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Goodandybadpizza
| | Posted on Saturday, August 06, 2011 - 01:32 pm: | 
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The bike is a 2006 xb12ss with drummer ss exhaust, kn air filter, open airbox, and ebr race ecm. The problems all started when I put in the race ecm and had the tps reset done by my local dealer. There is a thread on that here...
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/327 77/639670.html?1312057985
I talked to ebr about it and they said they could take the tps setting off of my stock ecm and reprogram them into the race ecm. They did, but it is still not running correctly.
Usually now it'll take several starting attempts to get it to run and the idle is a bit low- 700-800rpm. If I try to adjust the idle higher, it dies. If I touch the throttle, it dies. If I grab and apply more throttle, it will, at times, rev higher, but at times will die.
Someone suggested that I will have to ride it for the bike to learn the new settings and so on, but it will usually die 5 or more times before I can even get it to the end of the drive way. When I manage to get past that point, as I did yesterday, the ride is very jerky. Even with a steady throttle the rpms will jump up and down quickly by about 500 rpm or so. I only made it around the block and didn't feel safe trying to go farther. It was also back firing a few times and I additionally have heard an odd popping (like popcorn popping) that sounds like it is coming from the engine.
I looked for the idle controller as suggested, but it appears that there isn't one in a 2006 bike. Riding it as it is seems out of the question. Does anyone have any suggestions? |
Terrys1980
| | Posted on Saturday, August 06, 2011 - 01:45 pm: |
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Drain the gas, put new gas. Pull the air filter and have a look inside the throttle body to make sure the butterfly is functioning properly. |
Two_seasons
| | Posted on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 12:08 am: |
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This thread may help you. It deals with TPS reset.
http://www.buellxb.com/Buell-XB-Forum/Buell-Firebo lt-XB12-XB9/Troubleshooting/TPS-reset-issues
Maybe another angle is to call Al at American Sport Bike and see if he can guide you over the phone. |
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