• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

PCV installed - now FAIL message

Tom H

Tom H

Husqvarna
B Class
Guys, I have a 2011 SMR 511 with just over 2000km on the clock and have just installed a Power Commander V. And therein lies the problem.

So I attached all the wires and plugs etc and was preparing to reassemble all the panels and decided I better fire it up to check it worked before I put fairing on and had to potentially take them off again. So I started it and it ran with what sounds like a little bit of a high idle. I turned it off and then heard a noise. Ill try and explain what the part is as I dont know the name.

So on the right hand side of the bike there is a large black contraption that you have to undo 2x 8mm bolts to get off. It sits on top of a rod and it clearly turns it when the bike is on... to control butterflies maybe? Thats where it looks like it goes. Anyway, after turning the bike off this thing (which I had not re-attached because I was distracted) started going mental and cycling and making a clicking noise. I had to disconnect that battery to make it stop.

So I reattached it and then started it again and it definately is running a high idle. It also displays a fail message.

Does anyone know what this is? I have searched for high idles, PCV and fail message on this site and cant find any answers. I get the impression it is a quick fix which is why I havent disconnect the PCV yet.

Can anybody help??
 
OK, so the answer to my journey of self discovery for anyone this has happened to...

What was wrong was the cover and controller for the part of the throttle body that controls the butterfly position. If, for some reason, you take it off and then you cant get it back on again - or remember its position you need to set the butterfly to fully closed by twisting the controller anti-clockwise. Then, using some kind of tool, you need to turn the controller fully clockwise (to match the closed position of the butterfly). If you try and put it on now, it wont work. What you have to do is turn the controller clockwise from this position in increments until it slides back on to the throttle body.

It will then run at the correct idle again. You may have to reset the TPS.
 
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