Another ignorant question by someone trying to learn...VOES
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Another ignorant question by someone trying to learn...VOES
Isn't true that if your stock carb has been replaced, someone has most likely done away with the VOES? If my bike had the VOES, wouldn't there be a vacuum line hooked up to the back rear side of my Mikuni carb? That vacuum line nipple is capped off. I'm 95% sure I do not have a VOES, but this mechanic was telling me over the phone that I do b/c it's electronic. This all plays in to how the bike should be tuned...and if he thinks I have one and I don't, he obviously doesn't have it tuned right. Thanks!
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Isn't true that if your stock carb has been replaced, someone has most likely done away with the VOES? If my bike had the VOES, wouldn't there be a vacuum line hooked up to the back rear side of my Mikuni carb? That vacuum line nipple is capped off. I'm 95% sure I do not have a VOES, but this mechanic was telling me over the phone that I do b/c it's electronic. This all plays in to how the bike should be tuned...and if he thinks I have one and I don't, he obviously doesn't have it tuned right. Thanks!
Not necessarily....I have always just tossed the VOES on all of the bikes, I've owned that came with them.
It has little (if any) effect on the motor once it's off Idle.
It'll kick back on the starter every now and then without it, but that's about the only thing you'll notice.
Bike should run fine without it, mine always have.
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I cannot see any vacuum lines on the intake or the carb. I assumed it had been trashed when the PO swapped out the carbs. I have NOT traced the wire from the IM to see if it's been capped though. Wouldn't I have to pull the timing plate to see that? Thanks again!
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the tan side bar tells the complete story - only a drag bike leaving my shop does not get one - we see what happens to an engine - that some never see
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I know I'm a newbie at learning these bikes and I'm trying to figure a lot of this stuff out on my own...but I don't understand what you are trying to tell me. Are you saying that all the bikes that leave your shop have a VOES hooked up unless they are drag bikes? I'm a hands on learner. I would literally volunteer for free to work at a good shop if there were one around here, just to learn. Once I see something and understand it, my brain grasps it immediately but it's far more difficult for me to understand concepts when I'm not sure how those concepts work together to begin with. I'm trying though.
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Makes no sense not to run one on a street driven bike...serves the same function as a vacuum advance on an old car, much better throttle response and less chance of detonation. Useless on a drag bike since they never see part throttle operation.
Last edited by Tom84FXST; Aug 29, 2014 at 05:21 AM.