For your reading enjoyment here is TEV thread #1
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1268545171And here is TEV thread #2
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1318209614 I've been going through Tech and I find Three (3) different TEV threads
both based off something said in another brand of bike's tech section as being "great" to fix a problem with their brand of bike. The two methods are ass backwards to each other, of course, and seem to address different problems
on those bikes.
Upon review of all the info written in response to our guys trying TEV fiddles on a Savage I find totally mixed results and reports (Arteacher) of $70+ dollars worth of repair parts needed to back his TEV modifications back to stock to get his TEV issues to stop.
First, NOTHING GOES INTO TECH SECTION UNTIL IT IS PROVEN OUT TO WORK 100% ON OUR SAVAGE as a reliable, replicable method.
TEV fiddling is definitely not there.
Lots of stuff gets experimented with, discussed, sometimes even warred over before getting jelled well enough to go into TECH SECTION. This takes place in RSD before the final product gets written up succinctly and put into TECH SECTION.
So, to start the war off in a good normal discussion war fashion, I say TEV fiddling is just that, fiddling with something that will change how your bike runs somewhat, and in a relatively unpredictable manner at that.Somebody prove me wrong by making a concise statement of how doing exactly this will always result in the bike doing exactly that, even on a bone stock bike.
(much of the issues reported seem to spring from interactions between various performance mods and the "TEV fiddle of the moment").
Lastly, the effects of the TEV fiddle of the moment seem to only be temporary (especially the spring cutting).