Throttle Bodies

The adaptors finally turned up so that the throttle bodies could be balanced on the Tiger, whilst in there I thought it would be a good idea to fit the new ICAV gasket that I had and along with the new vacuum tubes that should be all air leaks taken care of. To say the throttle bodies where along way out would be an understatement the bike was trying to backfire through the middle cylinder and they wasn't even on the gauges they where that far out Baz an Gav did an awesome job of tuning them! it's like a totally different bike just sits there ticking over quietly, no hunting, no stalling and so fucking smooth it's unreal!
I had read somewhere that balancing the throttle bodies was the best thing you can do to a Tiger and the author of that pearl of wisdom was not wrong, I am not exaggerating it's totally transformed her!
As always though nothing can ever go smoothly and one of the fuel pump fittings snapped so I had to order a couple of these in as one leaked when disconnected and sod's law states that the one that broke was not the leaky one, so whilst the pump was out a new filter was fitted, you should have seen the shite that come out of the old one and the crud that was in the bottom of the tank! can't be rust as it's plastic so the only place it could have come from is the petrol pumps!
Anyway that's the last piece of the puzzle and finally she runs like she was designed too, all the other things I had done to her made small but significant improvements but having got the throttle bodies balanced has totally transformed the old girl.