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  1. Dragonslayer
    I have a lot to be thankful for and close to the top of the list is being turned on to this site. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the VR family.
  2. Dragonslayer
    :sign green with env:sign Rock On: Two of my favorite things riding my Venture and flying.........Oh, or is that the same thing
  3. Dragonslayer
    I rode my bike naked once. I probably shouldn't say where or why but I found it very intimadating. Not that I have anything to be ashamed of, but, I kept thinking about skinning up my feet if I had to stop suddenly. Then I started worrying about what i might skin if if I fell off. I quickly stopped the bike and put my clothes and safety leather back on. Did i share too much?
  4. Dragonslayer
    I'm glad yall are moving on up with the new set up. We should ask Jeff Foxworthy about the word. You might be a redneck if your garage flaps in the breeze.
  5. Dragonslayer
    I like the set up but I bet my garage is redneckier (is that a word?) than yours. Just ask Blackjack or RandyR. Mine flaps in the wind and has it's own shade tree. Mine only has two bikes currently a partially disassembled 1st gen a 2nd gen and maybe soon a fat ol'e Boss Hoss
  6. Dragonslayer
    I find that decimal point placement is not near so critical in cooking as they are in micro measurement math. Enjoy the soup.
  7. Dragonslayer
    Finally, the valve shim replacement operation is now over and successfully completed. Thanks to RandyR who help was invaluable. Randy R YOUDAMAN After three different days attempting and overcoming the obstacles described earlier, we managed to extract the stubborn shim on cylinder 2 outside intake valve and remeasured and verified that all the rest were within spec clearences. Now to move on to other repairs planned.
  8. Dragonslayer
    My son is really sick of hunting now. Yesterday we killed three more within the first 15 minutes of daylight. He is really sick processing deer meat now. RandyR was over today to help on the bike and got to try some of the deer sausage on a biscuit. He'll just have to tell you what he thinks of it. By the way he put the mustard on the top of the sausage which was on the bottom half of the biscuit.
  9. Dragonslayer
    My deer season is probably already over. Mostly because I don't think I can coerce my son into helping me drag, gut, clean and process anymore deer meat. This was my fastest season so far. The first hunt last Saturday we killed two deer (Big Doe & Spike buck) within the first 15 minutes of day light. Yesterday we killed three (7 pointer, 4 pointer and another large Doe) within the first 15 minutes of daylight. Total hunt time this season, 30 minutes, five deer in the freezer. Freezer is full. I'm kinda over processing deer meat myself for awhile.
  10. Dragonslayer
    This past weekend I just put up my first batch of Deer sausage for the season. All of my last year's wild game sausage was pretty much consumed by April. Not to brag but, my home made wild game sausage, jerky and select meat cuts are the best in the land and the perfect accessory for any biscuit. No my techniques and recipes are not family secrets passed down from generation to generation. Nor are they recipes I've seen on tv or borrowed from other sources, at least not totally. They are a result of 40 years of trial and error research in the best methods to harvest, field dress, age, butcher, trim, prepare, season, package, freeze then cook these delicatable critters found roaming around our woodlands. The combination of which is now a family secret which I am painstakingly passing down to my son in every detail beginning with the dragging out of the woods, field dressing and butchering steps. I'm not sure he still views hunting as a recreational activity now that he is old enough to participate in the work portion of the process
  11. Dragonslayer
    WhAT DID YOU SAY? IS THERE A CURE FOR BALDNESS?
  12. Dragonslayer
    If you can get it back home GeorgeS is near Seattle and is an elecrical guru wizard. He helped me trouble shoot and repair my bike via e-mail, post and phone calls. He is a retired airlines mechanic. I can't speak for him but he might be willing to help out.
  13. Dragonslayer
    There are some special people in this place.
  14. Dragonslayer
    Here again, correct me if I'm wrong and I do defer to the more enlightened. But, I recall the same conditions on my bike at one point in time and corrected the problem totally by changing the clutch fluid an bleeding the fluid line from the master to slave cylinder. Can't air in the fluid lines memick the same symptoms?
  15. Dragonslayer
    Yes they are the same and actually the left and right vent louvers are interchangeable by turning one of them upside down.
  16. Dragonslayer
    I'm not exactly sure and I could be wrong but I think it has something to do with creating an air flow ventura in the intake boots causing the gas to be delivered more efficiently to the cylinders somehow. my recolection is that the general census of opinion is that the system had little if any affect and was dead weight and in the way. Yamaha evidently agreed because they did away with it on the MKII 1986 models. Now please if any of you out there more knowledgable on the subject, and I'm inaccurate on this please jump in and correct me. Enquiring minds want to know.
  17. Dragonslayer
    The first time that sound happened to me I was near Ashville in 30 degree weather dodging an ice storm in the middle of the night. The sound was so loud and to me sounded like some sort of warning buzzer located in the fairing some where. Not knowing what the buzzer was for and what it was trying to tell me and considering my location and circumstances I got real worried, real quick. I whipped out the cell phone and called the only Venturerider expert whose phone number I had stored in my phone directory. I managed to reach GeorgeS in Seattle who was only slightly put out sounding since it was obvious I had awakened him from his beauty sleep. He patiently listened while I went into great detail describing the sound I was hearing and every factor of the circumstances I could think of. When I had finished my disertation he calmly said "disconnect the speedo cable, take two aspirin and call me in the morning" then hung up the phone. That's one of the best things about this group. Timely expert advice when you despertly need it.
  18. Dragonslayer
    Are you sure someone didn't put a playing card in the spokes held on by a clothes pin? I'm not saying, I'm just saying.
  19. Dragonslayer
    I'm also thinking that maybe a brillantly engineered and tooled customized shim popper upper tool and some gentle tapping on the purchase point might jar the offending shim from it's secure resting place.
  20. Dragonslayer
    I thought of that too.
  21. Dragonslayer
    Yes you read the post correctly. However, the problem with the "too fat a shim theory" is that it went into place easily when we installed the wrong one. I'm kinda thinking a "slightly distorted shim bucket theory" due to a miss alignment of the shim tool.
  22. Dragonslayer
    Randy, I have a compressor we just didnt have it set up yet since our move . I'll have Clint do that this week. Read the Pm i sent you about slightly distorted shim bucket.
  23. Dragonslayer
    Well the search ended. Just as I thought might happen as I was disconnecting and nudging the radiator out of the way to get a good frontal view, I heard a ping and there it was on the floor. On to the next step.
  24. Dragonslayer
    I had the laptop set up in the work area like you suggest and read that thread the only problem was this is a new laptop and I didn't pony up for microsoft office/excel. I use the freebe Open Office suite which is supposed to be compatable with excel but it would not open the attached file. So we did it the old fashioned way.
  25. Dragonslayer
    The piece I'm looking for is about 1/8" in diameter about 1 1/2" long. It's not wedged in at the place I was using it I think it was more likely to flip up and land somewhere... out of sight.
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