| Author | Message | ||
     Arry |
What is the noise (like a small electric motor/servo?) when you turn the key & kill switch to the run position. In another thread someone says the mufler valve actuator should operate when you cycle the key. Mine does not, but it seems to run fine. | ||
| Froggy |
You may be hearing the fuel pump priming. | ||
| Skifastbadly |
Agreed. Fuel pump. | ||
| Ourdee |
Fuel pump. echo echo echo echo echo | ||
| Trojan |
Dilithium crystals warming up  | ||
| Ratbuell |
flux capacitor...fluxing. | ||
| Crusty |
Does that mean his bike is all fluxed up? | ||
| Towpro |
don't worry about it until the day it gets louder, or you don't here it. Then it the fuel pump not working. | ||
| Hooper |
That's the hyperdrive motivator. If you need to fix it, you'll need to order a hydrospanner.  | ||
| Dennis_c |
Your whatchacallit is bad you know that thing that runs your dohicky that makes that thingabob work. Cost to much to fix so I will give you $559.95 for the hole bike offer good for 2 days only then it will drop $25. a day | ||
| Guell |
It's your blinker fluid pump priming itself (Message edited by guell on February 08, 2012) | ||
| Ronmold |
"Atomic batteries to power..Turbines to speed.."  (Message edited by ronmold on February 08, 2012) | ||
| Ronmold |
Hey Dennis, my KLR650 actually had a part called the "dohicky"! | ||
| Arry |
So, I guess the muffler valve actuator does not operate when the key is cycled (as stated in another thread)? Can I order a hydrospanner thru a local dealership? Thanks for all the innput!!!? | ||
| Ratbuell |
I think if you want to test the muffler actuator, have the run switch on, turn the key on, and cycle the run switch off/on. I believe that will trigger the actuator. | ||
| Redhat |
For testing the actuator: kill switch "on", then turn key "on", but hold the throttle wide open when you turn the key on. Do NOT hit the start button! http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/142 838/544835.html?1269468587 | ||
| 7873jake |
IIRC, someone posted that if you were going to do this sort of test, that pulling the fuse for the fuel pump would keep your from re-priming the pump each time and reduce/remove the risk of fouling the plugs (or filling your cyls with gas). Again, this is an IIRC moment at the end of a CRS week. | ||
| Tootal |
The injectors would not squirt any fuel until the starter was running, unless you have a leaking one then that's a different subject. The fuel just bypasses to tank, no problem. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Technically the injectors won't fire until the timing system tells it to, by way of crank rotation... | ||
| Griffmeister |
Besides that, according to the Buell techs, this same procedure for checking the actuator will also rapidly fire the plugs for a few seconds. Supposedly this will "clean" a mildly fouled plug. Didn't work for me when I needed it to, though. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Anti-foul is only on 08-up bikes, and I've had to run the process four or five times to get results (but it does work). |
