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Offline haledakota

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Throttle body woes
« on: December 10, 2021, 01:15:01 PM »
95 k11 lt naked bike, relocated everything out of the triangle, airbox delete, muffler chopped for now.

Bike was running amazing, then during my escapades to move everything around I misaligned the TPS with some amount of pressure while relocating the motronic. Started bike, incredibly high idle. adjusted tps to readout .375 volts approx, now running rich, backfiring, cat glowing red if idle more than a couple minutes, plugs black and sooty on cylinder 1&2. injectors ohm out good, tps ohms out good.... now here is where i think i have a problem:

the choke shim when fully engaged does not touch the throttle shaft roller and my main throttle set screw does not seat on its brass seat on the inner rail. I cannot for the life of me find a hangup... if i remove the inner rail on the TB's and apply a little downward pressure to the main throttle my butterflys will close a bit more until my idle speed increases.

Me thinks its sticking open somehow somewhere and I cant find it. I have not touched any screws except the tps. I have a manometer and feeler gauges ready to do valve and synch but would like to achieve some semblance of decent idle and no backfire before I do that.


Can someone confirm the throttle main idle screw does indeed fully seat against the brass rivet/insert on the inner throttle body rail?

Any ideas on where to look for hangups?


Also, when I say I bumped TPS I more or less applied some constant pressure against the inside of it while trying to mount the ECU to the front face of the relay box. No hammers or whacky stuff.
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Offline haledakota

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Re: Throttle body woes
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2021, 01:18:33 PM »
I would like to add that I'm super grateful for this forum and I have searched pretty extensively, I apologize if this is covered somewhere.
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Offline haledakota

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Re: Throttle body woes
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2021, 01:32:31 PM »
okay im a dummy, i disconnnected the throttle cable at tB and it was indeed causing hangup, changed bar height with new bars and apparently this was enough to do it. SOLVED. Dont be a dummy like me and overlook the small easy stuff.
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Offline haledakota

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Re: Throttle body woes
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2021, 01:36:31 PM »
also, would like tho thanks frankenduck and johhnny, yall are amazing and your replies to the posts I have searched are incredibly knowledgeable and helpful. Johhnny youre a funny sob.
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Offline The Mighty Gryphon

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Re: Throttle body woes
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2021, 02:37:45 PM »
Welcome!  Good to know you got the problem solved!

You are not the first to have overlooked some really simple solution to a problem.  I personally know of someone who does that fairly regularly.
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Re: Throttle body woes
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2021, 12:24:34 PM »
 :welcome
I read everything I can on this forum and have learned a lot. Also forgotten a lot, but might be an age thing.
I always appreciate when the solution is posted to a problem that arises. Otherwise it's like reading a story with the last chapter missing.
If you can figure out how, post a picture of your bike.
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