but it could be worse. I'm 1000 miles into a 3800 mile trip through Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alberta and British Columbia. I posted my ride plan earlier at https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...ut-please.html

So this morning I left Lethbridge, AB at 7:10. Clear and sunny and a balmy 3 degrees (37 to us). Nice ride to Calgary. Stopped in Calgary for gas. 150 km North of Calgary, cruising north on highway 2 at a smooth 115 (that's 70 mph for us yanks) when the engine died. Just quit. No popping, backfire, nothing. Just dead. I carry a troubleshooting sheet with me so I pulled the error codes from the ECM. Two codes 1)No combustion front cylinder 2) No combustion rear cylinder. NO KIDDING, thank you very much. Without any other codes I figured it had to be fuel related, not electrical. Thought it might be a bad fuel pump. Got out the best tool in my toolkit, my AAA card and made the call. Took about 10 minutes to get connected from AAA Washington to AAA Alberta. They said they would make it a priority call because I was sitting on the side of the highway and that isn’t safe. Twenty minutes later a tow truck was on site. Tow truck driver was awesome. Really knew what he was doing. Nice 160 km tow to Heritage Harley in Edmonton. I called them when we were on the way to let them know I was coming. Didn’t know if I would get there before they closed. Clint at Heritage said not to worry, he and a mechanic would hang around until I got there. We actually got there at 3:30 (they close at 5). I told them what I knew and they took the bike right in to the service area. Checked the fuel pump and it was OK but no gas was getting to the engine. Long story short, the line out of the fuel pump (inside the tank) came off. Took them an hour and a half total to diagnose and fix it. The only downside to this is they don’t know why it came off. Line and connectors are in good shape. I changed the fuel filter which is attached to the fuel pump about 8000 miles ago. Maybe I knocked the line loose and it finally came off. Hope that’s the case and it doesn’t come off again. I've still got a long way to go. For those of you that live in Edmonton, I obviously highly recommend Heritage Harley and Clint as well as Jimmy at Key towing out of Red Deer.

On a side note. Helmet on the ground, side covers off, on my knees trying to see if any connectors were loose. Half a dozen Harleys go by. One rider actually waved to me as he went by. None stopped.

Continuing my trip tomorrow. Wish me luck

 

Glad it was an easy fix, at least.

Good luck with the rest of the trip.

 

Glad it was an easy enough fix! Good luck on the rest of your ride!

 

yeah, it's those Alberta riders. That wouldn't happen in BC Enjoy the rest of your trip.

 

If you were 150 km. north of Calgary that puts you only a few km. away from Red Deer, which has a great dealer (Gasoline Alley). So why did they tow you all the way to Edmonton?

 

Glad to see back up,broke down once no cell service. At least 75 Harley's went by without anyone stopping. Finally a BMW rider stopped, rode 10 miles to call AAA for me, and road all the way back to tell me they're on there way. Guy wouldn't take a dime. Riders of today aren't what they used to be.

 

a lot of them sure don't look out for one another that's for sure.
Op I am glad to hear you got her fixed , enjoy the rest of your trip.

 

Glad to know you are back up and running.
Enjoy the ride.

 

I asked them too. My AAA plan covered up to 360km. Edmonton has 2 dealers so I figured if a part was needed and one dealer didn't have it they might be able to get it from the other. Plus I asked the tow truck driver which he would prefer to take me to. He's works on commission so the long tow was better for him. Finally, Edmonton was the planned stop for the day and if the bike was going to be down waiting for parts I would rather spend a day or two in Edmonton than Red Deer. Nothing against Red Deer but Edmonton is a much larger city.

 

Always damn nice to hear about good people helping a guy out. Would have been cool if some of those passing riders had stopped, but the people in the story that counted were solid.