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Predator199018gmailcom
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 06:47 pm: | 
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I have a dumb question. How hot should my bike be getting? At stoplights my legs can feel the heat. Any suggestions/answers?
2004 xb12r firebolt |
Predator199018gmailcom
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 07:00 pm: |
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Only thing I've done to it is added a k&n filter and just recently reset the tps.
(Message edited by predator199018gmail.com on October 23, 2014) |
Froggy
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 07:13 pm: |
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Being an air cooled engine, the temperature will greatly vary depending on weather, riding conditions, and so on.
Feeling heat coming off of it is normal, it has to go somewhere. As long as the cooling fan is working, and the bike is not entering skip spark (flashing the check engine light and misfiring the rear cylinder), all is likely to be fine. |
Predator199018gmailcom
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 07:18 pm: |
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Thanks for the quick response. |
Predator199018gmailcom
| | Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 01:32 pm: |
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Hey froggy I think what you said is going on today while I was riding to work the check engine light was flickering and bike was stuttering/sputtering help please |
Froggy
| | Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 01:53 pm: |
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Hard to say without seeing it first hand. I would try and hook up to the computer with ECMspy and look for any fault codes. I would then run the fan diagnostic to make sure that it is running.
From there I would take it for a ride while data logging, and see if I could reproduce the issue. Then I would check the log and look for things like engine temperature, it could be the engine is overheating, or it could be a malfunctioning engine temperature sensor |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 02:07 pm: |
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"or it could be a malfunctioning engine temperature sensor"
This would not be unheard of. |
Predator199018gmailcom
| | Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 02:21 pm: |
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So I do have the ecmspy how would I go about data logging. Sorry for the ignorance. |
Predator199018gmailcom
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2014 - 10:30 am: |
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These were the trouble codes. I ran the diagnostic on everything that was on the ecm spy and nothing. I cleared the trouble codes and after the bike warmed up they were gone. |
Predator199018gmailcom
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2014 - 10:31 am: |
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Trouble code 23 front injector short to ground or open
trouble code 32 rear injector ( same thing)
trouble code 21 active muffler control
(Message edited by predator199018gmailcom on October 31, 2014) |
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