Carbon and oil could be from leaking crank seal allowing exhaust and oil to blow in there instead of out the pipe. Or maybe there was a fire in there??? lol, idk. Usually I just find it dry dusty or rusty under a flywheel cover.
Um yeah there are 3 timing marks, and rotating the stator plate counter clockwise retards the timing.
86 T3
84 T3
86 KX250
WEll the last T3 i got had a flywheel in it that looked just like that except that glue or what ever is inside yours. Mine was all clean on the inside just metal to metal surfaces.
I suppose it could be an overflow / excess epoxy they used to glue magnets in place.
86 T3
84 T3
86 KX250
It's the "except that glue" part I'm concerned about. The main "bead" seems to be out of the way, but there's a large blob at the top of the picture that looks sure to interfere with the stator coils. I don't want to spend another $125 without cause, but I don't want crap coming loose and ruining my new stator either.
Call ricky stator.. tell them what you see..
explain to them politely that you will post picts of their product and what happened.. see if they will make it rite..
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I would certainly appreciate it if he'd get back to me, but I don't really expect them to warranty it. It looks to me like the stator plate came loose and that's what caused all the damage in the first place. As far as the "glue" inside the flywheel, I had another friend who's been a mechanic for years (not on motorcycles or ATVs) look at it, and he thinks it's foreign material as well. Maybe melted plastic from when the coil came loose and got really hot scraping around inside.
That's what I would do.