your reading correct or stator bad?