My low speed idle went to crap after my engine build. So I take it back to the builder and he is gonna fix it. I am running a DFO on my bike and love it. So I pick it up last night and the fella that works for him said he had been tweeking the DFO all afternoon to get it to run correctly. So I says the DFO hasn't got anything to do with the low speed idle adjustment. Out of curiosity I take the side cover off the bike to look at the settings. The green is all the way off. I turn the bike on and the bike is idling at around 700 rpms. Anyways I reset the DFO settings to where I had them for the build he did for me. It took a bunch of experimenting with the build and the DFO to get it where I wanted it.
The dude that did the build comes out and goes berserk when he sees I set the DFO back to what I had the values at. I try to explain to him that the DFO is load based and has nothing to do with the idle adjustment of the bike. That there is a very specific procedure you need to go through with a scanalyzer attached to the computer of the bike to set the low speed idle especially after a build like this. If you don't have the scanalyzer or the equivalent you can't do the procedure and he pretty much wasted my time and his time. I even showed him a short cut that someone kindly put up on the site here for me of the HD tech bulletin of the procedure you need to go through to reset the voltage. He printed this out and I assumed he was going to follow this. The dealer I purchased the bike from that I talked to about the low speed idle problem said it takes a total of about an hour to do this procedure which includes the computer hook up etc. You can't reset the low speed idle without doing this if all else fails.
Well to make a long story short he endedup running into his garage and shutting the door so I couldn't get to him after words were exchanged.
So I am thinking to myself that well maybe I am being an asshole here and he is right about the DFO and the idle speed adjustment. So I take off on my scoot and the bike is surging and pinging like no tomorrow. I stopped on the side of the road and made the DFO adjustments I needed to make and took care of the surging and the pinging but not the low speed idle. Man I'll tell ya talk about frustration. He had one friend at the garage that insisted my DFO was an ignition timming device of some sort like on his scoot. Where you can advance the timming and throttle position through the pots. :stupid:
Now that I have this rant off my chest and I am not allowed back at the shop I will schedule and appointment with a good dyno tuner and the dealer to get the idle adjusted and the dyno tuner to dial in the timming and the fuel mixture. keepem sharp
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