Finally I won: idle stepper bypass

Diamonddog

Diamonddog

For someone could look like a defeat, but after two years of battle against the puzzling behaviour of the idle of my SD 07 I'm a happy biker again!
The main problem was that my idle stepper motor kept moving while I was riding with the throttle open, so when I was closing the throttle the idle appeared higher than before (about 2.200 rpm), stopping the bike it slowly setted itself to the right range.
Obviously i tried to change almost everyting about throttle bodies and sensors with no results.
So I finally bought 2€ of electric heaters (8,2ohm x 5watt) to bypass the stepper motor and cheat the ECU! VICTORY!

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The bike now works perfectly!!!
I just added a manual adjustment for the idle, working on the the stepper motor's actuator (still there but dead), to adjust the idle speed "by ear"
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That's all!
all that matters is that now I'm enjoying riding again!
ktmguy

ktmguy

Good fix but the reason why the stepper motor keeps moving is a temperature sensor. TPS could also be a reason. Also possible is a fault in the ecu but less likely.

Just to say you could have turned off the idle feature in tuneecu and no need for resistors.
Diamonddog

Diamonddog

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