Marcarl

Kind of hard to let go though,, isn't it. It'll come, slowly but surely,, until you run into another happening.

I would do a real close check on the battery cables, making sure that they are super clean and tight, not only the clamps on the battery, but also the clamps to the cables. Then I would clean the other ends of the cables making sure they are tight as well. If you are doubtful of the solenoid I would suggest replacing that as well and then check out the operation of the start switch by doing a by-pass. As an aside, the engine will not suck fuel out of the tank, the tank is too low for that to happen, so your fuel pump must have been working to some extent, or you might have plugged filters.

lookin good,,,carry on McDuff!

Can't really say we have no interest, after all, we already have what we want, mostly. That's why we are on this site. That doesn't take away from the look of the scoot though,, it looks awesome!

I don't know, I wasn't there.

Don't have any idea what you are talking about...did it happen today or yesterday and where was it when it flew away.

I see some have one on the handle bars, hang in there, somebody might even give you directions.

With the load you are putting on I would go to 40 lbs. 38 might be creating too much heat.

Got them from Puc already.

Just so that you can feel better informed, Dutch Navigator is not German,and by the looks of what he (they) built and refurbished they are not butchers either. Now I give them credit, they do have music and good choice,, after all it seems to be DUTCH!

SMART!!! Where did you learn that now?

Soory about that Semi. I was missing the last few days, but even so it seems that our fellow inmates have you covered off rather well. But in answer to your original question, I don't know for sure but would guess about 1/2 quart too full.

So does that mean you have new tires? are tired again? or asking to start a thread on tires for another round of discussion. Maybe you should get some sleep, you can get tired if you don't sleep enough,, but you'll find that out soon enough. If you mean you don't have to go to your place of employment anymore then don't be thinking that you won't have work to do. Have a great time trying to get in some R&R in-between all the new projects. Please update us in 6 months. Congrats.

So much for saying that a Venture will run on anything, of course being 10 years old shows that the owner is a real, honest to goodness Dutchman.

Sounds about right, at least for the first time anyways. From there a feller can create once he's got a bit of a handle on things. Can't rush good cookin.

Eating club with a riding disorder, just so you know, otherwise ask @Squidley. Amazon.ca. Less than $20

Good point, and clean out the airboxes of any oil residue. Then clean ALL oil deposits, nice and clean and then clean again before anything else. The run the bike for a bit on the side stand, don't ride yet or the air stream will make it harder to follow the trail. Then maybe run it on the center stand or bike stand.

We bought one of these last year. Nice thing about it is that you can smoke without adding any heat. We have a Traeger pellet grill, but although it does well it didn't give me enough smoke for my liking. With this you can cold smoke, so cheese is now also in the running. Fish turns out amazing. Caution though, in order to best best effective your grill needs to be blocked at the top, so the upper vent needs to be below the grill itself, or you will have to block it off with some tinfoil.

Unless somebody else has other ideas, pull the pan and see how it fares out, worst case if it don't go back together you'll then have to pull the engine. Nothing lost then

I never needed to get that bearing out of there, but by the looks of your pictures it should come straight off once you loosen the 3screws and that might give more info as to why and where the balls went. The plastic gear might have been damaged by somebody jamming the clutch basket back in place,,,,, maybeand then a real big maybe that a piece of the gear took out the bearing. As far as removing the oil pan while still in the bike???? I wouldn't. I think you would be better off taking it out. Getting it off would not be the issue so much as getting things back together proper.

Further, I think it might be the oil pump idler part #26H-13351-01-00

If memory serves me correct I think there is a plastic gear behind the clutch basket and it's yellow, and I agree with @cowpucthat anything laying under the basket is not engine internal.

I really hope that he had found the way to everlasting peace, he didn't have much of that when he was here. Hope to be meeting him again in much better environment.

You KILLED 'em! They were supposed to be dead already.