Used my day off to ride the st1100 to the tire store where I work. Took off
a pile of plastic and the rear wheel. Cleaned the splines, they were well greased with I don't know what but there was plenty of it. The splines were perfect, put some moly60 on'em. Did not replace any o-rings Put new brake pads after cleaning the pistons with brake fluid. Pulled every electrical connector and ground I could find. All were clean except for two pins in the reg/rect were slightly crusty. Teased those 2 pins out of the female plug, cleaned them and the pins in the rr, and put a dab of dielectric grease in evrything. Then put a voltmeter to the battery before re-connecting it, had 13.15 volts, indicating fully charged I think. Started it up, meter read 13.0 at 900rpm, 14.4 at 1100, and 14.6 to 14.67 from 2000 to 5000 rpm. Ran it at 2000-3000revs about 10 minutes to see the volts with fan, hi beam and brake lights adding their load, almost no change above 1500 revs. Wow, does that rr get hot or what! Too hot to press your fingers to and this from a guy used to handling sizzling hot lugnuts I have never had a bike this old so I am keen to look at this stuff. One of our auto techs said the wire/connector condition looked lots better than a 15 year old car would look,but then few cars this old have only 22,000 miles. Probably should pull the upper cowling and check those wires. All this stuff I did today were based on posts and suggestions from this board. Had fun doing this and feel better about and closer to this old bike.