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Old Aug 27, 2019 | 07:57 AM
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Went for a ride on Sunday and noticed the bike was real sluggish (2010 ultra 103 kit, 551cams, no cat head pipe, k&n filter with open air box, FP3, 4” double slack mufflers) it got so bad I couldn’t get it over 4000rpm by now I’m 45 miles from the house though for a minute it was the map so I reprogrammed then I stopped and replaced the plugs. I also noticed a very strange smell fro the left side of the motor like a very hot oil smell. So I decided to split off and head back to the house as easy as possible on the way I noticed I was going through fuel pretty fast so I stopped and add 3 gallons with only 60 miles on the trip meter I also added about 1/2 a bottle of fuel injector cleaner just to see if that would help figured it couldn’t get worse. The closer I got to the house the better she ran all I can figure is I had a plugged injectors and that leaned out the motor so much besides running like crap it got hotter than hell
 
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