Ok the story so far,
I spoke with the John at Metropolitan Motorcycle Wreckers at 8.00am this morning and he told me they had 2 ST1100s in stock one a 98 and the other a 99.
He told me to come after 11.30 as he "had to whip it out" and he would need "about an hour and a bit". I got there at 12.00 with Rooster and my name was mud
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He had only just got the swing arm off as I arived and to make maters worse it was the only ST1100 they had as one had been sold compleati-ish a week or 2 ago.
As he was explaing this to me I'm looking at the bike in question and rea;lise that it is a 1990 model in Sparkle Silver with 51000km on the clock. So I pointed that out to him and explained the difference and we even looked at the copmplince plate.
He was not happy, but Rooster pointed out that the Regulator and plug were in pristine condition so I bought them both and with the money left over I bought 2 side covers a Left pocket and a tank cove.
While we were there John tested the altenator and it came as perfect so we discussed how to go about the removal of the altenator from the bike, he was going to continue that on monday.
Long story short got home spliced the new plug into the wiring loom Rooster did a static test and the altenator is fine put the regulator in got it all back together and on test it was charging at 14.98V at 5000rpmand 13.20 at idle.
So for less than the $300 quoted I'm back on the road with the Silver Fox looking the best she has looked in years and I know where to get a perfectly good altenator if needed.
I want to thank everyone for their imput and offers of help. It has been a realy humbling experince for me and I truly appreciate it. And if the the time comes that I need to replace the altenator my wife will cook up a storm for all who help and I allways have a keg of 2 in the fridge for after.
Beefa