Pasta Burner

Mid sixties in salt lake!

I think you’re going to need to pull the tailpipe

Yea I did it myself in a couple hours, I remember taking half a day off work because it was dripping in my garage and the wife was not too happy with the smell. Our bedroom is above the garage. Of course I had an almost full tank of gas 🙄. I siphoned what I could, and there was quite a bit left when I loosened the petcock screws, drained it into a cut up water jug I had laying around. Bottom line it made a mess, glad I did it in the driveway to hose it all down stream 🤫. I had to remove the tailpipe, which is easy just a time consuming. There was a bit of a learning curve getting the petcock out with the tube getting in the way. Unfortunately I don’t recall what I learned off hand. I was lucky and happened to have a Yamaha gasket that the PO had in the saddle bags. If I remember I did do a little sanding/scraping to clean up the mounting surfaces. Side note the petcock itself didn’t work and still doesn’t, I’m not concerned as it’s stuck on reserve. I don’t recall if I had it on the center stand or side stand, do what makes you comfortable.

My 87 was leaking from the petcock gasket this past spring.

By fuel bowel tap area are you referring to the diaphragm covers? Still learning carbs here.

I like your message. Unfortunately Fake News won’t report the Truth no matter how much they preach transparency. It’s sickening to be honest.

Rick is spot on, that is the the connector between the stator and regulator rectifier. I had the same issue you are describing last year. IMHO the connector just isn’t designed well enough to handle the current, as well it’s in an especially vulnerable spot to accumulate corrosion. I cut the connector off and soldered the wires together. Haven’t had an issue since, connection barely gets warm now. Remember to put your shrink sleeving on first . I’m pretty positive I did a lap & wrap joint.

Might be some good info in here

You might wanna move this to the first Gen forum. I’m not Familiar with the Mk1 but I do know there was an issue with second gear doing something odd and or not working.

I have all kinds of randomness with sentimental value taking up room it shouldn’t. If it’s gonna get a home and back on the road I’d send it on the journey. I’d have a hard time sending it to scrap though. Looks in fabulous shape from the picture.

Whoa! Happy you’re here to tell your tale.

Cool that was my question when I googled it last night, wondering exactly what will fit in there. Don’t want to loose a $20 mug cause it fell out of a $11 holder.

I’m actually looking forward to riding this winter here in northern Utah. Just bought a set of A Stars winter gloves, and decided my hunting boots should work nicely for my feets. Got layered insulated pants and recently discovered my lightweight gortex wind shirt fits nicely under my leather jacket for added protection. Unfortunately my heavyweight leather no longer fits my DadBod. Bonus is I recently remodeled our office space and I have privacy at my desk to change.

The air box just has four boots with hose clamps that fit onto each carb. Also there is a hose running in the rear middle bottom of the box to the breather below the carbs. Loosen that hose at the breather end. Then just lift it right off. I replaced the screws in my clamps as the heads were getting pretty wore out. Also unless you have freakishly small hands putting the breather hose back on is a pain in the ass.

Not a clue. Mac just seems to always work. But you have shivered my core knowing now that another “upgrade” shall be in my workplace soon.

Pretty cool work!

Yep! Seafoam is liquid magic!

I found I like it better on cyl #1 because the routing isn’t double backed.

Now thinking back those screws were a bitch. I had to remove the right side exhaust. I may have even used vise grips and replaced them with new screws. It was one of those oh shit projects when I went to work in the morning and discovered a bike leaking gas in the garage. Took some time off that day to come home and fix it, so I don’t remember exactly all what I did. I did however by chance acquire the bike with an oem petcock gasket in the saddlebag. I was going to suggest after getting the petcock out just flushing with a hose but I’d like someone else to chime in if that would harm them pump or float. I wouldn’t think so but for sure don’t want to give you bad advice.

Oooff sorry. I assumed you had the tank removed. I haven’t done it on my venture, haven’t had the need, but on my sport bike I ended up siphoning out all the gas I could, scooping out all the crud with paper towels and if memory serves correct I flushed it with water and paper towels or a sponge then flushed with water and shop vac it out once I had a good feeling the vapors weren’t going to be a problem. I don’t remember removing that tank but I could have. Regardless I did have all fuel and return lines disconnected as to not induce water into the system. Dried with towels and let it air dry before putting it back together. Just picturing in my mind the venture tank and small filler neck. I think removing it and doing a rinse would be best, to drain it maybe put a pan under the petcock area and loosen the screws and let it go. My petcock gasket failed this spring and that’s exactly what I ended up doing after I siphoned out as much as I could. It was messy but it is what it is sometimes.

Yep! Thanks I believe it was you Carl who got me fixed up. I gotta top a little more in, it occasionally yells at me it’s low for a few seconds.

My mystery leak was coming from the hose that goes to the breather under the air box. Let some oil out and the problem went away

I’ve just used water in the past following an ethanol attack.

This is why I asked where the hose goes…I’ve read all the conflicting documents and am still not sure. That being said, from a high level logical approach; if the carbs are synced it shouldn’t make any difference 123 or 4.

I ride my VR wearing a 3/4 with full visor. Has Bluetooth with mic and speakers installed. For talking to my pillion it’s ok, for music it’s better than nothing but not good. It’s not a high quality setup, was cheap and fit the bill. Personally I don’t like having music pumped directly into my ears, never have. I loose too much of my sensory surroundings. I replaced the bike speakers in the spring and that made a great improvement. I just crank up the volume, even with a 3/4 I do notice a difference with the visor up or down.