• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

'10 TXC250 off idle different in gear vs neutral

JonXX

JonXX

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As the title suggests, my TXC250 (stock injector, JDTuner dialed in to my liking and the TPS zeroed out) runs off idle differently in neutral than it does in gear. In neutral, it rolls on no problem, whacks open no problem and never misses a beat. The moment that it's in gear, the slightest touch of the throttle and it's 50/50 that it'll take off or stall. Idle, no sweat. But try to take off smoothly and it may or may not take off. It doesn't seem to matter where I have the JD set for this. My workaround has been to keep it revved up out of the idle program to put it in gear and take off. I'm not fond of that...

There's a wire that runs up from behind the shifter, I assume it's the neutral sensor for the ECU, I have *not* yet traced it looking for a break or short. Is this a possible cause of this malady?

Other than this issue it runs tops and I'm tickled pink with it.
 
JonXX said:
There's a wire that runs up from behind the shifter, I assume it's the neutral sensor for the ECU, I have *not* yet traced it looking for a break or short. Is this a possible cause of this malady?
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I think you are right on the wire ... I think it got broke off my 08 TXC250 and it had no effect on my bike, if my memory is correct ...

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You are saying the bike dies even before you start engaging the clutch to more forward? I.E. - You are just sitting with the bike in gear, clutch disengaged, and you bib the throttle and the bike might die?
 
JonXX said:
There's a wire that runs up from behind the shifter, I assume it's the neutral sensor for the ECU, I have *not* yet traced it looking for a break or short. Is this a possible cause of this malady?
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The gear position sensor ("idle transponder assy") is able to know all 7 positions and sends that data to the ECU via different resistance values for each position.

Is it only 1st gear that it misbehaves, or does it also misbehave in 2nd gear?

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Problem solved by setting the idle speed even higher. I was warned that it might be hard to start, but it hasn't been yet.
 
JonXX said:
Problem solved by setting the idle speed even higher. I was warned that it might be hard to start, but it hasn't been yet.
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Good news on the fix!
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How has owning an EFI bike been for you and how many hrs on that bike?
 
Yeah I'm totally tickled with it now, I spent yesterday evening readjusting the JD more toward performance like it should be rather than being a partial workaround for this issue.

Generally speaking I'm not a huge fan of EFI; I can fix a carburetor with a rock and a stick if need be, and there are no sensory feedback elements to have to maintain (gear position, temp, throttle position - more sensors to fail). But the bike is snappy and I have faith in its reliability.

I don't *know* how many hours are on it, but I've got maybe 40-50 hours on it, and I suspect from conversations with the original owner that I've put roughly half of the bikes total hours on.
 
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