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I had a couple of you ask about my fuel pump swap on Saturday. Thought I'd give an update. Bike is running like a champ now. I did not realize how much it was running like a dog prior to the swap. It feels as though I gained 50hp back.

Take it your knee is back to 100%. Have you ridden Hatfield before?

Home safe as well. 550 miles today. I'm tired. It was great to see everybody. Thanks for putting this together @NinjaDoc. Thanks for leading me around most of the day @B-Mac. Great riding with you as always @TreeFime. @Skinny guy (Rick) I hope you enjoyed the ride home. It was great to ride with you. You handle that BMW well. We'll have to ride together again sometime.

I would think you should be able to get a nice track bike with that money. Do you think it will go up that much? Progressive payed out like $3500 to me when I cracked a quad frame after wrecking it. I don't remember my policy going up. At least not a significant amount to make me do a double take on it. I realize it was a quad and less money paid out, but it was still money they paid out.

I plan to be in Lisbon around 7:20. From there I'm running 164-9 into Cadiz around 8:20. Then 22-800 meeting @TreeFime at 70 and 800 around 9. From there 800 to 78. I plan for my stops to be quick and the pace to be brisk. If anybody wants to meet up post in here or PM me. I'll try to keep an eye on both. Can't wait to ride with all of you tomorrow.

@B-Mac I like the sound of the Ninja.

I'm looking forward to this ride as well. I rode to work today and I'm pretty sure the fuel pump swap I did cured my issues on the bike. Saturday can't come soon enough.

Sorry to hear this. Glad you're okay and made it home. Gravel?

Great to hear from you Jerry. I have been, and will continue to pray for your recovery.

Installed the new-used fuel pump I got off EBay on Saturday. Took the bike out 2 up today for 1.5 hrs. Pulled in the driveway and dropped off my daughter then went down the road to test the bike out. Bike seemed to run great, no hesitation. This is good news. The last time I tested after my commute from work (30 min ride) I could notice a hesitation. I'm not 100% it's fixed, but seems it could be. The mechanic at the bike shop I stopped at mentioned it could be a bad fuel pressure regulator When I explained my symptoms to a buddy of mine who is a much better mechanic than I he also mentioned the fpr. On the 06 1000rr the fpr is built into the pump. So, maybe that was my problem. Thanks so much to all of you that mentioned things to check out, and help with diagnosis.

Took my youngest daughter out for a 1.5 hr ride. May have hooked her on riding just like her sister. I took her to the best road we have nearby. When asked what she liked best. "The corners dad". When I explained there are much better roads out there, she seemed more open to a longer ride. Just may have to take her to Deals Gap next year.

So the Suzuki is back up and running in full force Ireland?

Ordered a t-shirt. Thanks for organizing all of this Nivin. Plan is to throw in the new-used fuel pump in my bike this weekend, then hopefully test it prior to this ride. As of now I still plan to be in on this.

No I haven't. I thought it would flash a code at me if it had 1 stored. I'll look at the manual.

Less than 2 months is my guess

Not sure. I don't suspect it would be, because the only thing I have done recently is replace the battery and that does not require pulling the tank or anything near it. Therefore, I don't see a ventilation hose being pinched or anything of that nature. I feel it could be just about anything. To me the bike is no spring chicken. It's 11yrs old with close to 40,000 miles. Maybe the guy looking for a 1000cc bike will buy it.

Nasty

@Isaac's Papa ^^^

Nothing that I know of. I bought the bike used. I tore into this year to check the valves and as I worked my way through to get to valves I did not notice anything. Some additional info: Yesterday I stopped at the local shop and had the owner listen to the fuel pump prime up. He agreed that it definitely does not sound right. Then I tried to have another guy there listen to it and it sounded fine no matter how many times I cycled it. Even if a started it for a second it sounded fine. So when I got home (just a short ride) I cycled it after I shut it off and it stuttered the whole way through the cycle. It was the worse I have ever heard it. Then I cycled it again and it sounded about smooth as could be. So my thoughts are its struggling on the initial prime after being ridden due to the fact it has to work harder. The second cycle does not have to work much since it's just cycling fuel through the rail and not really having to pressurize much. I'm thinking though if it sounds that rough on initial prime it probably is struggling at some point while running as well. It makes sense to me that the longer it runs and the higher the RPMs the more it will struggle. I'm no expert by any means, however, and I appreciate everyone's ideas. Thanks again for your input. I may be wasting money on a pump as it may not be my problem, but I know it does not sound right. I wish I could have recorded it yesterday. My brain as a math teacher can't put into words what it sounded like. After I heard it, all that came to mind was the sound of rapid firing on the old Space Invaders video game. Yes it kind of had that high pitch sound. Not quite as loud, but it seemed to squeal a bit like a pig.

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Yes efi. Air Filters were replaced less than 7,000 miles ago as well as cleaned the injectors. Will possibly look into checking tps and maf. I'm hoping to be able to figure out a way to recreate the problem so after I try to fix the issue I can know it's gone without having to ride for 3 hours plus. It of course ran like a champ the whole ride to work.

The only reason I'm leaning towards the pump is that initial prime sounds as if it's struggling. It sounds as if it's hesitating and seems loud to me. It's not a nice consistent prime up sound that I'm used to hearing on a FI motor. Just recently replaced battery. As in less than month old.

It did not seem to matter. I first noticed it at less than half a tank as I made some hard passes on a couple of cars. I thought maybe I was in the wrong gear and I would pay more attention. Didn't really get on it after that as I made my way to a gas station where I was nearing empty. Left the gas station and started to experiment. At first everything seemed fine and I thought, you're worrying about nothing. Then I kept experimenting and shortly after it showed it's ugly head again. Doubt I was below 3/4 tank. I'm thinking the 10-15 min break at the gas station from fueling up and using the restroom did the pump some good. If it is in fact the pump, the break plus the fresh fuel possibly having a cooling effect. Once it started to act up I could recreate the symptom each and every time I cranked on it.

That's what I was guessing. Thanks for the input. I'm curious to see if it will act up after my commute. I went ahead and ordered a new-used pump for it. I would like to be able to test to see if it cures the issue before I head out on an all day ride. Yesterday was a 5.5 hr ride and I noticed the issue around hour 3. So my commute may not do it. Worth a shot though.

Of course when I just took the bike out for a quick 10 min ride I cannot make it repeat it's hiccup. Chalking it up to the bike needs to run longer before it shows it's ugly head. We'll see what it does tomorrow on my 30 minute commute to work. I know it did not magically fix itself. I hate chasing problems like this.