Octane Booster

Buddy, I'm sorry to hear about your friend too much of that stuff happening. Things are getting so stupid this way with the cars that I don't ride around in town any more..just take the car. When I'm on the bike I'm getting out of town. Marc, you sure have had some tough luck with the bikes. The '09's are sweet. I had bought the extended warranty for my '04 and wound up getting the cam chain tensioners changed out before things got too bad..other than that it's been a great bike..best yet..[for issues] I still have a soft spot for the FXRS-Sp I had though. As far as gas goes I use premium mostly, I have the 95 inch big bore, stock cams stock exhaust SE air cleaner. If it's cool outside and I'm not pulling the trailer I can get by with regular with no pinging.

I always keep a can of seafoam on the bike
had some bad experience with gasstation
1JITSU1

I have had no problems with the PCIII at all, I had it installed when i put the V&H Big Shots on and have since removed the SE air filter and added the Arlen Ness Big Sucker, and removed the baffells that came in the Big Shots and now running Big City Thunder QC baffells and have never taken it back to be remapped, Its running just a bit on the rich side, hurt the gas mileage a little, but it cooled the bike down some.

your better offf getting a pciii or some type of fuel management you can fine tune and adjust to your own riding syle. those down loads are one of the biggest fluck jobs HD has to offer:devil:

I agree with SKULL, What they are talking about for 150.00 is to down load a program into your bikes puter, their program may have worked on another bike but may not work on yours. Its a lot cheaper going that way but may cause a lot of problems, or at least thats what i have been told. I had the dealer install the PCIII, Then they tuned it on the Dyno, so it has its own settings. Just make sure the Tech is good at whatever fuel management system you decide on, some like and are better with the PCIII and some like and are better with the SERT. Another one you might want to look at is the V&H Fuel Pak, You install and put the numbers in yourself from a list that comes with it, I ran one for a couple months but did not like thats when i went with the PCIII, One of the guys i ride with installed the FP on his and has had no problems, He is riding a 06 Wide Glide with V&H Big Radius.

I did the download when I went with the stage one big bore a few years back and aside from changing the fluids and tightening the odd bolt or two...[not including the work they did changing out the cam chain tensioners...and bearings under the extended warranty] the bike's run great. I didn't put it on the dynothen , still haven't..no need to.

FLHTbiker - You made me dig out my owner's manual and look at what HD recommends. My 98 FLHTCI manual recommends at least 87. When I hear pinging (usually summer months) I will fill with 89 but never 92. Does your manual really indicate to use 92? Just curious if things have changed since 1998 with respect to recommended fuel fill.

My 07 recommends 92 as well

boost

i'm a little confused.( a little?!!!) my friends have put 89 octane in their bikes and not complained. i know they would not chance hurting their bikes. well, maybe Rabbit. he's a gear head. anyway, my bike is a 2000 fxstb. i bought it with a 107 screaming eagle engine. it has an s&s carb, i don't know what cams, and i put 2.25 in. upswept drag pipes on it. it not only needs high octane, but very good high octane. i can't get consistant quality. in 93 or 89 octane with boost. it is a bitch to get some good fuel and have my bike run GREAT, then get some watered down crap and be embarassed when it grinds the starter to pieces, trying to start. my opinion is leave'em stock and run 92 octane.

hot starts

thanks hotrodking, my bike does have comp. releases. but i needed the extra advice on starts.i have a tester, just haven't tried a reading. the plugs look the same and a light brown. it seems if i get bad gas, they get a darker brown and a HEAVY coating. like rust. when all is good, the bike will fire just about as quick as you hit the button. if not ,it's bad. i'll try a comp. test just to be sure. again, thanks for the info. gabby

sns

hotroadking, i'm not , duh, wtf is sns?!!! is this something i can do easily? you know, pull the push rods, maybe the lifter blocks. what am i looking at in cost? who offers them? ok, i'm starting to freak. i've been out of touch for awhile. the last time i really wrenched on harley's, i swore i'd never own an 80 inch unless i stroked my 74. i timed my bike with a set of feeler gauges and a rolling paper. you could put a belt drive and clutches on for 4 or 5 hundred. 2 inches was wide. old ,ain't i. anyway, help would be GREAT. thanks gabby