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    What did you do to your venture today?

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    Posted · Edited by s.tyler58

    I pick up Venture this morning before my shop mechanic heads off to have a free drink on Warren Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting tonight. I thought I was helping to feed his family, turns out he was getting rich! We have most of the richest people in the world in town this weekend. Anyway, the new back tire is on and the kickstand is fixed so now I've still got to deal with some leaking Forks but I only have 5 weight oil in there I'm hoping changing that to 10 and running a piece of film down inside will clean up the seal. Also right now I'm only getting 3 cylinders firing at idle but the number 4 (It's early and I can't remember right now, is it 3 or 4 that's the right side foward cylinder?)starts firing above idle and runs okay so the mechanic says run a tank of seafoam through and see what happens

     

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    Shoulder surgery

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    S.Tyler I've tried several times to respond to your post. 3 truths? Hit me. I'm ready........ I think.
    It hurts like nothing else.

     

    You have to push through rehab Faithfully in spite of the pain.

     

    You will ultimately be happy that you did it.

     

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    Saturday and bored.

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    Correction/explanation necessary.

     

    When we said "That's OUR Bike..." we had forgotten the changed paint scheme in our inserted photo.

     

    A local Detailer owed us serious coin for advts., and suckered us into accepting a "Gorgeous" custom paint job in dark, dark green as payment for the Overdues. Our Rhonda's original color was exactly the same as Ty's, and the new green version was borderline AWFUL. Lessons learned; at least we got him off The Books.

     

    Rgds, WRIDR

    We have more than bikes in common. I started working at 10 years old scooping lead shavings out from under the linotype! Sorting leads and slugs, setting hand type headlines, pulling proofs on the proof press. Until I turned 30, I was a fourth-generation typesetter in a family of small newspaper owners. Your story about being owed advertising money brings to mind how my dad often tells the story how as a kid everybody would get to lineup for the relief trucks when they came to town but not him and his brother and sister. Grandpa owned the newspaper in the car dealers still had money for advertising so dad was never poor enough to get relief. They never had money but they always had somebody owed him something! I was actually a professional proofreader in 6th grade!

     

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    Shoulder surgery

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    I spent 23 years providing Orthopedic rehab equipment in homes for rotator cuffs, total knee replacements, anything to do with a joint or muscles or injuries. Sports injuries. For a lot of years my fleet of knee CPM machines was over 160 machines in use/day either in homes or hospitals. Helped hundreds of RC repair patients. Western IA and all of NE.

     

    How short, sweet, honest and breifly would you be up to hearing 3 truths about shoulder surgery based on my experience?

     

    Here's where I was the last 10 uears...

    https://www.orthotekinc.com/

     

     

     

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    Saturday and bored.

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    Man I really have missed those Windjammer fairings. Those were the days you could "build your own" touring bike. I dont think anybody makes an aftermarket frame mount fairing now.
    In the spring of O9 I was actually able to contact the Windjammer inventor/ builder guy's wife and bought four of the rubber trunk mount new from her!

     

    I really never got her together enough to be confident to ride more than an afternoon or so away from home and back. And it was just too short in the legs for me. Too close to the ground and I couldn't get my foot pegs far enough away to just be comfortable hour after hour like I can on my Venture.

     

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    Saturday and bored.

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    After a minute in the deep freeze, it's warmed up to around 40 Degrees today. Another Saturday of standing in the garage getting the 83 fired up and running for a bit. It's not going to be too much longer before we can get out again. Guess I better get that new rear tire ordered and on because it's so sad to miss that "First, Great, Lovin' Life, Gorgeous day filled with the promise of Spring"!

     

    Anyway, I ran across these photo's of my '80 1100 Goldwing from 2009. To see her now, I realize how little appreciation for the excellent condition she was in! In my ignorance, and before sinking super dumb money in the Venture, I let her go cheap because I didn't have interweb friends like you and she was just too expensive for me at the time to pay to do the seemingly minor mechanical work that she needed.

     

    I like the Venture much more except for missing the access to storage on that Jammer! I also loved the sound of that little four through those Jardin headers. Like a dune-buggy!

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    Winter checks

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    I plan to do all that with a valve shimming, steering head bearings, swing arm bearings, and wheel bearings. Getting ready to order parts from Skydoc now. Don't forget carb synch. Will probably look at fuel pump points while I'm at it.
    Wonder if SkyDoc ever made any 1st Gen anti-dive covers this year?

     

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    1st Gen Tire Preference

    in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)

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    Hey Everbody! Missed you all! I'm on my third job this year so riding wasn't the priority that it seemed like before March got here. Then I ran down my Shinko 230 on rear at about 5K by May. Budget crisis has had me doing 50 to 70 mile trips on it still but only when I couldn't stand to see her sitting around the garage. Now I'm ready to replace that tire and thinking of doing the E4 on rear. Will it be ok with a barely worn 230 on front?

     

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    I'm perplexed...Tire unseats at stoplight

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    Yep,, we sure did VAz,,, and,,, IMHO,,, not a pretty picture.. Having experienced riding down a few of these puppies with flat has taught me a couple of things,, one of them being that givin the choice,, I prefer to never have to do that again so I like to make sure those rim beads are clean as a whistle when I spoon on a new tire,, just another IMHO of course..

    Personally,, due to the low prices on some really awesome shoes,,, if the tire had been rolled enough to pop a bead once it was flat,, I wouldnt risk it,, I would replace it and this time I would stick a Shinko 230 Tourmaster on it - they have earned the spot in being my favorite bargin bin tire,,, just another of my opinions I reckon..

    Due to what I am reading here,,, while swapping on the new tire and in the process of cleaning up the wheel,, as shown in one of the attached vids,, I would also replace the valve stem.. I know there will be tons of opinions on does and don'ts on this process too but what I show has worked for me over a few tire swaps...

     

     

     

     

    I have never been able to find Part 2 in your series.

     

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    Very rich smelling exhaust

    in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)

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    Something to check is the spark plug wire where it screws into the cap. The copper core wire tends to corrode and usually snipping off 3/4" of wire and screwing it back in resolves the issue.

     

    My bad! I didn't read where you replaced the wires and caps! Have the valves been adjusted recently?

    You're bad again! Hahaha! I also wrote that the valves were adjusted in January or winter. With new valve cover gaskets. Although, sound of the valves on my number 2 cylinder seem somewhat chatty.

     

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    Very rich smelling exhaust

    in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)

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    Whew!

     

    41,000

    Better. I ran out of full fuel tank twice at 125/128 miles last year. I stopped carrying a gallon this spring because pretty consistently at 155 I had better have a plan.

     

    Stock OEM rebuild kit.

     

    Air cleaner in good shape.

     

    No on the popping out of air cleaner.

     

    I have never measured compression or coils before but might be able to borrow devices needed to do so for the first time. I'm hesitant to reply to your question with, I'm not able! I'm just inexperienced.

     

    New in January, wires and caps. Valve's adjusted and gaskets replaced.

     

    Running red TCI unit out of the Netherlands.

     

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    Very rich smelling exhaust

    in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)

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    Try leaning out the idle mixture screws a tad. An exhaust analyzer is needed to set them correctly. And some have added a thin washer to the diaghragm shafts to lean those out. Cowpuc added some to Tweeks a few years ago. You might find the thread if you do a search. The enrichment diaphragms could need replacing too maybe?
    I'll have to check my parts list from my mechanic but I was pretty sure he put all new stuff into my carbs in January.

     

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    Very rich smelling exhaust

    in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)

    Posted · Edited by s.tyler58

    So here's the deal, my 83 in my estimation is running quite well this summer. However my exhaust smells very rich and my gas mileage is around 30 to 32 MPG. It does sound as if there's a very slight popping at highway speeds but not like a consistent miss or not firing cylinder. Having never been around another V4 or having anyone with experience with them around give me advice. I really wish someone could ride this thing and tell me how I'm progressing and how I can get rid of that seemingly wasted fuel somehow. Carburetors we were rebuilt this winter and synced a couple months ago and have remained consistent. Like have said before, as far as I know she's running hard and fast when I ask her to so I'm puzzled by the why it would smell like that. Smells like full choke exhaust or something.

     

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