How do most of you members set the idle speed? By feel or do you use a tach? If you use a tach, where is the best place to find one? I just picked my rincon up from my dealer where they performed ( I think ), the 10 hr service. I think I just paid $170.00 for an oil change and I had to top the oil off myself when I got it home. Also the head gasket was leaking. I'll put that in another post.
Setting The Idle
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I use a small tach. I originally bought it for my Raptor. It has a tach and engine hour read out. The tach is a little slow to react under fast acceleration but works great for steady riding and setting the idle. It is the same one Yamaha sells but has Yamaha's name on it. I recently visited their web site and they have added a lot of new models since I bought mine 3 years ago for about $35. You can see them at sendec.com
Thaks Dura. I'll check sendec. I found one on aaen performance for $55.00. They also have an avenger 1 digatal tach that records engine rpm, exhaust gas temperature, and water temp. It records up to 6 min. of run time. Sure would make it easy to check your jetting witout pulling the spark plug all the time. At $450.00 I think I'll pass on that one.
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I ordered two tiny tacs for my rincons from Cabelas. I noticed that after riding for 30 min. the idle rpm was around 1650 on both units. The manual suggests 1400 + or - 100rpm. I set mine down to around 1200.
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