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Old Jul 29, 2018 | 06:03 AM
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I was out with a friend yesterday. He was on his 2003 FI Heritage and his bike started to sputter. The bike has a PC5 , Andrews 21 cams. It has been running fine. He did make it home under his own power. He was a little low on fues so on the wau=y home I had him fill his tank to eliminate the in tank line issue. We changed the plugs, they weren't too bad. Checked the charging system- ok. Checked all the battery and cpu connections.

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Intermittent crapping out will probably be electrical .
Check your battery terminalks is/are not loose maybe.
It's probably a connection somewhere.
 
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Found the issue. The shaft the butterfly mounts to in the throttle body is broke, seems like this was a know issue on 88 inch twin cams
 
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Found the issue. The shaft the butterfly mounts to in the throttle body is broke, seems like this was a know issue on 88 inch twin cams
There you go ,haven't heard of that one.
 
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