I recently had an issue with my bike having a dead miss (one of the cylinders wasn't firing). I replaced all the spark plugs and it rode fine for a couple hundred miles (only thing was the idle jumped around a bit) but yesterday I took it up to the mountains, it did fine, but on the way back it felt and sounded like it had the same problem as before. When taking off from a stop is when I really noticed it, once up to speed to seemed to be acting normal (we were doin 90mph+ trying to outrun a storm... no problem with the bike)
It didn't always do it though, sometimes it felt OK. I just got back from a short ride to see how it would do and it did fine too. Whats going on here?
Also, I wanted to run some injector cleaner through it (don't know if this could be the problem but it couldn't hurt, right?) and was wondering can I use the same stuff for a car or do I need something for a motorcycle specifically? Any recommendations?
The bike running normally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erlXH-tUMqY
The bike when it had a dead miss (and how it sometimes sounds/acts now):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-gMeFeO8iM
The bike & idle after I replaced the spark plugs (after the video above):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVPKAELs4pY
Thanks!
It didn't always do it though, sometimes it felt OK. I just got back from a short ride to see how it would do and it did fine too. Whats going on here?
Also, I wanted to run some injector cleaner through it (don't know if this could be the problem but it couldn't hurt, right?) and was wondering can I use the same stuff for a car or do I need something for a motorcycle specifically? Any recommendations?
The bike running normally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erlXH-tUMqY
The bike when it had a dead miss (and how it sometimes sounds/acts now):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-gMeFeO8iM
The bike & idle after I replaced the spark plugs (after the video above):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVPKAELs4pY
Thanks!