Here are some more things to check compliments of a Victory/Indian engineer and a technical troubleshooter from Polaris.
Change the main circuit breaker.
If it is bad or marginal it will act just like a bad battery connection.
There are articles on changing the circuit breaker as well as a video by Paul on Youtube.
changing 40 amp circuit breaker
Check for air leaks.
This bike uses the Map sensor as a sort of Mass Air sensor. Getting a correct vacuum signal is incredibly important to it.
First watch this video:
Checking for vacuum leaks
Start the bike with a cold motor, once running using a flashlight for illumination spray the joints at the motor to intake manifold. Also the throttle body to manifold. On my XC I also sprayed the joint to the bottom of the air box/ frame. Just a little is all you need. The motor will race or pick up speed or stall when you spray an air leak. Spray around the map sensor too.
Our bikes did not have air leaks but it is something else to check.
Victory maintains that they do not have a stalling problem with their bikes.
If the bikes do stall they are convinced that it is rider error.
I'm not exactly sure how that works , but that is a subject for another thread.
The two guys I talked to while quite helpful, were convinced of this (it can't be our bikes, it's got to be you and your wife's riding style, the accessories etc)
They were at least as frustrated as I was about the cause. ( My apologies for frustrating them even further)
Something important to keep in mind.
Once you modify the bikes power train, power commander, timing wheel, LLoydz valve, exhaust, you can pretty much be sure that you are on your own with any stalling unless you want to remove all the mods first so that the bike was as originally designed. Unless it is something like a loose battery cable, air leak or a bad circuit breaker your on your own You redesign it, you fix it.
To get any other help you will have to remove the engine performance accessories you installed. You did redesign their motor. It is not as designed.
If you have a stalling bike,
before you mod it you must continue to bring it back until the tech can duplicate the problem.
Here is what does help though. Spend some time first learning what the bike is doing when it stalls. Does it stall in corners? Only when the clutch is in too long? Does it stall at the moment you change the throttle position when you've had the clutch in and need to go? Does it only do it hot?
Then instruct the tech test riding the bike how to make it stall.
It's pretty unlikely that a tech driving it around the block after it had cooled down is going to duplicate the problem unless you can be pretty specific on what causes it. This is the reality of the issue. You can see both sides, it's a tough one. Also if you have a bike that stalls and they can't fix it do file a complaint here:
NHTSA
One of the main reason that this has not been addressed by Polaris is that we end up giving up and fixing them ourselves which makes Polaris think that the problem wasn't a problem in the first place. Which is the idea they presently have. For all I know they are correct and we just happen to have the only two exceptions parked at our house.
Of course if you think that getting it down to the point where you can tell a tech exactly how to make it happen is pretty much impossible, I'm with you on that.
My bike only stalled 3 times on me and once on a friend. 2 of those times were close calls because of what was happening in traffic. My wife's bike has stalled probably a dozen or more times. However at the time she was riding it 6 to 8 hrs a day. In 6 hrs of riding it would stall once or maybe not at all. She is a very experienced rider so she survived everything unscathed, but the bike went from her favorite ride ever to somewhere else way down the list.
For ourselves since I have the stalling issued fixed I am going to spend the time I would spend trying to fix this through the warranty program riding. I just can't justify the time to take everything off again and try to convince a dealer to spend his time test riding my or my wife's bikes till they stall. I actually have a life.
Even if I haven't figured out why they stalled in the first place, what I have now is a bike that doesn't stall ever, doesn't backfire, runs much stronger than stock and gets the identical gas mileage. It also sounds better and is more fun to ride than it was new.
It is nice to know that the guys who design these do ride them. The engineer I talked with had owned 3 of them and presently owned a XC. None of his bikes had ever stalled. ( I sincerely wished I had bought his last bike used)
Yes guys I am the asshole that wrote this.
Both of them were neat guys, we just didn't agree on if Victories actually had a problem with "stalling" or not.
Anyway I am done whining about this and I don't see much more that I can add to it. If that changes I'll deal with it then.