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Mar 10, 2015 | 06:31 PM

Herksuper

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From: Spring Lake

Shutdown between shifts

So the other day, me and my bud were hitting an on-ramp and he decides he wants to play. So I hammer down through second gear into third, get up to 5000 rpm and as I go to shift into 4th...there was nothing. The engine just shut down between shifts. I clutch it, evaluate what is going on, put the kill switch to stop then back to run, hit the starter and she fired right back up while I was still rolling with the clutch in. Is there a chance I asked a little too much from my cams and floated a valve causing the shutdown? I still had electrical power and stereo still playing but engine was shut down. I've been riding since then and she's runnig like a champ, but I haven't hammered on her like I did at that time What say you gurus?

Mar 11, 2015 | 06:51 PM

Max Headflow

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From: poway

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Originally Posted by Herksuper

You can't over rev a HD unless someone set the limiter to something above 6500.. You are able to take the throttle and hold it wide open and not hurt the motor, providing you don't do it for too long.. Maybe a couple minutes.. I've taken an 02 RKC and wound it to 4500, WOT and pulled the clutch in on a dare.. Motor just bounces of the limiter.. My bet is that somehow the bank angle sensor got bumped and the TSSM thought the bike was tipped.. Requires an ignition / kill switch cycle to reset.. A tell tail symptom is the starter button won't work either until you cycle the kill switch or main ignition.

Add.. Another issue is that if you like to putt and don't get on it, you might have knocked some carbon loose and fouled the plugs temporarily.. I would expect that it would be hard to do with these new ignitions but I've seen it happen to old Leadwings..

Last edited by Max Headflow; Mar 11, 2015 at 06:55 PM. Reason: Add