Issue 014 - Bike Business Magazine Home Page

s e r v i c i n g
You Can Save Hours Of Wasted Workshop Time
With technology advancing at an
ever increasing rate on motorcycles, you
may be thinking about upgrading your
workshop and purchasing specialist fuel
injection diagnosis equipment, whether
it be a full on ecu diagnostic system or a
simple code reader.
However, you may not see a large
volume of fuel injected bikes so perhaps at
this time cannot justify a potentially large
outlay on something you may only need
once a month.
In difficult financial times you need to
be looking at smarter ways to increase
revenue and reduce time spent on
everyday jobs that can regularly throw
up a problem, often meaning you need
to spend more time than you can charge
for, just to diagnose a fault and advise the
customer of what you have found.
One of these everyday jobs is
carburettor balancing, or throttle body
synchronising. How many times have
you DEKA wasted HH 14/9/04 time hunting 4:44 for that PM elusive Page 1
perfect idle You are unsure if your stick
gauges have dirt in the tube causing them
to read incorrectly, so you strip them,
clean them, put them back together only
Often Meaning You Need
To Spend More Time
Than You Can Charge For
Just To Diagnose
A Fault And Advise
The Customer Of
What You Have Found
to find that you still can’t get a perfect idle.
So it’s not the gauges, it’s the bike One
of the easiest things to check is to remove
the diaphragm caps so see if any of them
have a hole or are not seated properly.
If you’re lucky enough to be able to do
that without removing too many other
parts, then hopefully soon you’ll find the
problem. So after removing the diaphragm
cap off of all four carbies, you find that
the 4 th one is the one with a hole in it! Well
isn’t that typical
It would have been great to know which
one had the problem so you could have
got straight to it, advising the customer
of further work required, and being able
to justify extra costs with a printout of the
vacuum waveform showing before and
after tests.
The Bikevac Inlet Analyser is that tool
- specifically designed for motorcycles
using the latest technology.
Computer diagnostic analysers have
been available to the motor trade for
many years now and are accepted as
being the only way to set up car engines’
carburettors and fuel injection systems.
Even though modern motorcycles have
multi carburettor or multi injector systems
requiring accurate individual balancing,
motorcycle workshops have had to put up
with 50 year old technology and a set of
dial or stick vacuum gauges.
The BikeTech Digital Vacuum Analyser
is a PC based interface with 4 highly
sensitive transducers which connect to
the engine’s induction tracts via rubber
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