Having gotten significant response from members on my comments in another thread on my observation that my bike has many thousands of miles with the annoying idle hang the first hour of driving I dug into it one more time.
Checked the carb sync - perfect.
Airbox to carbs, carbs to intake runners sealed perfectly (with my blood). Rubber in like new condition.
Plugs, again, perfect combustion indicated.
Fact- after the first 1/2hr to 45 minutes it will not hang the rest of the days ride so why would I muck about with the jets? No complaints from the butt dyno at any rpm
I got the best Motion Pro II cables, lubed with some exotic aerospace oil from a helicopter mechanic when installed.
So - one forum comment stuck out - cables binding. Yep, that was it, two spots on the the return cable were pinched by heavy zip ties that were twisted later for aesthetics. Neither alone would have been enough to pinch the cable inside, but until it got hot enough in those areas to flow that fancy oil the cable would hang.
600 miles and almost three tanks of gas later the hang has not reoccurred. It took a bit of experiment to find the base idle level on that adjuster but I have not touched it since.
Thanks to forum members who insisted the idle hang was not a natural condition for FCR's I went looking to solving an issue I've had for over 20,00 miles.
Checked the carb sync - perfect.
Airbox to carbs, carbs to intake runners sealed perfectly (with my blood). Rubber in like new condition.
Plugs, again, perfect combustion indicated.
Fact- after the first 1/2hr to 45 minutes it will not hang the rest of the days ride so why would I muck about with the jets? No complaints from the butt dyno at any rpm
I got the best Motion Pro II cables, lubed with some exotic aerospace oil from a helicopter mechanic when installed.
So - one forum comment stuck out - cables binding. Yep, that was it, two spots on the the return cable were pinched by heavy zip ties that were twisted later for aesthetics. Neither alone would have been enough to pinch the cable inside, but until it got hot enough in those areas to flow that fancy oil the cable would hang.
600 miles and almost three tanks of gas later the hang has not reoccurred. It took a bit of experiment to find the base idle level on that adjuster but I have not touched it since.
Thanks to forum members who insisted the idle hang was not a natural condition for FCR's I went looking to solving an issue I've had for over 20,00 miles.