luvmy40
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28450 mi. +/- if the odometer is to be believed. As clean as everything is, I don't doubt it.
What's the maint. period for valve clearance check?
Please tell me the shims are 29mm!
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Oh yeah, it's missing one of the exhaust turn downs.
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So these are shim over buckets? The guy I bought it from told me the valves were adjustable rockers.
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I may have had my "New Bike Goggles" on when I test rode this one. It was near perfect for the short test run but after the shake down run including near highway speed, it's developed a hesitation and is popping on deceleration. It accelerates smooth but surges and ebbs when maintaining a constant speed. It feels ignition related to me but I've never dealt with a liquid cooled V4 before.
When I first got my Suzuki GS850, it felt nearly the same. I potted new wires into the coils and it's run fine ever since.
Minor things need some work. The right side hard bag's mounting lock cylinder is gummed up and I cant get the key in it. The trunk's lights are hard wired with no disconnect so even when I figure out how to remove it, I can't. The lock for the gas fill cover has pulled through the plastic and has been repaired once. It needs done right. The center console cover's rear mounting tab is busted off. That should be an easy fix for a Kydex Bender Extraordinaire. Pretty minor considering the age of the bike. I've fixed worse on newer bikes before.
I'm on the hunt for a factory service manual for now.
Here she is!
Working the bugs out New(to me)'83 XVZ12t
in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
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I meant the shim diameter. I have a fairly large stock of 29mm diameter shims from my XJ bikes. It looks like the Venture shims are 25mm dia. The local Yamaha shop is really great about helping the DIY mechs and they offer free shim trades so that's not really a huge deal for me.
I have the Morgan Carb Tune and Color Tune and have set up more than a few carb banks for myself and others. I'm just new to this model.
I'll probably run some Seafoam for a couple tanks and see if there is any improvement. I should be able to clear enough room to tear the plastics off and do the valves, sync the carbs and give her a general check up in the next month or so.