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Limp home mode 2017 F3L - Update: Fixed (I hope!)

Dray

Dray

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OK, so here I set as the owner of a 2017 F3L with 20,000 + miles and it now rest in a spyder shop
a little bit broke. Couple of weeks ago I got a message saying for me to limp home which I did. Being
a old hot rodder I spent several days trying to determine what could be wrong. No luck at all on that.
The limp home message did go away but I had a noise coming from the engine area. To the shop it
went. Wednesday brought the message that the front drive belt pulley was bad and needed to be replaced.
Amazing, 20K miles and a drive pulley is bad. May the Lord bless me for the thoughts that past thru
my head. Hopefully things will go good now. If not, a new RT or Goldwing will be setting here.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.

Dray
 
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That is an odd one for sure. But hopefully its still under warrantee. Merry Christmas And I wish you a great year ahead. Live to Ride, Ride to Live :2thumbs:
 
The limp home has nothing to do with the front pulley. That is a separate issue. The front pulleys on all F3 models have been prone to failure because the hard drive shaft wears away the teeth on the pulley. It is an easy fix at your dealer and should be covered under warranty. BRP has not been able or willing to come up with a harder metal for the pulley. My front pulley has been replaced twice.
 
Agree.....Limp home, whole different problem...
Just replaced mine this summer, but the cause was from drag racing at Spyderfest. Replaced the pulley, the bolt and washer for $120 from cheapcycleparts.com. Torqued to 92lbs, but mine is an '08 GS.
 
BUDs did not show any codes at all. The dealer is a friend and I do not believe he is messing with me.
I will give him a call just to double check.
Thanks everyone!!

Dray
 
So on Tuesday I went and picked up my 2017 F3L. Took it out for a road test and everything went very well.
Loaded it up on my trailer, went and paid my bill. Had a good chat with the tech and he had double checked
and verified that there were NO messages. There were some software upgrades done. Oil, filter and Tranny filter
were changed out. Got home and went for a 50 mile trip. The bike does run smoother, revs easier and seems
to have a tad more power. A happy camper am I. Brought the bad drive gear home and it had rounded burrs
on end of small splines. There were worn areas around the flange that was caused by gear movement and drive
belt. They have not received their 2020 bikes yet. We are waiting to see. I have made several changes to my 2017
that I am happy with so changing to a 2020 will take some thinking on my part. My wife does like the pics she has seen
and told me to get it. Time will tell,

Dray
 
limping (maybe) 2017 F3L - Update: Fixed (I hope)

O.K., here I am again. I picked my bike up ( Friday, not Tuesday-old age maybe) and took it
out Saturday for a short ride and everything was good (ha). Went down to shop today to clean the
bike and polish some chrome. Woe is me because the belt on the rear drive pulley is riding about
1/2" off the inside flange and hanging off the pulley. so tomorrow I will call the cycle place and take
it back to get it fixed. Wife just walked by and said go get a 2020 RT or a Goldwing.

Dray
 
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Front pulley was bad and was replaced. Tech did not do the alignment procedure.
Amazing to me.

Dray
 
Well, the outside edge of belt had the rubber worn off right down to bright polished medal. New belt should
be in today and hopefully I get the bike back tomorrow or Tuesday. waiting for him to get in the 2020's. He
did order one in my favorite red color.

Dray
 
Limping fixed (I hope)

I never thought that this would become so involved. I took the bike back to the shop and the work begin.
Reset everything to good, drove it, belt moved over. Research time !! New belt and same problem. Research
again and pulled rear tire and the problem was discovered. One axle wheel bearing was pretty much locked
up and the other one was well on its way to locking down. I tend to believe that when I had the car tire installed
the bearings were torqued down to tight and this caused the problem. Hopefully everything is fixed. New front
pulley, new belt and two new rear axle bearings. Hopefully there is a 2020 RT in my future. Time will tell.

Dray
 
Agree that if all spacers are installed, meaning correctly installed, it is not truly possible to over tighten the axle and crush the bearings. In theory though, if someone tightened it way over spec it might crush the spacer, but that seems kind of remote. Pretty certain the cast light alloy adjusters would crush before crushing the steel spacers and bearings.

Interesting though.
 
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