Since putting the power commander on the bike, it's been having a harder than normal time at starting up. If the engine's cold, it takes 6-8 seconds for it to turn over. If warm, it takes 4 seconds or so before she gets going....

There is a setting where you an add more start up fuel. I called Dynojet and they basically told me to put whatever i felt like in there and do a trial and error.... I'd rather not do a trial and error with my Harley.

Has anyone here encountered this issue I'm experiencing? If so, and you've used this feature, what percentage of fuel did you add and how many seconds? Any drawbacks?

 

I don't know if you have a built motor or not, but here's what Power Commander says about the feature you're using:

Before you mess with those settings, I suggest you try the following.

Turn on ignition
Hit run
Hit start immediately.

Do not wait for the engine light to turn off and the fuel pump to finish priming.

 

Nope just a stock engine (stage 1 intake). Funny I saw this advice posted as well...why is this? I was always under the impression that you should wait for the fuel pump to finish...

 

This was a common problem among forum members a couple of years ago. Contact Power Commander for what the resolution was. Or do a search on the forum.

 

I did contact power commander and they were no help. I did do a search but found no specific info on what values to use in the settings.

 

With a stock engine, you should leave this setting alone.

Typically, you should wait for the fuel pump to finish and the engine light to turn off. That changes when you have a PC.

From what I've read, the PC is only powered up while the engine light is *ON* and fuel pump is still priming. Thus, if you wait for the light to go off and pump to stop priming, you lose power momentarily to the PC, which causes the hard start.

I had this same issue. So I began to follow the advice, and my bike starts with ease every time.

 

This is the answer.

 

Thanks for the tip, I've never read that one before. Just went to the garage and tried it, it fired right up. Sometimes it fired right up, sometimes not. Maybe I was just waiting too long to hit the start button.

Good info!

 

Instead of calling powercommander use their online support. Plug your bike into you computer/laptop and then under support section there is a remote tech login help. A tech will log on and tell him your issues and he'll adjust the setting for you. Mine starts rough cold, but starts fine warm whether I start while it's priming or if I wait. My issues is only cold. I haven't logged on to fix the cold starts yet, but they helped someone that I told to do this and it worked for him.

 

What he said.....I am the one he told about the tech from power commander. Bike has been running good ever since they went in a made some adjustments to the settings for the map i am running.