Good Morning Guys,
I was excited to see an R1 forum, but I wish I didnt have to come here to post my problem. So bear with me..
Let me start by saying I keep my bike in my garage, I ride maybe 2-3 times a month. I take extremely good care of my bike, I dont wheelie/stoppie/push the bike to its limits. I have the Cherry/Black model in almost mint condition, full akrapovic exhaust, power commander, otherwise its all stock. I'm the third owner and the bike just hit 20K miles.
In August I started to have issues starting the bike. I replaced the battery under warranty at Cyclegear where they gave me in return a $200 battery so I was happy. Turns out my starter was bad. My Dad and I replaced the starter with an OEM Yamaha starter and I was very happy because I saved $300-500 doing this myself. The same day I changed the oil, after I put the new filter and oil in the bike it had this really strange idle issue. I noticed that I put too much oil in the bike so I drained a little at a time to get it halfway in the sight glass. So, after that I rode the bike and at a stoplight the rpm would jump from 1000 up to 1300rpm and then back down to 1000. This never happened before the starter change the bike would idle perfectly at 1k.
Took the motorcycle to a local shop, they changed plugs with NGK iridium, coolant flush, and said after they removed the power commander that the misfire went away. I paid and got the bike yesterday but after 35 minutes of riding the misfire came back. The shop says they dont know how to fix it and recommend that I go put it on a dyno and let them monitor rpm/look at the ecu. I dont know enough about this subject to know if thats the next step I should take. Spending $457.00 on this to have them not fix the issue has me pretty mad.
Do you guys have any idea what the hell would be causing this? The shop also checked all of the connections under the tank, checked seals and all that. The shop just texted me what it "COULD" be.
Valve adjustment, ECU, Fuel injector, throttle body, or wiring harness. There isn't an engine light and no codes are being thrown. My brother is a diesel mechanic and thought it might be a vaccuum leak. I also took video of the rpm's jumping if anyone wants to see it I can post a link.
Something else I should mention is the relay that controls the integrated sequential tailights/turn signals keeps going bad. I'm pretty sure there is some electrical short somewhere. All of the fuses are good though and I dont see any broken/bad wires under the seat or near that module. Maybe thats a separate issue.
Thanks for the help ahead of time!
I was excited to see an R1 forum, but I wish I didnt have to come here to post my problem. So bear with me..
Let me start by saying I keep my bike in my garage, I ride maybe 2-3 times a month. I take extremely good care of my bike, I dont wheelie/stoppie/push the bike to its limits. I have the Cherry/Black model in almost mint condition, full akrapovic exhaust, power commander, otherwise its all stock. I'm the third owner and the bike just hit 20K miles.
In August I started to have issues starting the bike. I replaced the battery under warranty at Cyclegear where they gave me in return a $200 battery so I was happy. Turns out my starter was bad. My Dad and I replaced the starter with an OEM Yamaha starter and I was very happy because I saved $300-500 doing this myself. The same day I changed the oil, after I put the new filter and oil in the bike it had this really strange idle issue. I noticed that I put too much oil in the bike so I drained a little at a time to get it halfway in the sight glass. So, after that I rode the bike and at a stoplight the rpm would jump from 1000 up to 1300rpm and then back down to 1000. This never happened before the starter change the bike would idle perfectly at 1k.
Took the motorcycle to a local shop, they changed plugs with NGK iridium, coolant flush, and said after they removed the power commander that the misfire went away. I paid and got the bike yesterday but after 35 minutes of riding the misfire came back. The shop says they dont know how to fix it and recommend that I go put it on a dyno and let them monitor rpm/look at the ecu. I dont know enough about this subject to know if thats the next step I should take. Spending $457.00 on this to have them not fix the issue has me pretty mad.
Do you guys have any idea what the hell would be causing this? The shop also checked all of the connections under the tank, checked seals and all that. The shop just texted me what it "COULD" be.
Valve adjustment, ECU, Fuel injector, throttle body, or wiring harness. There isn't an engine light and no codes are being thrown. My brother is a diesel mechanic and thought it might be a vaccuum leak. I also took video of the rpm's jumping if anyone wants to see it I can post a link.
Something else I should mention is the relay that controls the integrated sequential tailights/turn signals keeps going bad. I'm pretty sure there is some electrical short somewhere. All of the fuses are good though and I dont see any broken/bad wires under the seat or near that module. Maybe thats a separate issue.
Thanks for the help ahead of time!