I’ve seen a few of these threads over the past 5 years on the igniter failing and thought to myself "I guess I got lucky with mine". Apparently my luck just ran out. I noticed some odd intermittent performance problems recently. Very brief in duration, those made me wonder if I had picked up some bad gas or the “hidden†filter was clogged. But today, it was much worse. Rode @ 30 miles and then had to pull over to answer a call. (My week in the IT Support rotation). I sat in a parking lot talking for @ 10 minutes. The bike started up hard, instead of very easy when it’s fully warmed up. Had next to no power initially, but then suddenly cleared up. I stopped at the store a couple of miles from home, and the same thing. This time it didn’t clear up. I had no choice but to try to nurse it the last 5 miles home. Luckily it cleared up after 5 minutes and just as I came to the 55 speed limit sign. Checked connections when I got home and everything seems good, but that right cylinder is not firing for (now) the first couple of minutes after I start it, and is getting more intermittent when running. Seems to match the symptoms in every igniter thread I’ve seen.
The timing of this just sucks. I'll pull the tank off to get the part # on the igniter and then order the ProComm tomorrow, but being Labor Day weekend, no one will see the order till Tuesday and the NE rally is 8 days after that. I am hoping they will be able to get it to me in time.
