What did you do with your ST1100/ST1300 today?

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AV8R said:
Wax who?
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Extended High Idle | ST1300 Related

My 2008 ST1300 with 50K miles on it has and extended high idle when cold. It will high idle past one bar till almost two bars are showing on the gauge. I have taken the coolant lines off and flushed the lines and wax valve. All are clear. I'm leaning towards a bad wax valve. Has anyone...
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wow.... my bike idles high when cold. I figured that’s good. My cars did this back in the old Buffalo NY blizzard days.

Extended High Idle | ST1300 Related

My 2008 ST1300 with 50K miles on it has and extended high idle when cold. It will high idle past one bar till almost two bars are showing on the gauge. I have taken the coolant lines off and flushed the lines and wax valve. All are clear. I'm leaning towards a bad wax valve. Has anyone...
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Repaired intermittent turn signal activation. Took switch apart and found some corrosion on the contacts. Cleaned the contacts and lubed the sliding internal contact track and contacts. Like new again.
 
Installed the Delkevic 17" Tri-ovals, then went for a spin around the peninsula.

The Delkevic's, in conjunction with the KN air filter and the BP, knocked my socks off.

No, not really.

Actually, ...my helmet visor blew closed on the first WOT application with the windshield retracted. :wave1::woohoo:

Am on cloud 9.

Mission success.
:run1: :wine2::thumb::usflag1:
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Cold start test failure, wax valve no help. So bought a vacuum gauge and set up the starting valve circuit. I dont know if this will fix the problem but it made a pretty big difference at warm idle. Found nothing wrong with any sensors yet. About 8 or so ounces on the fuel volume ,and a solid 50 psi fuel pressure.
 
AV8R said:
wow.... my bike idles high when cold. I figured that’s good. My cars did this back in the old Buffalo NY blizzard days.

Extended High Idle | ST1300 Related

My 2008 ST1300 with 50K miles on it has and extended high idle when cold. It will high idle past one bar till almost two bars are showing on the gauge. I have taken the coolant lines off and flushed the lines and wax valve. All are clear. I'm leaning towards a bad wax valve. Has anyone...
www.st-owners.com www.st-owners.com
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It's supposed to idle high when cold, not 5 grand high ,but high at about 2-2500. Then gradually lower as the engine heats up. If the idle remains high, then the wax valve is usually the culprit.
 
I made some valve stem supports for my rubber valve stems with TPMS screwed on top. These will hopefully help with the top heavy stems from getting fatigued and crack.
 

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turchris said:
New to me 2012, done over the last few days:

1) left and front tupperware off
2) installed Photon Blasters in front
3) replaced stock headlights with LEDs
4) hardwired the Garmin into the quartet harness
5) wired a Powerlet outlet from the quartet harness in place behind the left glovebox
6) replaced the stock horn with a FIAMM low-note
7) reinstalled the instrument panel after Bluegauges replaced the LEDs
8) reassembled everything, only to find that
9) somehow I lost the headlight knob- no flippin' idea where!
10) rode it for an hour at 32F just to make sure everything works and is tight.

I have to say that the posts in this forum were invaluable- there's no way I could have done this with just the Haynes manual. Many thanks to all you who have posted helpful stuff over the years!

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Which headlight bulbs did you go with?
 
bstig60 said:
It isn't advisable to use the stock rubber valve stems with TPMS sensors.
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True but that's because the weight of the sensors x vibration cps + rpm / time = leaky valve stem. Take vibration out of that equation and there's a different result completely acceptable.

I see Mkr64's mod as a completely reasonable solution virtually ending premature valve stem failure. Most of us replace motorcycle valve stems at tire change anyway (possibly prematurely as well).

But a big shout out to T-valves. As well as lasting far longer than rubber stems the convenience of not removing a sensor to fill a tire is really worth the time and money to swap them in at the next tire change.

bstig60 said:
Why did you have to install them upside down?
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I don't believe he 'had' to. He just managed to. And then fixed it.
 
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