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  1. maurice

    Engine Light

    After a nice ride I stopped about 20 minutes from home to clean bike. After getting back on engine light showed. I pulled over, did walk around as bike idled, no leaking, no change in sound. Turned bike off. Checked oil, full. Drove home, at lights trying to tell if radiator fan turned on. Not...
  2. Sepu4

    2005 silver engine remove

    Hi, I'need to remove and split the cases because the bolt from the gear selector rods has fallen. Can you please let me know what triumph special tools are needed for the operation? Many thanks
  3. KC the dog

    Excess Engine Heat

    I have a 2013 R3 Touring and have excessive heat coming off the engine on the Left side. It's as if the radiator is directing the heat over the engine and out that side. Any suggestions on how to redirect this heat as it is hitting the underside of my thigh to the point of causing a blister or...

  4. Engine coolant

    Is it difficult to change coolant in r3 classic??
  5. Truxx1956

    Hesitation and engine miss intermittently

    Hey guys, I got a 2013 r3 touring. It's got PCV, Ram Air, and no cats. 22,000 miles. Been dynod by pro. Ran perfect but has developed a miss going down road. I have the display for the PCV and I can watch when it begins missing around 11 percent to about 20 percent. If I ride harder or less hard...
  6. KC the dog

    Excessive engine heat

    Anyone have a suggestion to block or redirect excessive engine heat on the left side? The right side doesn't seem to be a problem.

  7. Engine dies when clutch pulled in and chnage down

    Hello all I have a 2021 Rocket due for its first service, however I have noticed more than a few times the engine dies when changing down coming up to traffic lights etc, starts no worries, but is a bit of a worry. The bike idles quite well normally. Thanks

  8. Engine oil transferring into void

    2020 R3GT at dealer for service, 1 year 4,500 miles. refilling engine oil it took about 1.5 litres over the capacity to even register on the dip stick. Triumph tech say the oil is transferring into a void in the engine where an oil seal has been omitted on assembly. Repairing it under warranty...
  9. Rocketeer4life

    CLUTCH cable adjustment SEEMINGLY WORST part of engine SWAP!!!??

    hello all. So I've got my pride n joy on the Virge of taking out for a test run after a lengthy and enjoyable engine swap. BUT this step is baffling me after combing over many many threads of this similar/ exact same issue. With following the captains n gurus step by step words of wisdom....haha...
  10. EskimoPie

    Engine stalls after fill-up

    I live in southern Arizona. It's hot. Very hot. When I happen to fill up on the way to work, and the bike sits in the sun all day, riding home the bike will stall when at idle. I've seen on here that is due to over-filling. It's **** near impossible to not "over-fill" these bikes. After...
  11. buddazero

    New Exhaust (Viking Exhaust) w. Ram Air - Need a Map / Advice

    The time has come, a year ago this forum helped me find an awesome exhaust system, which let me to @Paul Bryant . I have a Triumph Rocket 3 Roadster 2018. @barbagris , I was wondering if you have some insight on the questions I have. You helped me last year with the Ram Air Kit and its been...
  12. FTL40

    Engine doen't like over 95 degree ambient Temp.

    Engine runs great at 90 degree and below ambient temp., when the weather gets hotter the engine doesn't like to run it surges. When the weather is cooler and the bike cools off it runs like a champ. It's an 05, just wonder if it could be some kind of sensor, it throws no codes. Like I said if I...
  13. G-Force Junkie

    Looking for a Shop / Dyno in Ottawa area

    I'm looking for a shop / dyno in the Ottawa area to upload the unrestricted Map, if anyone has any recommendations. (2021 R3 GT) Thanks,
  14. cmintegra

    Valve inspection interval and findings

    Question for iron butt guys with plenty of mileage on their Rockets... anyone has done the valve inspection scheduled for 10k mi or 16k km? Any valve out of specs?
  15. Antek

    How many digits in the engine number?

    Hi folks, need to register my TFC here in California and part of the paperwork requires the engine number, question is how many digits/letters are in it? I can clearly see six digits but there is another symbol/character at the end and I am not sure what it is, I tried taking picture and...
  16. Rocketeer4life

    Advice on slowly upgrading a low mileage o5 engine to a demonic beast one day?

    So my 05 r3 standard engine has a chewed up second gear rattlin round inside but otherwise is still a strong unit, with only 16-17k miles on it. Its out and a 14 roadster unit took its place. Anyone have thoughts of the tedious hastle/ minor cost of crackin into it myself to replace n fix is...
  17. bebsy

    Engine rebuild gone west

    Just had a 2005 engine rebuild for a friend's bike after throwing a valve replaced with a new head and all the dressings complete new oil system new oil pressure sensor and more now this is the ball ache question, when I started it up idled fine oil light went out but when the engine started to...
  18. Rocketeer4life

    Curious

    Hi all. I have a 2005 rocket 3 standard engine with only going on 17k miles. Runs strong and still spectaculary looks like new. Only issue is the second gear is pretty much gone. But still pieces rattle away in 1st gear or so. So engines been parked up and swapped out. Whats truly a fair asking...
  19. Southeast

    Bike Wobble and Hesitation

    My 2021 with 750 miles has a 1-2 second hesitation and engine wobble when I pull on the throttle with medium to hard acceleration. Also when riding at 80-90 mph I will have a partial loss of power, which comes and goes. Check engine light is now on and during my last ride the traction control...
  20. Inkster709

    Engine afterfire.

    Just recently purchased a 2009 R3 with a few Mods done. Foam Ramair intake MOD CAT delete Custom tune First issue is when coming off the throttle getting lots of after fire. Any idea how to remedy ?
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