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Old Feb 15, 2008 | 01:22 PM
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I have a 1999 Heritage Softail. Stock Carb(I beleive) Stage 1 breather with K&N filter. I thik the pipes are stock. My problem is when it is warming up it will "cough" as it gets warmer. If I push the enricher in to soon it gets worse then levels out. It also "coughs" occasionally on the road, usually when I get off the throttle.
I'm new at Harleys, just bought this bike in Oct. Been riding rice since.... well along time anyway. LOL. Any help would be nice.
Thanks, Jake
 
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Have you checked your plugs?
 
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Old Feb 16, 2008 | 06:16 PM
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Thanks for the reply, but yes I did. The day after moving the bike into my garage and it coughed I almost dropped it. The plugs were clean, BUT the guy I bought it from didn't know anything about the bike. He didn't even know it was stage one.(He didn't even know what stage one was.) He owned it about a year. So I will chabge the plugs. And have the 25,000 mile check done.
 
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Let us know how it works out.
 
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