Now that I've slept on it I can tell you all how my CB Whine Fest came to be:
After about 60 miles down the road, I felt a small twitch and heard a pop from the tail pipe I think and shortly after that the bike shut down on me. We pulled over to the side of the road and I get it restarted. 5 miles down the road, same thing, this time my traveling partner pulls the left plug and checks it for a spark, it's fine. We take off and about 5 miles further, it shuts off. We fill up at the station near by even though we've only gone about 70 miles so far.
This time he pulled the petcock bowl off and it's clean inside, so off we go again for another 10 miles, but this time, it loses a cylinder (maybe two?) for a while then all of a sudden it's back on all four for a about a minute, so we pull over again and this time he pulled the carb bowls to see how they were filling up, they were okay so we're back on the road for another 10 or so miles before the next power drop.
We took a break and let it sit for 20 minutes and when I took off, all 4 cylinders were firing, but only for a about 10 minutes. This time he told me to get it up to a cruising speed and then turn off the petcock and to pull over when I felt the bike was about to shut down, which didn't take long.He checked the bowls again and fuel was flowing into them. We still had a good 60 miles to go, so I rode the rest of the way on three cylinders, I think. We were on the back roads most of the trip except for the last 30 miles where we had no choice but to get on I-20, of course it shut down once there too.
The bike sat for about 2 hours before we had to ride to dinner, I was dreading it but had no choice but to chance it. The ride to dinner was about 7 miles away and it ran on on all 4 there and back. On the way back to camp we stopped for gas and I noticed it was hard to start with the starter button, so I kicked it. The next morning the only way I could start it was to kick it, I did that most of Saturday. Just like Friday night, it ran like its old self, so I was hoping what ever in the hell was going on with it on the way over was done. Sunday morning I touched the button and it fired right up, great, I told myself, I may make home after all. A few of the guys thought it may be the Dyna that was causing the problem from it getting to hot, but I wondered about that since I've ridden for hours it in the hottest weather this summer and it ran great.
Sunday afternoon we head out on I-20 to try to beat the rain, we're moving along at 80, my bike felt fine until, it dropped in power after going about 50 miles at that speed. Shortly after it started running crappy again, I heard a louder pop this time and my right pipe becomes loud. I got off of 20 at the next ramp and the bike shut down as I'm coming up to the top of the ramp, luckily there's plenty of room to get myself out of traffic. I try to restart with the button, nothing. I get off the bike walk to the back and I see that the right baffle of the pipes has been blown loose and is hanging on by a sliver of metal. It has a 4-2 exhaust
I decided not to get back on I-20 and to take 78 back. I went 20 more miles before it totally shut It shut down. l I pulled over, checked the gas and it had about 1/4 tank, but would not start no matter how many times I kicked it. I got it to fire up once or twice with the button, but it would not stay running. I got off and check the pipes again and this time and both inner pipes were cold! My cell phone battery was almost dead and I was quickly running the battery down trying to get it started. My only option was to have it towed home, 75 miles away from home which cost me $180.
I had the battery on the tender all night and I added more gas and got it started this morning. Do Dynas go bad after such a short time?. I've noticed my mpg has dropped also.
