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    Hello All, I have an '87 that I am redoing. I would like to get the parts of the engine that shows to look better. It looks to me like Yamaha varnished the engine or something. Is that right. Anyway, I think it tis that varnish that looks yucky, all yellow. Is there away to just take the varnish off and polish the aluminum, I think that would look good. D
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    Hi all, I really tore into it and I have most of the body parts painted. Just have the 2 bags bottoms to do today, and I have them done. Not perfect but good enough for the woman I go out with. I was looking at the side vents for the engine covers. They aren't really bad, but not perfect, and somewhere, I think here I saw that someone had made some smoked acrylic windows to replace them. Does anyone know the thread? I will post pics when IO get it together. D
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    I'll check if there is an Icon lit D
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    I am going to get this '87 venture on the road this spring. On the instrement cluster top center is a red light that is blinking when I turn the key on and all the time it is running. What is this and what should I do about it? Thanks D
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    And I assume it would be a good idea to disable it? D
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    I have my 87 stripped down so that is look like something out of a mad max movie. Had to take the saddle off, so I thought since it was off do a good detailing job. Any suggestions on how to clean it and whatever. D
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    Well, it didn't work. Went and got a battery at Wally world $42. D
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    Im' in Wyoming at about 4400 feet, about the same as Carson if I remember, Can you tell me what plugs you put in that worked well? D
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    Hi Guys, I bought this '87 Royale to fix up lass may an d only got about half done before winter came. I want it for this season so I am tackling the body again. but... I went to take the battery out to get a new one. Last year I always had to put a charger on it to play with the carbs and such. Well, when I took it out, it was completely dry. So me thinks, maybe if I put acid in it may work, at least well enough to work on it, and if not I'll get a new one. So, I had an old car battery sitting here to take back to the store whenever I get a new battery. I drilled small holes in the bottom of each cell, one at a time and put the acid in a peanut butter jar and filled up each cell on the bike battery. I now have it on a 2 amp charger, to see what will happen. What do ya think, did I waste my time or could I save it? I have no idea how old it is , since it came with the bike. It says Powerline Y50-N8L-A on it D
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    Hi All, I just got done syncing the carbs with the homemade carb sync tool described on this board. Worked pretty well, number 3 was way out. She purrs now. So I took it up the rode. Mushed out at about 5 grand, so I took off the top of the airbox and strapped it to the back of the bike, WOW! she screams! Never heard it run so good, I think that those must be some performance jets? I am thinking I may play with opening up the airbox in some way that may be adjustable, a louver or something? D
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    Well, with the old Diaphrams, Needles and Seats in it ran great with the cover on. I did not mess with the floats. The only thing different is that it is clean, new needles, seats and diaphrams. Other than that it is my old carb. I am leaning toward that these are rejetted HP? It idles nice and really sounds good, with the cover off or on considering I have not synced yet. Just when I open it up that is when I see the difference. D
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    Both, it just ran crappy, I don't really think it was really rebuilt. I think he put new diaphrams, needles and seats in, and cleaned up the outside. what makes me think that is that, is that I had to turn the idle needles out at least 5 turns just to get it to run. At that is was cracking and popping alot, a lean fuel air mix. I think. The main problem with my original carbs was holes in the diaphrams, I tried patching them, as per another thread on this board, then it ran well till the patches let go. As usual, it ran better with the air box cover on, when I had the patches on. The difference must be the needles and seats. D
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    Hi mbrood, No, I am not sure. I bought a "rebuilt" Carb off of Ebay. When I put it on the bike, it was not right, had to turn the idle needles out 5+ turns to get to run, and it ran crappy. So I took my old one apart, cleaned it, soaked in Sea Foam for 4 days, and reassembled with the Seats, Needles and Diaphrams from the new one (I was told they were new, and they did look much better). An observation -- the needles that I m running now have a sharper point on them than the old ones. I went out and played with it a little now, If I have it at about 4500 with the air box cover on, and crack the air cover open a quarter inch, RPM's climb a seems to run nice. I think I may put some spacers in the cover and play around with that. If it is rejetted, it could need more air? makes sense to me. I will get a Carb Sync tool and start on syncing it too. D:)
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    Sorry for the confusion. 5 turns was on the other carbs, this one I did 2.5 turns. It is dogging out when the cover is on. Screams with the cover off. D
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    OK, on this set of carbs I have them turned out 2.5 turns, and it started right up. I will turn them in a quarter or so and see what that does D
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    Main jets are new and pristine. Emulsion tubes, not sure what they are? D
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    Sorry I was not clear, 5 turns out was the other carb, this one is starting real good at 2.5 turns
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    Hello All, Let me run this by you, and I will try to keep it short. I bought this '87 as a fixer upper. Right away I saw that I needed Carb Diaphrams -- wow over $200. I found what was supposed to be a rebuilt carb on ebay for $200. I asked if it had new Diaphrams, Needles and Seats, he said it did, so how could I go wrong. Got it and put it on -- had to turn the idle screws out 5 turns to get it to run. Decided my old carb was probly better, so today I put the diaphrams, needles and seats in my old carb after taking it apart and soaking it in Sea Foam for 4 days. It started like a champ. With the Filter and airbox cover off it rips. (This is all on the center stand) when I put the cover on it dogs out at about 4500 RPM --- air starved, me thinks. Just a note, I have not synced yet. I saw some talk on here about drilling th airbox and some hopping up procedures, could some of my parts be needing the airbox drilled or... Any observations are welcome. Thanks D
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    Thanks for the explanation
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    Yup, it works pretty well and I can see that the valve shuts off the fuel and that the floats, float. Now I will put the carbs together and on the bike. D
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    Hello All, Iam getting my carbs in shape on my '87. In the process of cleaning, testing etc., I wanted to make sure the floats and needles seem to be working right so I took each carb, put it in a shallow tub and hooked it up to the fuel pump on the bike, with the float bowl cover off, to see that the float would, in fact, float an shut fuel off. OK, I assumed the the fuel pump would just pump, and pump until the float shut the fuel off. Is there any reason why I would have to turn the key off, and then turn it on again to get the pump to pump a little more. It will pump for about 5 seconds and then turn off, until I turn the key off and then turn it on again. If this is a normal function, maybe a safety feature since the bike is not running or something than all and well, but if there is a problem with the fuel pump, or something, I just wan to know. Thanks a bunch D
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    Great suggestions, I now have a plan of action for tomorrow. Thanks Seb
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    Hello all, Working through my "87 project, coming along well. I got a set of rebuilt carbs for a deal and put them on, been reading all of the threads on adjusting, very interesting indeed. So, I have it running fairly well, but to do it I have the idle mixture screws out about 4 or five turns, I know that is not right, but for now that is where they are. I worked through adjusting the butterflys according to one of the threads, and now it will start pretty well, and doesn't crack and pop so badly on throttling down. Here is what I am noticing now though -- It was smoking when I was running it tonight (All of this is just running on the center stand) so I took the flashlight to see what and why. Well there is gas dripping out of at least one of the hoses that come out of the top of the carbs, some kind of overflow for the bowl I'm guessing. So I shut her down right now. Don't need to burn my bike down, right. So any insight, what does this mean and what should I do about it? Of course I am working toward getting them syncronized, but for now this is where I am Thanks for all of your help David
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    Hello all, Well, my bodywork on my '87 is coming along pretty good, have half the parts painted, but in taking off the left saddle bag, it is pretty bad. If anyone has one they would be willing to part with, could you let me know. I don't need the lid or hardware. Thanks D
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    Hi All, Still working on the '87, coming along. Alot of the engine has, what I would call, agold patina to is, from years of oil and stuff I guess. Waht would be a way of cleaning and polishing the aluminum, to give closer to a new look? Thanks D:confused24:
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