stumped...

[Johnny K]

I am completely stumped. I thought it was the wiring, but I am not sure. When I finally started the bike it ran boggy as if the carbs had not been cleaned. I took them completely apart and sprayed every part with carb cleaner then with compressed air. It is the same horrible boggy noise that I have no idea why my bike is like this now. From beginning: I kept on thinking I was fixing a "sooty" problem on my plugs due to a charred spark plug connecting to the coil and inside as well. That lead me to the wire straight from the dyna S that was sliced a little and then decided to solder the 3 wires and still had the sooty spark plug, but my bike ran almost perfect and sounded awesome. So I ended up buying a new dyna S ignition, dyna wires and dyna coils. I statically timed 1-4 and 2-3 correctly. I did not replace any wires like I thought I was going to because when my bike was extremely boggy, I thought it was the carbs and didn't want to touch the wiring. But now my bike idles okay, sounds so bad and boggy no matter how much throttle you give it. If need be I would pay someone to come here and fix my bike because I am just stumped. Once it is fixed I will sell her too. Here is a video of what it sounds like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtruxJ6xoFY

There is my other video of when my bike ran so good.

[tkent02]

Sounds like the air filters are not there, so it can barely run.

[tom203]

Sounds like the air filters are not there, so it can barely run.

Actually, they aren't there! This is not helping! also sounds like it's running on two cylinders- have you felt pipes? Wasn't this the bike with charred wiring harness that you got a replacement for? It's a beautiful looking bike- you have to sort out this step by step and don't jump from blaming electrics to then blaming the fuel system. Do it logically !

[mighty13d]

put your air filter(s) back on. either pods if it's jetted or stock box back on there and try again.

[Johnny K]

The pods were on there before and it still sounded horrible. I did buy a wiring harness, but when I put on a new ignition, I had thought it was timing and nothing else. When I took the pods off there was a little tiny bit of gas on the edges so I thought it was carbs too. So I didn't replace any wires, timed it correctly, completely took apart the carbs and sprayed them nice n clean with carb spray and air blew jets and everything else. So after that it is still sounding horrible. I did take it out for a very short ride. No matter how much throttle or rpm from beginning to end and through every gear, it sounds horribly boggy. Really stumped.

[tom203]

"My sig is my bike. 3 years ago I bought and basically replaced every thing on my bike from piston rings, everything electronically and so forth. After recently buying a new dyna s ignition, dyna wires and dyna coils my bike ran awesome then all of a sudden died" (from previous post)


Help me out here. It was running" awesome" after the dyna (and it had pods already) and then it died? How long did it run? Then, you discovered your harness was a basket case. This still smells like electrics to me.

[posplayr]

put your air filter(s) back on. either pods if it's jetted or stock box back on there and try again.

yea the video is meaningless without pods/filters. Also make sure that the carbs are fully seated in the rubbers so you have no leaks.