Aprilia Futura
The paperwork finally arrived earlier this month and we went out to Hermosa Beach to pick up the bike.
The bike was in the drive way and an easy access.
When we installed the ramps on the truck and tried the bike on the bottom of the ramps, the angle was too steep for comfort,
So rather than inconvenience the seller by fooling around turning the truck around and putting the ramps on from the top of the drive down hill, Rick opted to ride the bike home.
Here it is safely back at Rick's house.
The EFI light was on all the way back but did not prevent it from pulling hard.
On this bike you can read the fault codes on the instrument display by shorting out two wires under the seat.
A quick check of the fault code #34 showed it to be a a problem with #2 coil.
There are two spark plugs and two coils per cylinder.
Rick ordered a new coil and plug wire.
Once they were changed the EFI light went out.
The previous owner had installed an after market exhaust which was a hair on the loud side for Ricks taste or more to the point his neighbors taste.
He found a stock muffler on line and had a couple of adapters welded to it. The stock headers and the after market headers were different sizes.
Unfortunately the adapters did not fit either.
We needed to make a filler ring about 0.060" wall thickness to fill the gap.
Once completed we cut off the excess length and used that to make the second ring.
Using the propane torch to heat the brass also heats the vise grips, ouch!
Hind sight being a very exact science, we should have got a piece of aluminum and machined two rings.
However...
Once the rings were installed in the muffler, we used the pipe nipple as an expander to make the rings fit the inside diameter of the muffler fitting.
The muffler was installed but without some pushing, pulling and a little persuasion.
With that done we started the bike up to check the sound and it was noticeably quieter.
On the way over to my house from his house, Rick saw the EFI light come on again.
Another check of the codes showed this to be a fault #36 a problem with a different coil.
When we checked that coil, we found that the plug wire was burned through.
We made up a replacement with some HT wire we had in stock at Sheddington.
Not pretty but enough to last until the replacement shows up..
It takes a little driving around for the system to reset. On the way home the EFI light went out, it is still an intermittent problem, but as I said good enough to last a while.
The underlying issue is that the rearmost coil wire can slide down on to the exhaust right where it leaves the cylinder. We will need to address that and a couple of other issues next time around.
Rick rides off into the sunset, well he rides home which is in that general direction.
When we installed the ramps on the truck and tried the bike on the bottom of the ramps, the angle was too steep for comfort,
So rather than inconvenience the seller by fooling around turning the truck around and putting the ramps on from the top of the drive down hill, Rick opted to ride the bike home.
Here it is safely back at Rick's house.
The EFI light was on all the way back but did not prevent it from pulling hard.
On this bike you can read the fault codes on the instrument display by shorting out two wires under the seat.
A quick check of the fault code #34 showed it to be a a problem with #2 coil.
There are two spark plugs and two coils per cylinder.
Rick ordered a new coil and plug wire.
Once they were changed the EFI light went out.
The previous owner had installed an after market exhaust which was a hair on the loud side for Ricks taste or more to the point his neighbors taste.
Unfortunately the adapters did not fit either.
We needed to make a filler ring about 0.060" wall thickness to fill the gap.
We took a piece of brass strip and rolled it around a pipe nipple to form a ring.
Once completed we cut off the excess length and used that to make the second ring.
Using the propane torch to heat the brass also heats the vise grips, ouch!
Hind sight being a very exact science, we should have got a piece of aluminum and machined two rings.
However...
Once the rings were installed in the muffler, we used the pipe nipple as an expander to make the rings fit the inside diameter of the muffler fitting.
The muffler was installed but without some pushing, pulling and a little persuasion.
With that done we started the bike up to check the sound and it was noticeably quieter.
On the way over to my house from his house, Rick saw the EFI light come on again.
Another check of the codes showed this to be a fault #36 a problem with a different coil.
When we checked that coil, we found that the plug wire was burned through.
We made up a replacement with some HT wire we had in stock at Sheddington.
Not pretty but enough to last until the replacement shows up..
It takes a little driving around for the system to reset. On the way home the EFI light went out, it is still an intermittent problem, but as I said good enough to last a while.
The underlying issue is that the rearmost coil wire can slide down on to the exhaust right where it leaves the cylinder. We will need to address that and a couple of other issues next time around.
Rick rides off into the sunset, well he rides home which is in that general direction.
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