Hi folks, this is my first post here on the site. Last Saturday, I bought a used '08 SM510R on craigslist. I went out to go look at it and everything seemed to check out and I was very impressed. Fired right up (cold start), idled for as long as I wanted it to, took it for a 10 minute ride through the guys neighborhood, let it idle some more. No problems. Purchased the bike and brought it home. For the rest of the weekend, I rode it around the neighborhood, started it, let it idle, etc. No problems.
I was away this week and couldn't get it registered until today. Once I got the plate, the first thing I did was go get some gas since I didn't really know how much was in it and I wanted to take it for a ride and not worry about running out. So I put in around 1.5 gallons of 93 grade to top off the tank. The previous owner mentioned he used 93 as well. I went back home, put my gear on and set out for my 17 mile loop. Before I went, I took the headlight plate off (4 rubber hooks that wrap around the fork tubes) to look at the wires coming out of the back of the Trail Tech Vapor (previous owner replaced faulty Husky dash with the Trail Tech) out of curiosity but I don't think anything got messed with or wires got disconnected. I also made sure that the radiator was full and that the reserve bottle was also about half full.
Once I got out on the road, all was great until I got to a long red light. The idle seemed to get slower and slower until the bike cut out. I restarted it and it fired right back up. But I had to keep the RPMs up a little bit while stopped, otherwise it would just happen again. Luckily I didn't encounter many more lights on the rest of the ride but I had to keep hit the throttle a little bit to prevent the bike from cutting out. It happened again when I was coming down a hill and I pulled in the clutch and rolled down the hill. Luckily I got it to start right back up right away.
Once I got home, I shut the bike off to let it cool down. Once it was cool, I tried to start it again, and it fired right up and idled for about 30 seconds and then died. So I got on the bike, started it, and slightly twisted the throttle to increase the RPMs to get it to keep running. Once I get going, it runs great. It just doesn't seem to want to idle, especially when cold. Another important thing to note is that on the trail tech vapor, there is a red light in the top right corner that comes on from time to time. The temperature reading on the display showed no higher than 94 degrees. I have yet to read into the manual, so I'm not sure exactly what that means or how it is set.
To summarize, the bike is an 08 SM510R with powerup kit (arrow exhaust, 02 sensor hole plugged, throttle stop, race mode, air filter mod - remapped with ibeat), K&N air filter, and trail tech vapor. Everything else seems to be stock. When I bought the bike, it idled and ran fine. When I brought it home, it idled and ran fine. Last weekend, I had it idling for a good 15 minutes. A week later after putting fresh gas in and running it a little harder on the street, it seems to cut out on the idle. I need to slightly twist the throttle to bring the RPMs up to maintain idle. However, aside from this, the bike runs great and has been a blast so far. This model has the EFI so I'm not really sure how to make adjustments being that I don't have the ibeat software. Should I check my battery? Check all wire connections? Look in to a power commander? I'm hoping that somehow magically I will start it up tomorrow and idle fine but I know that probably won't happen. So looking for some ideas. Thank you very much.
I was away this week and couldn't get it registered until today. Once I got the plate, the first thing I did was go get some gas since I didn't really know how much was in it and I wanted to take it for a ride and not worry about running out. So I put in around 1.5 gallons of 93 grade to top off the tank. The previous owner mentioned he used 93 as well. I went back home, put my gear on and set out for my 17 mile loop. Before I went, I took the headlight plate off (4 rubber hooks that wrap around the fork tubes) to look at the wires coming out of the back of the Trail Tech Vapor (previous owner replaced faulty Husky dash with the Trail Tech) out of curiosity but I don't think anything got messed with or wires got disconnected. I also made sure that the radiator was full and that the reserve bottle was also about half full.
Once I got out on the road, all was great until I got to a long red light. The idle seemed to get slower and slower until the bike cut out. I restarted it and it fired right back up. But I had to keep the RPMs up a little bit while stopped, otherwise it would just happen again. Luckily I didn't encounter many more lights on the rest of the ride but I had to keep hit the throttle a little bit to prevent the bike from cutting out. It happened again when I was coming down a hill and I pulled in the clutch and rolled down the hill. Luckily I got it to start right back up right away.
Once I got home, I shut the bike off to let it cool down. Once it was cool, I tried to start it again, and it fired right up and idled for about 30 seconds and then died. So I got on the bike, started it, and slightly twisted the throttle to increase the RPMs to get it to keep running. Once I get going, it runs great. It just doesn't seem to want to idle, especially when cold. Another important thing to note is that on the trail tech vapor, there is a red light in the top right corner that comes on from time to time. The temperature reading on the display showed no higher than 94 degrees. I have yet to read into the manual, so I'm not sure exactly what that means or how it is set.
To summarize, the bike is an 08 SM510R with powerup kit (arrow exhaust, 02 sensor hole plugged, throttle stop, race mode, air filter mod - remapped with ibeat), K&N air filter, and trail tech vapor. Everything else seems to be stock. When I bought the bike, it idled and ran fine. When I brought it home, it idled and ran fine. Last weekend, I had it idling for a good 15 minutes. A week later after putting fresh gas in and running it a little harder on the street, it seems to cut out on the idle. I need to slightly twist the throttle to bring the RPMs up to maintain idle. However, aside from this, the bike runs great and has been a blast so far. This model has the EFI so I'm not really sure how to make adjustments being that I don't have the ibeat software. Should I check my battery? Check all wire connections? Look in to a power commander? I'm hoping that somehow magically I will start it up tomorrow and idle fine but I know that probably won't happen. So looking for some ideas. Thank you very much.
