AudioVox Cruise Control Installation - pics, docs

Got into a conversation the other day about installing a Cruise Control on the bike. Paul in turn sent me all these pics. There are word docs here that you can also look at that are highly detailed. You'll need MS Word to view the word docs though. While this is for the Yamaha FJR1300 - much of it is universal.

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Some text info that Paul sent over:

The check valve can be bought any local Autozone store.

Motormite Part# 47150
Two Way Check Valve
3 connections

Two of the three ports on the check valve are 1/8" ID. These ports connect to the servo and vacuum canister. Use the 1/8" ID rubber hose in the Audiovox kit for these connections.

The third port is a 3/16" ID connection. Included in the kit is a short piece of 3/16" ID hose and a 3/16" to 1/8" straight plastic reducer. Connect one end of the 3/16" hose to the reducer and the other end to the check valve. Then connect the 1/8" hose to the other end of the reducer.

The other end of this hose connects to one of the engine TB ports. I used TB3 for this connection. Some have connected to two TB's and others have used all four. My installation works well with only one TB. But, I used a 17 cubic inch canister, a bit larger than some of the PVC pipe canisters others have built.

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From Greg:

The guy here who made up the instructions, Arlen, came up to my house this spring and personally helped me get mine together. We spent one whole evening doing the main scary stuff, figuring out where to put the servo, liftiing up the gas tank and bending the throttle tang and drilling a small hole in the tang to attach the linkage. (I believe me had to remove the fuel injection to see what we needed to see also).

As you can see in the pictures, we made up a different size pvc vacuum canister than is shown in the "how-to". thtas because we have ABS, and in the "how-to", its was a non ABS.

The one problem I had after I got it all put together was that I had the two wires that connect to the coil backwards,(it didn't work at first) , until I switched the wires.

We also ran the wires up along the right side of the bike, I put the wires inside of some wire loom wrap so you can't see all the colored wires to to protect them.

The mount that holds the control is from wall shelfing, 3 sided metal, with two pieces bolted together with elongated holes front and back for the wires to get in and out from and with plastic square caps that I found at a hardware store. I used shrink wrap over all the wires to make them look better and prevent chafing.

I had a buddy of mine that has a metal shop get me a 1"x 1" piece of alumumn and I drilled ahole through the middle of it and found a lond metric allen head bolt to mount the works into the factory mirror hole on the left handlebar ( Without my 1" spacer, the metal bracket wouldn't clear the handlebar controls) I then painted. Good luck, Greg