Tourbuddy

orchie18

orchie18

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Wondering if anyone has some experience with a tour buddy. In order to install them I the new srxs you have to move the servo motor. I was told people make extensions for there power wires for the servo and re locate them to the chain case side of the airbox.

I use the tour buddy when I go up north as there are few fuel stations. Everytime I reroute my cables either one of my cables come undone or it breaks a cable. I will assume the bending of the cables around the airbox causes the cables to fail. Has anyone else experienced this trouble.

My solution would be to use a 98 air box and the short cables. Any other ideas
 

I ran a tourbuddy on my viper for a year and never had any problems. What do you mean by cables. The PV cables are breaking or your wire harness is breaking?
 
Power valve cable came off the servo one time and broke another time. Not a fun thing to jimmy rig in the woods that's for sure
 
I used the tour buddy on the Viper. Great product. No problem re-routing the cables on the servo and yes you have to rewire the servo. Once you re-route the servo you must adjust all three cable lengths. ---mac---
 
orchie18 said:
How or where did you run your cables Super1c
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Send me your email, i have the install instructions right from tourbuddy. Very clear and easy to understand. And like mac said you have to readjust your cables once you move them. Changes the tension on them.
 
Looks like you should get it this time. Not sure how you were mounting it but when you do the way of the directions when you mount it to the coolant hose i also got a little piece about 4" long and slit it down the middle and slid this over the viper coolant hose so the servo motor does not wear on the coolant line. Mine started to before i did this.
 
Funny they dont tell you to re adjust the servo. Im gonna try to keep it on all season this year. So i can test it prior to going 80 miles into the woods. I should have taken a picture of how i cowboyed my broken powervalve cable in the open position. seemed to help fuel economy, but it wouldnt go over 70 mph on a wide open highway. lol
 
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Orchie - Please know that if anything goes wrong with the wires or cables while riding far from home it should not be an issue. The engine will loose performance a little and you do not need to repair out on the trail. Just fix it when you get home. In fact half the guys on this site admit to not even knowing when pulled through cables were broken or servo out of service. I don't know what method you plan to adjust your cables but read up with lots of info here and by all means get it right.
 
Ive adjusted them many times. Anyone who dont know when they have a pull threw must be crazy lol. I use the alan whench method, seems to work good. For what ever reason when I reroute the cables it takes something out of wack. I will set the cables this time in the new location. Hope that fixes the problems
 
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