What did you do to Your Sportster Today?
#5181
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Red Banks, Mississippi
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Tried to leave from work yesterday and click, click, click. A co-worker was able to push start me to get home.
Took the battery out and tested it...good battery. Another victim of loose battery cable syndrome. Put the battery back in with dielectric grease and tightened that bad boy down. Also tightened the ground to frame bolt just in case.
She started right up, no problems!
Took the battery out and tested it...good battery. Another victim of loose battery cable syndrome. Put the battery back in with dielectric grease and tightened that bad boy down. Also tightened the ground to frame bolt just in case.
She started right up, no problems!
#5182
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#5184
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
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The sporty. It hit 437° that's not normal. the super scientific "hand in front of the exhuast pipe" test yielded less force on the rear cyclnder pipe than the front.
I'm going to go in and reset the lifters, and re-adjust the pushrods. If that doesn't resolve it, i will reset the cam timing. I was pretty sure i did it buy the book but, iam not ashamedof saying i have no idea what i'm doing. Just following my gut. Laughable
I'm going to go in and reset the lifters, and re-adjust the pushrods. If that doesn't resolve it, i will reset the cam timing. I was pretty sure i did it buy the book but, iam not ashamedof saying i have no idea what i'm doing. Just following my gut. Laughable
#5185
The sporty. It hit 437° that's not normal. the super scientific "hand in front of the exhuast pipe" test yielded less force on the rear cyclnder pipe than the front.
I'm going to go in and reset the lifters, and re-adjust the pushrods. If that doesn't resolve it, i will reset the cam timing. I was pretty sure i did it buy the book but, iam not ashamedof saying i have no idea what i'm doing. Just following my gut. Laughable
I'm going to go in and reset the lifters, and re-adjust the pushrods. If that doesn't resolve it, i will reset the cam timing. I was pretty sure i did it buy the book but, iam not ashamedof saying i have no idea what i'm doing. Just following my gut. Laughable
#5187
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the highest ive ever seen it was about 395. One of my vids with the tru beam even has the temps at 384. May have gone higher when I wasn't looking. Thats fine i think. The issue with the 437 was the rate at which it climbed and the fact that it didn't drop while i was going as fast as i was.. it was climbing instead of cooling.
ive seen it jump up like that in stop and go but it will drop down quickly once i start moving because the thermostat on the oil cooler is open. You can feel the heat from the oil cooler when the thermostat opens.
the thermostat was open on the 437° run.
Bazaar. I took it out on sunday:
it seemed okay but, definitely need see what the story is before it blows up on me. The learning continues.
#5189
Rode it to work and back, then it wouldn't start back up.
1998 1200S
Turn the key, speedo lights up, makes a buzzing noise. Neutral and engine lights don't come one. Headlight doesn't come on. Switching it to run does nothing. Won't start. Turn signals work but stay solid, not blinking. Fuses are all good.
BUT
Found gas leaking all the way to the fuse block area (none got to the fuses). Seems to be leaking from the petcock into the main wiring loom all the way down to where the loom ends right before the fuse block.
Just bought this bike earlier this week and not starting out well.
Here you can see photos of the end of the loom where it seems the gas is getting to and also the leak at the petcock.
Gas leaking out of loom
Petcock leak
1998 1200S
Turn the key, speedo lights up, makes a buzzing noise. Neutral and engine lights don't come one. Headlight doesn't come on. Switching it to run does nothing. Won't start. Turn signals work but stay solid, not blinking. Fuses are all good.
BUT
Found gas leaking all the way to the fuse block area (none got to the fuses). Seems to be leaking from the petcock into the main wiring loom all the way down to where the loom ends right before the fuse block.
Just bought this bike earlier this week and not starting out well.
Here you can see photos of the end of the loom where it seems the gas is getting to and also the leak at the petcock.
Gas leaking out of loom
Petcock leak
#5190
Join Date: Nov 2010
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The sporty. It hit 437° that's not normal. the super scientific "hand in front of the exhuast pipe" test yielded less force on the rear cyclnder pipe than the front.
I'm going to go in and reset the lifters, and re-adjust the pushrods. If that doesn't resolve it, i will reset the cam timing. I was pretty sure i did it buy the book but, iam not ashamedof saying i have no idea what i'm doing. Just following my gut. Laughable
I'm going to go in and reset the lifters, and re-adjust the pushrods. If that doesn't resolve it, i will reset the cam timing. I was pretty sure i did it buy the book but, iam not ashamedof saying i have no idea what i'm doing. Just following my gut. Laughable
no stop and go, i was doing 70 down a parkway 40 or so on back roads. It just kept climbing.
the highest ive ever seen it was about 395. One of my vids with the tru beam even has the temps at 384. May have gone higher when I wasn't looking. Thats fine i think. The issue with the 437 was the rate at which it climbed and the fact that it didn't drop while i was going as fast as i was.. it was climbing instead of cooling.
ive seen it jump up like that in stop and go but it will drop down quickly once i start moving because the thermostat on the oil cooler is open. You can feel the heat from the oil cooler when the thermostat opens.
the thermostat was open on the 437° run.
Bazaar. I took it out on sunday:
https://youtu.be/QS1M_H03F2M
it seemed okay but, definitely need see what the story is before it blows up on me. The learning continues.
the highest ive ever seen it was about 395. One of my vids with the tru beam even has the temps at 384. May have gone higher when I wasn't looking. Thats fine i think. The issue with the 437 was the rate at which it climbed and the fact that it didn't drop while i was going as fast as i was.. it was climbing instead of cooling.
ive seen it jump up like that in stop and go but it will drop down quickly once i start moving because the thermostat on the oil cooler is open. You can feel the heat from the oil cooler when the thermostat opens.
the thermostat was open on the 437° run.
Bazaar. I took it out on sunday:
https://youtu.be/QS1M_H03F2M
it seemed okay but, definitely need see what the story is before it blows up on me. The learning continues.
When I saw it hit 420 I pulled to the side, richened up the afr, retarded the timing and left it that way til I got out of the traffic.
Nice thing about the Sportys, they seem to hold up better under extreme heat than the Twin Cams. hscic has had his get that hot (or hotter) but it still did well on the leak down test.