is it just missing or, what is wrong with it?

[ionbeam]

Just a repeat here, please do consider:

Also, with so few miles on the FJR over the years I would highly recommend running a few tanks with a fuel system cleaner like Techron, Yamaha Ring Free or Sea Foam.

ride more??? HA HA HA I ride it every day to work!!! ride more?

Why yes! I also ride to work every day that there isn't ice/snow/salt but that doesn't get in the way of riding on the weekends. How you ride so much and have so few miles? Many of us NERDS are at the 100k mile mark with newer FJRs.

 

[Semper Fi]

Well if you look at the amount of miles on it when I bought it, 12,000 miles, to what is on it now, 21,000 miles, you would see that it doesn't just sit around. If it is not raining, snowing, or colder that 33 degrees, I am riding! SO, if you can help, instead of trying to pick on or embarrass me, please do. I do not want to get into a battle with any of you guys, I have been there once before on this site and do not want to go back. I thought this was a place to come if you had a problem, question, comment, or picture. I hope I am not wrong!!

Yes I have ran many cans or bottles of injector cleaner through my bike, to include Sea Foam!

 

[ionbeam]

Well if you look at the amount of miles on it when I bought it, 12,000 miles, to what is on it now, 21,000 miles, you would see that it doesn't just sit around. If it is not raining, snowing, or colder that 33 degrees, I am riding! SO, if you can help, instead of trying to pick on or embarrass me, please do. I do not want to get into a battle with any of you guys, I have been there once before on this site and do not want to go back. I thought this was a place to come if you had a problem, question, comment, or picture. I hope I am not wrong!!
Yes I have ran many cans or bottles of injector cleaner through my bike, to include Sea Foam!

Yikes! I would say that was not and never was my intention. The more complete the information from *anyone* writing to the Forum the easier it will be to offer more relevant help. That last bit was useful information.

 

[kamal]

Not sure if this will help?

First, my '04 runs as close to perfect as I can expect. Cold starts at 2000rpm then drops to rock-solid 1100 idle. Blanking off the PAIR system shortly after acquiring the bike cured a popping in the aftermarket cans on deceleration.

Back in July I rode to Montana. Shortly after crossing into the US I filled up with 87 octane (min 10% Ethanol), the bike ran fine but next morning was hard to start with a crappy idle. I put it down to moisture in the gas and added a bottle of fuel conditioner. To cut a long story short, the bike ran OK but had an annoying 'popping' at low rpm. As soon as I re-entered Canada, I topped up with 'pure' 87, that evening I filled up. Next morning it started and idled perfectly.

Last week I rode down to Tacoma and again filled up in the US, exactly the same problem and cure.

What's my point? Could this problem be fuel quality related?

 

[RadioHowie]

Just to throw my 2 cents in, my '04 sounds exactly like that until the temp gauge hits two bars showing, then it smooths right out. Yours sounds like a "cold engine" misfire. Can't explain why it's doing it after it's warmed up,though.

 

[bluesdog]

Have you done the unauthorized TBS as detailed by Fred W? I highly recommend it.

All injector cleaners are not created equal. There's a post somewhere listing the ones suggested for FI bikes, but iirc, seafoam is pretty good, techron is better, and, (believe it or not), Yamaha ring-free seems to be the best, imo. I use it every oil change.

Have you eliminated/blocked off the PAIR system? I believe this may be relevant to many of the FJR's fueling idiosyncrasies.

Which throttle body sensor did the dealer suggest needed replacing?

Have you checked for any diagnostic codes? If, for example, the air intake temp sensor wire is pinched by the air cleaner cover plastic, it can result in false readings being sent to the ECU. damhik.

Also, despite running injector cleaner, one or more of the injectors may be misbehaving, or partially clogged. Last spring one of my injectors managed to get some gum or something, and the bike ran like crap until I had the injectors professionally cleaned. (The symptoms were more severe than just an occasional hiccup, however!)

I'd check the simple stuff first: unauthorized TBS; PAIR block off; Diag codes etc, before I delved into more demanding stuff like the injectors.

Good luck, and keep us posted.

 

[Afast03nNJ]

I'm going to say the Sync outlined in the above link will make that bike run 100000000000x smoother.

And I'm surprised that nobody caught the fact that it's not an 03 as the OP said?? No blue in 03, only silver.

 

[Semper Fi]

I'm going to say the Sync outlined in the above link will make that bike run 100000000000x smoother.
And I'm surprised that nobody caught the fact that it's not an 03 as the OP said?? No blue in 03, only silver.

I, as the OP, am surprised that YOU did not read all of what the OP has written! I said I have painted the bike this year in the spring. Yes you are correct that, there was only silver bikes in 2003.

 

[RadioHowie]

 

[Afast03nNJ]

I'm going to say the Sync outlined in the above link will make that bike run 100000000000x smoother.
And I'm surprised that nobody caught the fact that it's not an 03 as the OP said?? No blue in 03, only silver.

I, as the OP, am surprised that YOU did not read all of what the OP has written! I said I have painted the bike this year in the spring. Yes you are correct that, there was only silver bikes in 2003.

My bad, missed that!

 

[lnewlf]

I ride to work 3 times/week..lotta city time, and the mill seems to get lumpy..I use RingFree every other tank..

I highly recommend and the FJR loves a couple of trips thru the first three cogs at redline, weekly.

You're gonna need a lot of safe [ phuz free] road.

Cleans out the bike and also the adrenals.

 

[Toter]

I have an 06 (Fastest of the Blue's)

. I bought it new and have about 17,500 mi. on it. It has always had that pop/miss/hiccup at idle cold or warm since new. I recently ran a tank full of gas with Seafoam thru it and it appears that the miss has disappeared. Not sure what the deal was, but I was pretty amazed that it disappeared. Kind of just accepted it as an

idiosyncrasy of the breed. I saw where you said you hve run injector cleaner thru yours with no change. Don't have an answer for you. I must have been lucky.

Ed

 

[Semper Fi]

I am sorry it has been so long to re-post on this but, I have replaced the sparkplugs at about 7000 miles (or somewhere close) and the bike seems to be running better. Could I have gotten a bad NKG sparkplug? Is there a way to test them to see if there was a bad plug among them?

 

[Fred W]

How did those old plugs look? It is unusual to have them acting up at such low mileage unless they are fouled somehow.

But at the paltry cost of NGK CR8E spark plugs ($3-4 ea?) why stress about troubleshooting it any further?