Hello,

I have a 2008 Street Bob with a 96CI motor. The bike has about 8K miles on it. As of last night, especially today, the bike keeps stalling as I come to a stop. It doesn't matter if I am gear, or have the clutch in. And I have to keep revving it to keep it going. When it is going down the road with throttle it is fine. It really just starting doing it during a short ride today and got progressively worse quickly. I don't even know where to start.

Can anybody give me some ideas?

Thanks,
Mark

 

had the same issue with my 08 softail, clean the iac to start, do a search and you'll find it quickly on this forum, with my bike i cleaned it but it didn't help, i then brought it to the dealer that i trust and they reflashed my ecm, never happened again

 

Fren5, Thanks. I did some quick searching and that makes some sense. I'm still searching for the best method. Did you clean it by spraying carp cleaner into the hole?

 

Upon investigation, the entire air cleaner assembly and intake area was all full of crud and oily. Is it normal for the air cleaner to be oily? Is that from my bike or from the road? I cleaned everything thoroughly and blew out the air cleaner baffles with a compressor and put it all back together. I didn't ride it, but it is idling fine in the garage.

 

Now I'm concerned about other problems since there is oil in my air filter. The bike only has 8K miles on it. Is it possible I already need rings. should I check compression? Maybe the oil is there from the break in period?

 

Bumped

 

The oil is mot likely come out of the breathers, the 2 bolts in the heads that go through the air cleaner assembly. Do some searching and you will find a bunch of topics on this.

 

Yeah, I found and cleaned all that. is this normal?

EDIT: I did do some forum searching and have a better idea of what's going on. Hopefully my issue is one of the easy fixes. Somebody told me that it isn't uncommon to need rings etc after 6,000 miles. Does that sound right?

 

I don't want to say its normal but not uncommon. You will find that some people run below the recommended oil capacity to stop breather blow by.

 

Oil in the air cleaner is normal. Clean the IAC and if that doesnt help try replacing the TPS.