07-08-2017, 05:29 AM
I've watched this thread steadily growing over the last year never once thinking I'd have a reason to post in it.
Last weekend I took a short ride and noticed for the first time that the idle would not drop below 1500.
During the work week I read the full 30 plus pages of this thread and my takeaway was the following, (I'm long out of warranty): I'm not going to spend bucks on an experimental fix since there seems to be no consensus as to what the cause is. I did like what one poster said about doing a track day and I also liked the idea of trying injector cleaner. Well, I'm not going to the track, but I can get the fuel additive and take the bike on an early morning WFO flog session on a nearby super highway.
Stats going in:
Bought the DLX new in 2014.
Nothing has ever been modified.
The bike never presented one single problem.
I've done regular oil changes.
Had the 8K done at the selling dealer 11/2016.
The bike has 8700 miles on it.
It's only ever had 87 octane in it.
Original Battery is still in use.
I didn't have high hopes of curing the high idle issue but thought I'd take a shot anyway. So, out to the highway with a full tank of gas loaded with Lucas Fuel Injector cleaner. I blew half of the tank of gas out the tail pipe cycling up to full throttle and back down. Pinning it all the way open as much as I could. Prior to this I've never opened it all the way up and never went over 90 on the bike. I did what I did to make sure that any mechanical parts involved in fuel delivery were cycled stop to stop many times so that if it's gunk causing the high idle it might be moved or removed. What do I know?
After all that, it didn't work. It was fun though.
Got back to my house after several hours of doing that. Stopped at the top of my driveway and the motor was still spinning along at 1500. Oh well.
I let it sit for three hours till the motor was just barely warm. Started it up and the Idle settled right down to where it should be. Something it hadn't done over several rides in the last week. So I decided to ride to the store and for the first half of the ride, maybe four miles, at every stop, the idle settled right down. After that, at full operating temp, right back to 1500 again.
Into the store for a half hour, back to the bike, start it up, 1050 rpms, nice, half way home, back to 1500.
I guess this is what it's going to be now.
Last weekend I took a short ride and noticed for the first time that the idle would not drop below 1500.
During the work week I read the full 30 plus pages of this thread and my takeaway was the following, (I'm long out of warranty): I'm not going to spend bucks on an experimental fix since there seems to be no consensus as to what the cause is. I did like what one poster said about doing a track day and I also liked the idea of trying injector cleaner. Well, I'm not going to the track, but I can get the fuel additive and take the bike on an early morning WFO flog session on a nearby super highway.
Stats going in:
Bought the DLX new in 2014.
Nothing has ever been modified.
The bike never presented one single problem.
I've done regular oil changes.
Had the 8K done at the selling dealer 11/2016.
The bike has 8700 miles on it.
It's only ever had 87 octane in it.
Original Battery is still in use.
I didn't have high hopes of curing the high idle issue but thought I'd take a shot anyway. So, out to the highway with a full tank of gas loaded with Lucas Fuel Injector cleaner. I blew half of the tank of gas out the tail pipe cycling up to full throttle and back down. Pinning it all the way open as much as I could. Prior to this I've never opened it all the way up and never went over 90 on the bike. I did what I did to make sure that any mechanical parts involved in fuel delivery were cycled stop to stop many times so that if it's gunk causing the high idle it might be moved or removed. What do I know?
After all that, it didn't work. It was fun though.
Got back to my house after several hours of doing that. Stopped at the top of my driveway and the motor was still spinning along at 1500. Oh well.
I let it sit for three hours till the motor was just barely warm. Started it up and the Idle settled right down to where it should be. Something it hadn't done over several rides in the last week. So I decided to ride to the store and for the first half of the ride, maybe four miles, at every stop, the idle settled right down. After that, at full operating temp, right back to 1500 again.
Into the store for a half hour, back to the bike, start it up, 1050 rpms, nice, half way home, back to 1500.
I guess this is what it's going to be now.