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  1. dingy
    It's not easy being marcarl,,,,but someone Should do it. Gary
  2. dingy
    And another thing. I still have the pistons, rings and crank out of my 1200. Had 38,000 on it and was running great. I put a 1300 in it. If you find they have to be replaced let me know, these can be yours cheap. Gary
  3. dingy
    I thought maybe the 1200 VMax rings would fit, but they won't. Ring groove widths are different per the service manual. Gary
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    Noise

    dingy replied to Art708's topic in Watering Hole

    You RSV guys are so lucky, your bikes talk to you ! ! You all call it whining, but think of it as a lovely wife. It's constructive criticism. My old decrepit junk heap of a 1st gen, can't hear a friggin thing from it. The wind noise rushing by is so bad I wouldn't know if it was saying anything. Gary
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    It just takes a mechanic that's better than average to work on a classic. Sometimes it takes a little more work than running down to the Yamaha shop to get a new part. Gary
  6. dingy
    Possibly If left were open on all three contacts, center closed on two contacts and spring loaded right closed all three contacts. Gary
  7. dingy
    From looking at the RSV owners manual, pages are attached below, it appears the switch powers the system up when pressed to the right. It appears that it then returns to center position, and maintains power to the system. When the switch is pressed to the right it powers down the system. In order to replace this switch, you probably would need two 'off the shelf' switches. switch. As I have said in the past, I don't have an RSV, so this is just by looking at the wiring diagram & owners manual. I could draw a diagram up to do this if you need it. Gary
  8. dingy
    Attached is a simplified version of only the RSV cruise related circuits. It may help you decide what you want to do. Gary
  9. dingy
    The clutch slave is one of those items you might not want to get from Ebay. The positioning of the slave cylinder is one of those 'out of sight, out of mind' items. It very likely has a tendency to not be properly maintained. The collection of sediment and or water in there has caused problems in two of them I have seen. Partshark.com has a new housing for $65. Not real cheap, but not bad if you get a pitted on of ebay and it won't hold pressure. Gary
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    The North Dakota Department of Labor claimed a small Bismarck farmer was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to investigate. Department of Labor employee: I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them. Farmer: Well, there's my farm hand that’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $200 a week plus free room and board. Then there's the mentally challenged worker. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally. Department of Labor employee: That's the guy I want to talk to...the mentally challenged one. Farmer: That would be me.
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    Hey boomer

    dingy replied to BIG TOM's topic in Watering Hole

    I may hate myself for asking this when I hear the answer, but, How the heck do you know what "PYGMIE PEE" looks like? Gary
  12. dingy
    Maybe, maybe not. The plug can be changed. That is assuming you have three wires as a Venture stator has. There is the possibility that the previous owner (PO) changed the plug due to the somewhat common problem of these plugs having a meltdown. Attached is a picture of an 83 stator. Gary
  13. dingy
    Here is a different angle of the picture mbrood posted above. The copper wiper arm in the center of the picture, rubs along the left side of the wire wound resistor as shown in picture. A known problem with this is the resistor tends to bow in the middle causing the wiper arm to lose contact. At the very left of the picture, there is a small screw that can be loosened to adjust the wiper arm contact tension. Gary http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/gdingy101/PICT5655s.jpg
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    If you would like to get rid of it, I am interested in it. What is the brand or web site you found it on? Gary
  15. dingy
    Dan/Randy Do you need a 1200 transmission? I still have the one that came out of my 83 1200. It never had any symptoms of jumping out of second. If the thrust washer were to be changed I think it would be fine. 38,370 miles Gary
  16. dingy
    Not really sure how the battery will weather that incident. I would be concerned about the windings in the starter though. They had to receive as much current as the battery did. Here is a link to a thread about cleaning the switch that stuck. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42433 Gary
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    Have you ever wondered where and how yodeling began? Many years ago a man was traveling through the mountains of Switzerland. Nightfall was rapidly approaching and he had nowhere to sleep. He went up to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the night. The farmer told him that he could sleep in the barn. As the story goes, the farmer's daughter asked her father, "Who is that man going into the barn?" "That fellow traveling through," said the farmer. "needs a place to stay for the night, so, I told him he could sleep in the barn." The daughter said, "Perhaps he is hungry." So she prepared a plate of food for him and then took it out to the barn. About an hour later, the daughter returned. Her clothing disheveled and straw in her hair. Straight up to bed she went. The farmer's wife was very observant. She then suggested that perhaps the man was thirsty. So she fetched a bottle of wine, took it out to the barn, and she too did not return for an hour. Her clothing was askew, her blouse buttoned incorrectly. She also headed straight to bed. The next morning at sunrise the man in the barn got up and continued on his journey, waving to the farmer as he left. When the daughter awoke and learned that the visitor was gone, she broke into tears. "How could he leave without even saying goodbye," she cried. "We made such passionate love last night!" "What?" shouted the father as he angrily ran out of the house looking for the man, who by now was halfway up the mountain. The farmer screamed up at him, "I'm going to get you! You had sex with my daughter!" The man looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hand next to his mouth, and yelled out..... "LAIDTHEOLADEETOO"
  18. dingy
    Here is a link to thread showing how to dismantle and maybe reassemble the Hi-Lo switch assembly on an MKII. Do not try in your sleep or after 4 cups of coffee, some small parts in there. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42721 Gary
  19. dingy
    T R Y = 3 letters Gary
  20. dingy
    That is way too big of a word for most of us on here, try to stay under 6 letters per word. Gary
  21. dingy
    Are these what you are looking for? If they are, make me an outrageously high offer, and they can be yours. I still have the side covers and taking them off would leave the mount holes in the side covers, but I am not using them. Bike has been slightly modified in that area. Gary http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/gdingy101/PICT3981s.jpg
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    The thread below has a PDF file attached that shows the circuit schematics before and after to complete the RSV ignition bypass that carbon_one linked to in the previous post. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43150 It is the last three pages in this PDF file that deal with the switch mod. Gary
  23. dingy
    Meters have many settings and places to plug in the leads to get the correct readings. You must read AC voltage at the alternator plug. Below is connection you need to check, sorry about focus, usually I do better. Its 8 degrees here now. It is the female pin side of the plug. Also, do not read the wires with the meter set to Ohms when the bike is running, this may damage the meter. To read the ground values, set the meter to the ohms scale and touch the two leads together. It should read zero if it is a digital style. If it is an analog (has a needle), there is usally an adjustment knob on the face of the meter that you turn to get the meter to read 0 to the right side of the scale. If it is analog and won't zero out, this is an indication the battery in the meter needs changed. Then to check the to ground resistance, clip one of the meter leads to the stator cover, really does not matter which one. With the other lead touch each of the three connector pins shown in the picture. You should read an open on all three leads to ground, if not there is almost for sure an issue with the stator. Very possibly pinched leads somewhere. If any one of the leads is grounded, you will read a ground on all three leads, due to they are tied together after running through the windings inside the stator. It will just vary slightly due to the coil resistance. This is unless, one of the leads is open by chance. Gary
  24. dingy
    Attached is the charging system pages from the MKII service manual (86-93). Procedures and test numbers are identical for the MKI's (83-85) As frank said, check your wires to ground. Check all three of them one at a time. This is one of the times I like to have an Analog Ohm meter (one with a needle).. If you have an analog meter, set it to a medium to high range, like 1k or 10K ohms. You should read open on all three wires to ground. The cover over the stator is a good place to check to, because it is this cover that they will most likely be grounded to. Between each pair of the three white wires coming from stator (there are 3 combination's) you should read 0.36 to 0.48 ohms each time. Each of these wires goes to one coil in the stator, then the other end of the 3 coils are tied together. So when you read between any two wires, you are actually reading through two coils. As bkuhr said, subtracting the stator lead and meter lead resistance is helpful .This can be confusing to determine this value though. I think it is more important that all three pairs have the same reading. This reading is so low that it can vary depending on the temperature. From what I have found, between any two of the alternator wires, you should read at least 20 Volts AC at idle, this will increase to 50 or more volts at higher RPM's, Gary
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    84 Carb ?

    dingy replied to tufftom4's topic in Watering Hole

    Hope you are right Earl, I have ran my 1300 motor with a set of MKI carbs all summer. Larger main jets in and an air jet change. Hoping the MKII set makes a difference. I take it you do not have the carb slider I PM'd you about? Gary
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