Idle Problem

[nomad72]

First i am running the caddman mod with a pc3 that was dyna tuned. I removed the idle solinoids. (no clue how to spell solinoid).

Last night I removed the air cleaners and cleaned / oiled them.
Let them sit a couple hours to dry then installed them back on the bike. Thats all I did.

I never have to pull the fast idle knob to start and warm up the nad. I tried starting the bike no fire. I pulled the knob and the bike started like normal. After the bike warmed up I pushed the knob back in and it died. Did this several times. Hooked up the laptop and everything looked good. Changed the map. Problem still there. Removed the filter no change. Put the map back to my custom map. Pulled the knob out a 1/4 of the way. 800 rpm was running like normal. I tried adjusting the idle screw no knob with no change at all.

So off we went with the knob a 1/4 out. After got home an hour later tried starting thew bike with the knob in. No issue at all. Bike is acting normal.

Anyone have any ideas that might have caused this. Very weird.

Thank you
Jeff

[ringadingh]

Im thinking it may have sucked in a bit of oil from the filter and caused it to not idle. After a good run it cleared irself of any excess oil that was in the filter.
You should clean your throttle body with carb cleaner and a old toothbrush once or twice a season, this will help with the idle and your fuel mileage.

[krash]

Originally Posted by Ringadingh

Im thinking it may have sucked in a bit of oil from the filter and caused it to not idle. After a good run it cleared irself of any excess oil that was in the filter.
You should clean your throttle body with carb cleaner and a old toothbrush once or twice a season, this will help with the idle and your fuel mileage.

I would also use the seafoam treatment, again once or twice a season does it for me.

[macmac]

Check the plastic caps where the ISC idle solenoids went before. Make sure these are in place and tight. On top of the throttle body if you took off the vac pod there is a port with either a cap or the oem tubing still, make sure it is capped off or both ends of that hose are tight.

This says vac leak to me since you found the black knob rather uselss..

[AlabamaNomadRider]

I was going to suggest the throttle body cleaning but Steve beat me to it. Nothing like a good ride to clean things up.

When I owned my '70 GTO years ago I could ride around in Philadelphi, PA for a week and not really open it up any at all. It would start to run like crap. Then on the weekend I would get out on the interstate and really run it hard and it would puff out a lot of smoke and crap. After that it would run great. Sometimes you just have to open them up and run em hard to clean them out.

[nomad72]

Mac
I checked the caps on the tubes and one was very loose. I put a dab of silicone on the outside and slip the cap back over. Hopefully that was the culprit. I also use seafoam in the fuel a couple times a season.

Thanks guys for the input.

Jeff

[macmac]

Get new caps at Sanels AKA Parts Plus. best caps cheap, and replace them all or check once a year. If and when you get up this way do make a point to drop in.