buellstorm
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I've only posted a few times before, and what I've got now is a bit of a mouthful, so please bear with me. If you read to the end, kudos. I'd skim to the issue I'm having if you don't want the whole dang story.
6/2/11 Riding on my way to a remote hospital to do some work and I'm just about there in a 55mph zone when this 19 yr old girl pulls directly out in front of me. Hospital, surgeries, etc. Anyhow, fast forward a bit. That winter, since I decided to buy the carcass back from the insurance company, I decide I'm not going to let this get me down and I started rebuilding her. All winter long, I spend $$$ up the ass to get this bike road worthy again. I had the frame repaired and powder coated. New tires, wheels powder coated. Painted her myself glossy black (I'm a computer nerd by trade, so this was tough for me). All in all, I spent north of 50 hours rebuilding this bi*ch. Last August, I put the finishing touches on her and left for my annual road trip across the pond (from Michigan) to Wisconsin and up through northern WI into the U.P. of MI and back home. Unfortunately, I got to Appleton WI and broke down. The bike kept stalling, engine light, etc. Luckily, one of the guys I was riding with brought his Mac and an ECM Spy cable (before haters hate, he's got boot camp with a Win7 partition). The Report was devastating - Engine Temp Sensor (ETS). Devastating because the closest one was 3 hours away in downtown chi-town. A straggler was just happening to be coming through Chicago during all of this and stopped to pick it up (what a friggin saint). So, he got into Appleton, we swapped the ETS (1/2 inch deep well socket dremelled to accordance for those who know). I reset the TPS, tuned the idle to 5.5ish and we hit the road the next day. Next day, we get just outside of Appleton when the CEL starts flashing at me whenever I get below 2k RPM. ECMSpy displays Error Code 13, Sensor Always running lean. From there, I shut her down, begged, borrowed, and stole my way back home over the course of a few days, with bike in hand. I'll tell you, some folks are just the most outgoing and generous folks to ever walk the Earth, I'm still paying this forward. I would also like to point out that had some of those rude m-effers actually stopped instead of yelling profanities to "Buy American" I wouldn't be so jaded to striking up conversations with complete strangers now. That's a whole other story though. I get it home, I replace the O2 sensor, test run, CEL, Error code 13. By now, it's like October (I was stuck in a rolling 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift job with the hospital in September) and it's starting to get too cold to ride. No worries, I have all winter to work on it, right? Wrong, we have a new little girl born on 10/19/12. I didn't get to the garage 1 time this past winter. She's perfect, so I'm ok with not getting in the garage. Ok, now to the *actual* issue. Today, after months of dinking with grounding and checking on crap without taking a single test run, I go out tonight and guess what, Error code mother-effing-13.
Here are the changes:
1. Powder coat frame
2. Powder coat wheels (not relevant, but for documentation sake, it's here)
3. New ETS (Engine Temp Sensor)
4. New O2 Sensor
5. LED conversion for blinkers
6. New coil
7. Relocated license plate
8. ****New Ground from battery ground terminal to engine ground under filter*****
9. New tires (again, not relevant but these diablo rosso's are effing awesome)
10. Complete paint job
11. Had exhaust fixed (welding shop cut out the dent and replace with stainless steel piece)
12. Wrapped exhaust
13. D&D Exhaust (was there when I bought the bike, not really a replacement, now I'm just throwing anything out there)
14. New bars,
15. New levers
16. Quite a few other cosmetic things that you probably don't give a rats-a** about.
So, here's where we are. Still throwing the code and I am completely stumped. Not to mention, really, REALLY frustrated at this point. Any relevant advice is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
6/2/11 Riding on my way to a remote hospital to do some work and I'm just about there in a 55mph zone when this 19 yr old girl pulls directly out in front of me. Hospital, surgeries, etc. Anyhow, fast forward a bit. That winter, since I decided to buy the carcass back from the insurance company, I decide I'm not going to let this get me down and I started rebuilding her. All winter long, I spend $$$ up the ass to get this bike road worthy again. I had the frame repaired and powder coated. New tires, wheels powder coated. Painted her myself glossy black (I'm a computer nerd by trade, so this was tough for me). All in all, I spent north of 50 hours rebuilding this bi*ch. Last August, I put the finishing touches on her and left for my annual road trip across the pond (from Michigan) to Wisconsin and up through northern WI into the U.P. of MI and back home. Unfortunately, I got to Appleton WI and broke down. The bike kept stalling, engine light, etc. Luckily, one of the guys I was riding with brought his Mac and an ECM Spy cable (before haters hate, he's got boot camp with a Win7 partition). The Report was devastating - Engine Temp Sensor (ETS). Devastating because the closest one was 3 hours away in downtown chi-town. A straggler was just happening to be coming through Chicago during all of this and stopped to pick it up (what a friggin saint). So, he got into Appleton, we swapped the ETS (1/2 inch deep well socket dremelled to accordance for those who know). I reset the TPS, tuned the idle to 5.5ish and we hit the road the next day. Next day, we get just outside of Appleton when the CEL starts flashing at me whenever I get below 2k RPM. ECMSpy displays Error Code 13, Sensor Always running lean. From there, I shut her down, begged, borrowed, and stole my way back home over the course of a few days, with bike in hand. I'll tell you, some folks are just the most outgoing and generous folks to ever walk the Earth, I'm still paying this forward. I would also like to point out that had some of those rude m-effers actually stopped instead of yelling profanities to "Buy American" I wouldn't be so jaded to striking up conversations with complete strangers now. That's a whole other story though. I get it home, I replace the O2 sensor, test run, CEL, Error code 13. By now, it's like October (I was stuck in a rolling 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift job with the hospital in September) and it's starting to get too cold to ride. No worries, I have all winter to work on it, right? Wrong, we have a new little girl born on 10/19/12. I didn't get to the garage 1 time this past winter. She's perfect, so I'm ok with not getting in the garage. Ok, now to the *actual* issue. Today, after months of dinking with grounding and checking on crap without taking a single test run, I go out tonight and guess what, Error code mother-effing-13.
Here are the changes:
1. Powder coat frame
2. Powder coat wheels (not relevant, but for documentation sake, it's here)
3. New ETS (Engine Temp Sensor)
4. New O2 Sensor
5. LED conversion for blinkers
6. New coil
7. Relocated license plate
8. ****New Ground from battery ground terminal to engine ground under filter*****
9. New tires (again, not relevant but these diablo rosso's are effing awesome)
10. Complete paint job
11. Had exhaust fixed (welding shop cut out the dent and replace with stainless steel piece)
12. Wrapped exhaust
13. D&D Exhaust (was there when I bought the bike, not really a replacement, now I'm just throwing anything out there)
14. New bars,
15. New levers
16. Quite a few other cosmetic things that you probably don't give a rats-a** about.
So, here's where we are. Still throwing the code and I am completely stumped. Not to mention, really, REALLY frustrated at this point. Any relevant advice is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
