Cruise control issue

 

Drinks all around as you mull this over.

On the road, not much time to fool around with the bike.

Symptom: Was working fine ('07 Ultra Classic),
engaging/accelerating/decel just fine. Canceled it through town, got
back up to speed manually. Set the speed, bump the switch to the left to
increase just a tad and it took off on me like it was stuck open.
Canceled it and it wouldn't set at all any more after that. Red light on
the gauge is on.


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Fins BS#221 AH#135
2007 FLHTCU
..-. -.-- -.-- ..-. ..-.

 



Your cruise is always accelerating and decelerating though. <sfsf>

Sounds like the toggle switch has made permanent contact in the
increase/resume position.

--
Bob Mann

Cap'n, ah need moor pow'r.

 



I hate it when the thumb screw does that... Oh, wait!
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Curly LaJolla AH#117 BS#107
2004 FLHTPI Cop Bike
The party never ends!

 

Curly LaJolla wrote:

I took off one day and the throttle got stuck. I had to force it closed.
Seemed like it was gummed up. Stupid manual throttle lock. Wasn't fully
disengaged.

First lawnmower I bought had a safety brake on the motor. Used it all
summer. Winter came, Spring came, then Summer. I went out to start it and it
was pulling really hard, so I started checking this and that. Piston was
moving free enough so I pulled the starter pulley to see if there was
something inside causing a problem. Guess what I found?

There was this big brake liner looking thing wrapped around the inner
pulley. It had a cable on it that I followed up to the handlebar.

I'm a stupid fuck. Pulled up on the brake handle, one pull of the rope, and
away I went.
--
Steve Paul
'93 FXRS-C "Mule"
EKIII '09

 

Steve Paul wrote:

First, safety features like that are meant to be removed from new
equipment the minute you bring it home and before you start it the first
time. The factories are kind enough to point out all the unnecessary
accessories you need to remove by identifying them with stickers and
labels. They mark the labels with humorous instructions like "Do Not
Remove" and funny pictures of stick men with missing fingers. (Who said
assembly workers don't have a sense of humor?)

Regardless of the existence or non-existence of safety features on your
mower, you shouldn't have been so inquisitive. Looking for the problem
allowed you to find it, and hence...you had to mow the lawn. Learn to
give up much sooner. If a mower doesn't start after the first couple of
pulls you simply mumble to yourself, "Damn mower is broken!" and retire
to the patio and drink a beer. When your wife comes out and asks why you
aren't mowing the lawn, ignore her. (Men don't *ever* answer their wives
the first time.) When she asks you the second time just belch and say,
"Damn mower is broken." She'll inquire, "Can you fix it?" (Don't answer,
of course.) The second time she asks, you reply, "Nope. Damn mower is
broken." After a short pause you hold up your empty beer can and say,
"Go get me another one." Your wife teasingly replies with a cute little
voice and says, "What do you say?" You respond with authority, "Now!"

That was today's lesson on mowers, wives and beer.

Andy aka Big Stinkie BS#252 SLOB#3