How do you balance the throttle bodies on a K8?

[Nobbylad]

Originally Posted by Speedy

Are we any further with this?

I want to do my TB's, but I would prefer to do them myself than take the bike to a dealer..........of which I don't have locally anymore.

From what I've read, the tool is needed to hold the ISC valve at a specific setting (half open) whilst TB adjustment is being done.

Otherwise, it keeps adjusting itself.....

Has anyone done this without the tool?

No... because you can't.

[Speedy]

Yeah, that was my thoughts.

Loads of people on other Suzuki forums are trying to figure out a "work-around" solution.

Think I'll have to bite the bullet and book the bike in somewhere.....which annoys me, because I'm more than capable of doing the job myself, but I can't justify the outlay of the Healtech and Vac guages for a job I will do maybe once or twice.

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by Speedy

Yeah, that was my thoughts.

Loads of people on other Suzuki forums are trying to figure out a "work-around" solution.

Think I'll have to bite the bullet and book the bike in somewhere.....which annoys me, because I'm more than capable of doing the job myself, but I can't justify the outlay of the Healtech and Vac guages for a job I will do maybe once or twice.

and this is where the steelers have got people over a barrel. £90 for a balance while the tools are £160 ish. if we could find out what its doing at the CPU end of things then making a pic to do just the one job would be easy enough. whoever works that out and makes a tool cheep enough is onto a winner.

Originally Posted by Bibio

and this is where the steelers have got people over a barrel. £90 for a balance while the tools are £160 ish. if we could find out what its doing at the CPU end of things then making a pic to do just the one job would be easy enough. whoever works that out and makes a tool cheep enough is onto a winner.

£90 who quoted you that?. I guess people who do charge that give the rest of us a bad name.



Mind you, your in Scotland..

[Speedy]

Originally Posted by Bibio

and this is where the steelers have got people over a barrel. £90 for a balance while the tools are £160 ish. if we could find out what its doing at the CPU end of things then making a pic to do just the one job would be easy enough. whoever works that out and makes a tool cheep enough is onto a winner.

Yes, we need someone with the SDS/Healtech/other diag.machine to go through the procedure for setting the ISC valve, then measure the voltage and/or current supply to the valve......

Originally Posted by SV650Racer

£90 who quoted you that?. I guess people who do charge that give the rest of us a bad name.



Mind you, your in Scotland..

Mr Jordan, what do you charge for TB sync out of interest?

[Nobbylad]

Both Bibio and I have the Healtech.

[Bibio]

from what i can gather it locks it at a certain rev/open value by telling the brains to do so which i think is part of the service sub routine. i don't think you could just lock it down directly as it might just control other factors in the background. i do know it wont engage if the temperature value is out of range 80-99 and if it is it will either not engage or knock it off same goes for the revs. it would be fun if you could reverse engineer the coding to see what's going on.

ooohhh and i don't bother taking the air box off.

Originally Posted by Speedy

Mr Jordan, what do you charge for TB sync out of interest?

Mrs Jordan

Between £27.50 and £45 dependant on how far out they are.

[Speedy]

Originally Posted by SV650Racer

Mrs Jordan

Between £27.50 and £45 dependant on how far out they are.

OOOPS!! You'd charge me double now for calling you a Mr!!

OK, well, I'll book it in at some point I think.

Bibio, interesting stuff. Especially as mine seems to be at it's most jerky/horrible when it's in the 80+ degree temp range.

Wonder if thats why they need setting at a higher than normal running temp.....

[Bibio]

it shouldn't be jerky m8. mine is smooth as silk no matter what temp. but i have been experimenting with the TPS as of late just out of curiosity and it's paid dividends