I wanted to thank everyone for the great advice on this forum!! I just bought the bike from a dealer this past April. It’s a 2012 RS & only had 1105 miles on it. I did a VIN search on it before buying. It was bought new in August 2015 as a leftover & never registered again until I bought it. Owner had passed away & his family left it sit in the garage till they sold it to the dealer I got it from. Only warranty they would give me was that there were no oil leaks, which there’s not. Bike ran great 'til I hit 5,000 miles 2 weeks ago then started losing power & missing in low rpms. Performed the canisterectomy. Helped but still wasn’t right. Got new Iridium plugs & Moroso plug wires for it. Changed the vacuum hoses even though they looked like they were recently done, replaced the fuel filter only to find it had also been recently done by the date on it & finally worked up the nerve to tear the airbox off to do the plugs. This is where the “fun” began. It had a brand new Puroltor air filter in it, but after pulling the box off, I discovered a huge mouse nest in the box. Thought maybe that was the problem. Decided to change the plugs & wires anyway since I was that far in & had already gotten new ones. Glad I did. The plug wires were the original wires, & I removed the spark plugs, which were also original, with my fingers after noticing them moving when pulling the wires off. Put in new plugs with thermal paste & installed the new wires with dielectric grease. Put everything back together & test rode. Apparently, the dealer only replaced the “easy” stuff before offering it for sale since it ran decent. I only thought this thing ran great before. It’s unreal how good it runs now. Again, thanks to all of you for your insight that gave me the courage to do this myself!!!! Doing it myself just felt that much more gratifying!!!
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