Must be those sticky secondary bushings I've seen some people post about.
Catalyst 858 Mid-Range Misfire
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I've had my secondary apart several times and never noticed any stickiness although I'm using the BDX lightweight secondary spider which comes with rollers. Only have about 115 miles on the sled though. Definitely a lot of bugs to work out. Had I known I would have held off on buying this year....especially with the absolute garbage winter we've had up her in AK. Last year was epic.....guess we're paying the price this year.
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The bad luck continues....
Ordered the goat tuner from SSI/BDX. Had it shipped overnight since it was only $10 more and I was thinking I might go riding tomorrow. Opened the box. No manual. Emailed Jeff at BDX and asked if he had a pdf with the instructions. Said to contact Brady who was out until tomorrow. Found an Ibexx video showing updating a 600....looked simple enough. Plugged it in and after fiddling with it for a few minutes got it hooked up to my wifi. It immediately updated and I guess registered the license and all that. Then I was able to download the tune. Picked the tune and confirmed and then met with message saying it failed to open the tune file. Re-started and tried several times with same result. Very frustrating to say the least. Sent off a message to Ibexx and will call BDX tomorrow morning to see if I can get it resolved. I suspect the tuner itself is the issue. Seems to be fairly buggy in other ways too.
Ordered the goat tuner from SSI/BDX. Had it shipped overnight since it was only $10 more and I was thinking I might go riding tomorrow. Opened the box. No manual. Emailed Jeff at BDX and asked if he had a pdf with the instructions. Said to contact Brady who was out until tomorrow. Found an Ibexx video showing updating a 600....looked simple enough. Plugged it in and after fiddling with it for a few minutes got it hooked up to my wifi. It immediately updated and I guess registered the license and all that. Then I was able to download the tune. Picked the tune and confirmed and then met with message saying it failed to open the tune file. Re-started and tried several times with same result. Very frustrating to say the least. Sent off a message to Ibexx and will call BDX tomorrow morning to see if I can get it resolved. I suspect the tuner itself is the issue. Seems to be fairly buggy in other ways too.
I had this too. They had to change some parameter or something via wifi/internet and after that it loaded the file in the ecu. I m suspicious if they had to take something good out of the tune. Let me know when you have yours updated
The older Team-built secondary from the Proclimb/Ascender chassis looks the same from the outside, but the bushing shape/type is completely different from what's coming on the Catalyst now. Both on the helix and sheave. Team has the split bushing with a big radius on it. Catalyst has the straight bushing. Someone that was having RPM issues on FB posted this and I've seen more than one person post that they had an improvement by just swapping to the older secondary.
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Ibexx responded this morning. Said to try re-loading the stock tune first then their tune. Problem was I only had the file labeled "custom" in my file list thinking it had to be the correct file....unbeknownst to me it was not...this is where instructions come in really handy.
Brady with SSI also contacted me. Said I should try using my phone as a hotspot to make sure I had a good solid wifi connection. I ran home from work, plugged it in and let it connect to my router as usual and presto! the silly thing began downloading files. It downloaded 2 files. I then kept loading those then the "custom" file still getting the error. Gave up and went back to work. Brady then informs me that the "custom" file isn't the right one and to select the STOCK858IMP file which I had already done not realizing it was the correct file. Guess I should read file names a little more closely as now that I look at it it's pretty obvious. Sigh of relief to that though....was worried I had a bum tuner and would have to send it back. Still have no idea why it didn't download those files yesterday.
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Ahh ok, I thought you were referring to the rollers for some reason. The bushing on the SSI helix I just swapped in are the split type. This might explain the 250rpm drop I experienced a couple weeks ago while climbing a hill at full throttle. Had the stock stuff in it at that time. Was jamming up the hill then it just started dropping RPM and settled in on about 7600 the rest of the way up. It's kind of inconsistent even with the aftermarket stuff. I'll get variations of a couple hundred RPM. My old sled was fairly dialed in and very consistent. I'll keep throwing my time and probably more money at this thing until I achieve the results I like....or, give up in frustration and sell it off taking a massive financial hit! Interestingly my guage registered that max RPM was 8400 on my last ride. Never saw it go above 8150, when I was watching it anyway.
