F4i sputtered then died
She's been running just fine, has less than 8000 miles on her. On the way home tonight, she started sputtering a couple blocks from home. A few seconds later the engine stopped running. The electrical stayed on, I coasted for a block then ran out of momentum coming up the hill to my home. After I came to a stop, I turned off the ignition, turned it back on then she started right up. I rode her the rest of the way home and shut her off once in my garage.
I'm guessing the issue is fuel related since I had enough juice to restart the bike. She only has less than 8k miles so I didn't think I needed to change the fuel filter or plugs yet. I can't say for sure but I could swear I've noticed some yellow blinking coming from the FI light while riding now and then but by the time I look back down, everything is good; no FI light on. Perhaps it's the Erion mapping? I've been holding off on a custom map. History: -Power Commander 1000 miles ago but changed to Erion mapping 100 miles ago -Removed O2 sensor, used resistor trick to fool FI sensor 1000 miles ago -Delkevic Slip-on exhaust 1000 miles ago -Changed CCTL around 2000 miles ago |
After searching some more, seems like the issue may be caused by a bad Fuel Pressure Regulator?
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with so few many miles it would be hard to determine the cause, could be multiple things.. the map, fpr, voltage regulator... i would start with checking the regulator as mine did the same thing when the regulator went out on me. check the voltage at 5k rpm and then go from there..
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You sure you're not just out of gas? My reserve fuel indicator doesn't read very accurately so this happened to me one time. had 3/4 bars left and it started sputtering so I had to push it into a Taco Bell parking lot. But if you went very far at all after it shut down this probably isn't the case.
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Originally Posted by Congee
(Post 1273120)
After searching some more, seems like the issue may be caused by a bad Fuel Pressure Regulator?
Fi light should be red? |
Thanks for the suggestions folks. Definitely has fuel, I fill up at home with gas cans, I think the gas is OK as I've already run 5 gallons of the stuff. Although the symptoms were as if I had run out of fuel (ie. everything is running just fine then it felt like she was starving for fuel, a slight bog then dead.).
No FI light is on whatsoever after the she's started up. I just finished checking the FPR and there's no fuel coming out of the vacuum side of the FPR so now it doesn't seem like that's the problem either. I also took a sniff around my motor oil cap and it didn't smell like gas either. Perhaps it's the PC map? I'm about to check electrical charging system with my multi-meter... |
check map and also check voltage from regulator and possibly stator
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