Goodman4
Pressing on
I just got back from a trip on the FJR riding around CO, NM, AZ and UT with my nephew on his S10. It's the first long trip of any kind I've taken on the FJR in 3 or more years. My wife and I were riding the wing on all our long trips before our accident a year ago and the MT10 replaced the twisty solo rides. But the FJR is now re-promoted to my touring bike.
To the point... I had an intermittent issue with the FJR that happened a few years ago. It was on a trip with the wife to MO and after an hour on the road on a hot day it started stumbling on the highway at about 70 mph. It did it a few times and I talked to my service guy and did some forum posts. The most likely culprits were determined to be bad gas or TPS. It seemed to get better so I wrote it off, but realistically I probably haven't ridden the FJR over an hour at a time since then. I have only gotten it out for short local rides until this trip, favoring the MT.
As soon as I had been on the bike an hour last week it started stumbling again. It feels like it's trying to buck me off. It stuttered so bad as I got into Springfield MO, that I had to start pulling over in traffic, but it recovered before I got stopped. I refreshed myself on the TPS issue and was able to twist the throttle a couple times out of gear and have the problem go away for a good while. I NOW know how to do the diagnostics and read the output from the TPS and look for deadspots, but didn't in the ride. I would just jerk the throttle and be good for another long while. It stumbled after an hour on the road near the 70 mph range in 5th every day except the last when we were on 550 where the temp was in the low 50's. Also we had a few stops in the mountains, so maybe we didn't go for an hour without stopping that day. It's never exact though. Another indicator - we were booking it for a long time on 98, 89 and 89A to the North Rim and NEVER had any stumbles with the throttle twisted higher. It only would try to buck me off at mid-throttle which I think indicates a corroded spot on the TPS. The only part that doesn't make sense is the 1 hour in when it's hot and doesn't do it until then.
When I had my service guy check it out three years ago, it didn't come up with errors, because he doesn't ride it an hour. My service guy is great but the guy at the service desk doesn't know what a TPS is and couldn't find the part in the book to give me a price (It's listed as Speed Sensor in the Yammi catalogue, not Throttle Position Sensor from what I can tell). From what I describe, do you feel it's worth me just telling him to order one and replace it? Or does the 1 hour / temp thing make you doubt the TPS?
I suppose I could get time in a couple weeks to ride an hour and be ready to do the diag right then on the road. What da ya think?
To the point... I had an intermittent issue with the FJR that happened a few years ago. It was on a trip with the wife to MO and after an hour on the road on a hot day it started stumbling on the highway at about 70 mph. It did it a few times and I talked to my service guy and did some forum posts. The most likely culprits were determined to be bad gas or TPS. It seemed to get better so I wrote it off, but realistically I probably haven't ridden the FJR over an hour at a time since then. I have only gotten it out for short local rides until this trip, favoring the MT.
As soon as I had been on the bike an hour last week it started stumbling again. It feels like it's trying to buck me off. It stuttered so bad as I got into Springfield MO, that I had to start pulling over in traffic, but it recovered before I got stopped. I refreshed myself on the TPS issue and was able to twist the throttle a couple times out of gear and have the problem go away for a good while. I NOW know how to do the diagnostics and read the output from the TPS and look for deadspots, but didn't in the ride. I would just jerk the throttle and be good for another long while. It stumbled after an hour on the road near the 70 mph range in 5th every day except the last when we were on 550 where the temp was in the low 50's. Also we had a few stops in the mountains, so maybe we didn't go for an hour without stopping that day. It's never exact though. Another indicator - we were booking it for a long time on 98, 89 and 89A to the North Rim and NEVER had any stumbles with the throttle twisted higher. It only would try to buck me off at mid-throttle which I think indicates a corroded spot on the TPS. The only part that doesn't make sense is the 1 hour in when it's hot and doesn't do it until then.
When I had my service guy check it out three years ago, it didn't come up with errors, because he doesn't ride it an hour. My service guy is great but the guy at the service desk doesn't know what a TPS is and couldn't find the part in the book to give me a price (It's listed as Speed Sensor in the Yammi catalogue, not Throttle Position Sensor from what I can tell). From what I describe, do you feel it's worth me just telling him to order one and replace it? Or does the 1 hour / temp thing make you doubt the TPS?
I suppose I could get time in a couple weeks to ride an hour and be ready to do the diag right then on the road. What da ya think?
to take a long ride on a warm day and get the problem to appear then stop immediately and go through the diag process above. I won't take it to the shop until I have seen this problem in the diag.
