Marty442, I believe that the bike runs totally different. I am now home in FL got home about 7pm. I had zeroed one of the trip meters when I left home and when I pulled into the driveway tonight it showed 6,690 miles total round trip and that includes a whole lot of day rides in the Black Hills. My wife and I left on July 1 and got home today Sep 2.
I can absolutely tell you that after the shop changed the Idle Motor and the fuel filter, the bike has a lot more power. In fact after I bought bike I complained that my 01 Road King with big bore kit 95", ran much better. So these technical guys, Iclick and gfr000, I think described that the Idle motor as not affecting it above idle. They could be right on as far as I know. I just know the bike runs better and roll on is a lot stronger.
On my way out to Rapid City, SD, I was pretty upset with the bike even before the idle issues started because I thought it was due to being a 6 speed and gearing making it a dog, since my 01 RK is a 5 speed. Well it woke up after they made the two last repairs. Idle motor and fuel filter and there was only 20-21k miles on the bike. I guess the fuel filter could have been restrictive but I blew air through the old one and a new one. They seemed almost the same but the old one was harder to blow through, I assumed because the filter still wet with gas and the new one was dry. I don't know for certain about all this new stuff.
I did not have any more non starting issues after I pushed the two wires down on the starter.
Time to spend hours cleaning all this bug infested chrome.
