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Tip: If you have a Vision that has sat a while you may find that the clutch pack has "frozen" together.
To free up the clutch, rock the bike back & forth, engaging & disengaging the clutch lever several times, this will usualy free a stuck clutch.

Tip: Bucking and surging can often be attributed to a clogged carb. Get some Berrymans Carb Dip from Pep Boys, carefully disassemble the carb & dip
(see "how to dip your carbs") Then make sure you install a good inline filter.

Tip: Get a tube of 2 part epoxy putty & keep it in your saddle bag. This stuff is usefull for everything from sealing a leaky tank, patching a rusty exaust, or backing up a cracked side panel, plus a lot more. It hardens like steel, can be drilled, tapped, sanded and painted. It is also fuel and water proof. avalable at Car Quest.

Tip: If you have cracks on your intakes you may also have a vacume leak. Purchase a 2 1/4 " bicycle tube, cut out a cross section long enough to cover the intake. Strech the tube over the intake & fittings, cutting a very small "X" over the fittings. Seal the edges with RTV black.

Tip: Corroded connectors are a very common problem on Visions. Periodicly seperate and clean all the connectors on the bike using a very fine emery paper or even a pencil eraser. You want to have 2 shiny metal halves to connect together. Before pluging the connectors together, coat them in dialectic grease to prevent further corrosion.

Tip: The stator connection comming out of the right side case is subject to a lot of heat stress and can cause all sorts of problems to the V's charging system. The worst (and most expensive) being complete stator failure. The connector has 3 white wires on each side of the connector. To prevent problems, cut off both ends of the connector and hardwire (solder) the 3 pairs of wires together & seal with heat shrink tubing or electrical tape. It makes no difference which white wire goes to which, as long as you have 3 seperate, continous wires going from the stator to the regulator. DO THIS EVEN IF YOU SEE NO SIGN OF DAMMAGE.

If your idle "hunts", that is, raises & lowers by itself, suspect a leaking YICS box. The YICS consists of two seperate chambers. Remove the YICS and try to blow into each port on the box. You should feel lots of resistance, they should be air tight.
IMPORTANT: note that on '82 models, two of the 3 screws on the back have a fiber o-ring on them, & that if their missing or the screws are not tight, they will leak.
Replace the hoses if they're collapsed.
If your YICS leaks, then cap each port on the heads and start the bike and see if the idle is better. If this fixes the problem, then fix or replace the box, (try the ROV forum) or leave the ports pluged. YICS page

Tip: Ticking Speedo Head
The problem is the little bearing in the instrument cluster that the speedo connects into is underlubed. The solution is this:
Get some wheel bearing grease and put a dab on your finger and force it into the hole where the speedo connects into. keep doing this until you can't push anymore in. Do this and put some grease in the speedo cable too. This will solve your squealing / ticking problem. It may take a trip or two but once the grease gets into the bearings it'll go right away.

Tip: Carging system failure related cause:
You have read above that the Stator connector fails and should be eliminated.
It has come to our attention that the regulator connector behind the TCI also fails in a similar manner, although in this case it is the heavy black wire (Ground) wire) that fails. This connector should also be eliminated and soldered.