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I have been having probs wit my stock 06 America shutting down, as others I have seen. I go 5 mi and the motor will hiccup, and sometimes shuts down after a few more miles or more. I got caught in a downpour, my bike hiccupped and I ducked into a parking lot where my bike just died. So a couple hours later I went to start it and it fired right up. My right cylinder head was full of water around my plug, and I noticed bubbles coming up when it started. I have had probs getting the plugs in and out as I don't have a thin socket. I did take a torque wrench and snugged it up a little more, but not to the click. I know that affects my performance in some way, but what about my description? I'll take a link seeing as I was searchin and couldn't it. Thanks and Happy and safe 4th to y'all.

Take it on up till the Click for sure ...Put some seafoam in your Gas too.

And lightly grease the end 3 or 4 threads with a lightest coat of anti-seize you can. And if you still are running the air injection, you might consider buying a blank off kit and tossing the whole thing. You will find the sparkies a lot easier to deal with.

Get a thin wall socket.

The more I think about this........... I would Pop in some new plugs. Plugs cheap.

Where did you set your wrench to click?

Appreciate that link. I went to 20nm according to the torque specs I downloaded (Dinqua posted?) from the tech section. I'll look into a thin wall socket so I don't have to go thru this again. I believe the torque wrench helped me when I was rubbing that nicely placed bolt with a regular socket. Used both Seafoam and Lucas ethanol treatment, but I think I may have another culprit in the petcock. I know someone else posted on that, so Ima gonna looky for it and post there. Thanks all.