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Old Dec 6, 2016 | 09:10 PM
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Happy Holidays everyone. I'm new to the board but not new to the brand. I own a 2007 Electra Glide and most recently I scored a sweet deal on a 2001 Softail.

And thats at a where the problem lies at the moment. I got it home and promptly tore into it to see what the PO had done before I got to doing my own thing. It has a Revtech DFO on it (not familiar with that at all) and had this awful chrome intake with the ********* hanging off each side. I am getting this cough out of the throttle body and then the idle goes haywire until it sputters and dies. When I took the intake off there was no gasket between the bracket and throttle body or bracket and intake. I'm assuming this might be the culprit. I also noticed the IAC was blacker than a lying, cheating, stealing woman's heart so I cleaned that with some qtips and alcohol. I won't be running this until Thursday when my new, less awful looking intake arrives.

For now, here is the video of what it is doing.
https://youtu.be/QvbZjV8Gm3I
Let me know what your thoughts are. Thanks for your help and have a great Christmas.
 
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Old Dec 7, 2016 | 12:47 PM
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As ugly as the ********* are, they are venting your bike to atmosphere.....that is a good thing!

Sounds like it is time to check all the sensors, IAC, TPS, MAP, ET, etc....
 
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DFO? IAC? *********? What you talking about?
 
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DFO? IAC? *********? What you talking about?
DFO is the Revtec tuner, IAC is the Idle Air Control, ********* are the filters/catch cans for venting the head to atmosphere....
 
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Welcome. When you mentioned ********* and cough in the write up I started looking for the punch line.
 
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