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Does anyone know a good procedure for balancing the throttle bodies on 1150 . Someone did tell me this before but my computer ate it !
Does anyone know a good procedure for balancing the throttle bodies on 1150 . Someone did tell me this before but my computer ate it !Deleted account 210609001
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On the technical forum, the top post refers to a Maintenance Manual. There are a couple of different versions to download, in PDF format so you'll need Acrobat reader, but very quick to download. The one I used came from the ibmw website. It isn't an official BMW document - it's far more useful than that. It tlaks you through three people's methods of doing it. Read them all before you start. Pretty simple, though.
I used it for exactly wht you want to use it for - with a bit of effort, I managed to balance my throttle bodies far better than they came away from the 600 mile service. And the BMW techie has zillions of pounds of computers to help him!!! You'll need a vacuum gauge of some sort, either mercury or dials.
Patience, and knowing you're going to have to live with the results, can have a very positive impact on fiddly jobs like this.
(I have an R80RT that can be balanced just about perfectly by ear!)
Good luck,
Robin.
On the technical forum, the top post refers to a Maintenance Manual. There are a couple of different versions to download, in PDF format so you'll need Acrobat reader, but very quick to download. The one I used came from the ibmw website. It isn't an official BMW document - it's far more useful than that. It tlaks you through three people's methods of doing it. Read them all before you start. Pretty simple, though.
I used it for exactly wht you want to use it for - with a bit of effort, I managed to balance my throttle bodies far better than they came away from the 600 mile service. And the BMW techie has zillions of pounds of computers to help him!!! You'll need a vacuum gauge of some sort, either mercury or dials.
Patience, and knowing you're going to have to live with the results, can have a very positive impact on fiddly jobs like this.
(I have an R80RT that can be balanced just about perfectly by ear!)
Good luck,
Robin.
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Thanks thats the one I had B4 the friggin PC ate it. Now how do you fit a scottoiler?Professional Boxer
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sorry posted new thread
1) the way the manual suggests
2) the way we dealers do it
way 2 gets rid of most of the surging!!!!!!!!!!
please advise
1) the way the manual suggests
2) the way we dealers do it
way 2 gets rid of most of the surging!!!!!!!!!!
please advise
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Twinmax, piece of cake takes 10 mins, you need a 10mm open end spanner and a pair on snipe nose pliers.
surging what surging ?????
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got a twin spark then big den?
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You should win some sort of prize for using 'snipe nosed pliers.' (I wonder what odds I would have got from William Hill that I'd see the word 'snipe' on a bike website today.)
I presume these are just long nosed pliers, but I now have a new technical term to use, which I'm sure would impress my friends if only I had some.
I have a twin spark - it doesn't surge at all. (I rode a non-twin R1150R as a loan bike, which DID surge, but not more than normal according to the dealer. It was not very nice. However, I'm not convinced my fuelling is correct throughout the rev range, and it's early days yet (three weeks, only 1,400 miles).
Robin.
You should win some sort of prize for using 'snipe nosed pliers.' (I wonder what odds I would have got from William Hill that I'd see the word 'snipe' on a bike website today.)
I presume these are just long nosed pliers, but I now have a new technical term to use, which I'm sure would impress my friends if only I had some.
I have a twin spark - it doesn't surge at all. (I rode a non-twin R1150R as a loan bike, which DID surge, but not more than normal according to the dealer. It was not very nice. However, I'm not convinced my fuelling is correct throughout the rev range, and it's early days yet (three weeks, only 1,400 miles).
Robin.
Professional Boxer : got a twin spark then big den?
Nope just a 2002 ADV but a totally different bike to the one I test rode @ another dealers (Clarkes) theirs was smooth with linear power delivery. Mine surges like a bastard and I have an on/off throttle, surging mostly sorted with Y and can, on/off bit still their though. I will make them sort it on the 6K service because as my mate in the garage trade say "why the f**k are you spending money fixing a new bike, take it back" he has a point !!!
Nope just a 2002 ADV but a totally different bike to the one I test rode @ another dealers (Clarkes) theirs was smooth with linear power delivery. Mine surges like a bastard and I have an on/off throttle, surging mostly sorted with Y and can, on/off bit still their though. I will make them sort it on the 6K service because as my mate in the garage trade say "why the f**k are you spending money fixing a new bike, take it back" he has a point !!!
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Ah!! well you see here in yorkshire we speak a bit funny, "snipe" nose comes from the bird, the snipe, which is/was commonly a game quarry bird with a long beak, hence "snipe nose" , come to think of it we could now call them "GS" pliers, long beak, !!!!!!!
Ah!! well you see here in yorkshire we speak a bit funny, "snipe" nose comes from the bird, the snipe, which is/was commonly a game quarry bird with a long beak, hence "snipe nose" , come to think of it we could now call them "GS" pliers, long beak, !!!!!!!
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