Anthony C
Member
I need some help and insight. My 2009 FLHX STREET GLIDE has something going on. In the mornings, it starts fine all the time. But this is where I’m confused. When it’s cold and the RPM’s are above 1200 which it should be it runs fine. As soon as it starts to reach the temperature to settle down the RPM’s it starts to miss fire on the rear cylinder, but as soon as I start to open the throttle it comes right back. It runs great going down the road, plenty of power. I say the rear cyclinder because there’s no vapor coming out of the right muffler, only the left muffler. There’s no cat in the head pipe. I have a set of love jugs on my ride, they work beautiful. Before I put the love jugs on, when it was hot waiting for a traffic light, or stuck in traffic. I could really tell the parade mode kicked in, because it maintains the proper RPM’s. As soon as I crack the throttle it comes back to life. Now since I put the love jugs on, I never experienced the parade mode again. But yet it misfires at an idle. Not all the time, but more often then not. My question is, what can cause this issue? I’m not sure what the item is called that takes the place of the carburetor. Could it be that? I say this because, I brought the bike to a guy here in Virginia Beach, va to replace the front tire, state inspection, he said I needed rear brakes. So I said go ahead and put the brake pads on. Now the bike was relitively new to me at the time (September of 2015) I never had any codes come up until I left this shop. When I went to pick it up, it started right up, but I had no throttle response. So the guy comes over and pushes the plug in behind the air filter housing. Well I didn’t need anything done with that. And ever since then I’ve been having issues with the idle. I felt the shop swapped out whatever that piece is called but couldn’t prove it. What made me really think this shop is bogus is this. I met a guy in Virginia Beach where I work, it just so happens he used the same shop. He had work done on his bike there, and the shop replace the transmission output bearing. It started making a little noise again. So I checked the transmission for him, and it was way low and never had a leak anywhere. It gets better! He brought his sons bike there for a rear tire, his son had it less then a week and the belt snapped! So I told the friend I met from work to check the tension on his belt. The belt was so tight you couldn’t even move it up. So a transmission that was left low, and two belts that were so tight you couldn’t even move them. I replaced the belt on his sons bike, when I went to this shop for parts and told him what I was doing He said to me. “What are you trying to do, put me out of business!” At this point I do believe something was done to my bike while it was there. If someone can help me out I would really appreciate it.
Thanking you in advance,
Anthony C
Thanking you in advance,
Anthony C