XJ600 Diversion Restrictors - Fitting

[Herbalrick]

Has anyone fitted one of these and how hard are they to do yourself?

Also if anyone has a kit they are no longer using I'm willing to buy it off you.

Cheers,
Rich

[iooi]

Should not be too hard. Although getting the carbs to sit right on the air box fittings can be a real pain.
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Just because my bike was A DIVVY, does not mean i am......

[Herbalrick]

Thanks, when you say getting the carbs to sit right do you mean balancing them? Or is there some rearranging to the way the bike is physically arranged.

[Thom]

herbal, you dont even need to remove the airbox, i assume these are the metal washers?

Smply get an allen key in, undo the engine intake manifolds (i expect theyre made of aluminium as my '97 was) and slide the metal washers in place, thread the bolts back up and tighten.

Two words of warning/advice.

You'll have to pry the inlet manifold backwards doing it this way to make space.

Put some liquid gasket or sealant on both faces of the washers as i had air leaks without the stuff.

thom
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Current Bike: 1996 Yamaha TRX850 (The Japanese-Ducati One).
Previous Bikes: 1990 Honda NSR125 'Rothmans' (The smoking one), 1990 Suzuki GS500e 'Caf? fighter' (The loud one), 1987 Kawasaki GPX400r (The quick one), 1997 XJ600s Diversion (The reliable one), 2000 Kawasaki ER-5 (The spontaneously combustive one)

[Herbalrick]

Metalforever, where did you get your restrictors from?
The installation sounds pretty easy, but I'm having a hard time sourcing them from anywhere but FI International (rip off merchants)

[Herbalrick]

Me again. I found a motorbike breakers on Ebay who have a restrictor kit for £12. However they can’t tell me what year of bike the kit came from, only that it was a 91-99 diversion.

As far as I can find out there have not been any major changes to the mechanics of the diversion between 91-99, however I’m not particularly knowledgeable about the Divvy.

Does the restrictor work the same way in all the bikes in the 91-99 diversion? So if the kit came from a 95 Diversion will it work in a 98 Diversion?

Cheers

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[Thom]

my restirctors were from ebay from a 92 model if i remember rightly and i fitted them to my 97 no problem.
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Current Bike: 1996 Yamaha TRX850 (The Japanese-Ducati One).
Previous Bikes: 1990 Honda NSR125 'Rothmans' (The smoking one), 1990 Suzuki GS500e 'Caf? fighter' (The loud one), 1987 Kawasaki GPX400r (The quick one), 1997 XJ600s Diversion (The reliable one), 2000 Kawasaki ER-5 (The spontaneously combustive one)

[Herbalrick]

cheers mate, I'll put the order in