Article: The electrical connection.(Tech Q&A)

Q: I sold a 1981 Yamaha 650 Midnight Maxim to a friend who is now having a problem finding parts for it. He says the alternator is bad and none of the local shops can help him find a new one. Can you please let me know if there is any place where he might find one? If not an '81, then maybe another year that would work.

Roy Bieghler

Via E-Mail

A: An easy one, this. But if there's one installment of Tech Q&A that needs to be cut out and stuck to the refrigerator, this is it.

Every month my mailbag from Rider is stuffed with questions from riders looking for obsolete Japanese electrical parts, or just plain suffering from parts-counter ...

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