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Would someone scan the wiring schematic that is in the back of the owners manual and post it or email to me please. I need a 83-85 Venture Royale schematic. I have a stock 83 Venture and am going to put cruise in from a 84 venture. I have the wiring harness that I may use to replace mine. I want to look at the schematic and see if there are any differences in the connectors besides the dash hookups. I think the brake/clutch switches are different also. Thanks dingy101@live.com

Gear position Indicator upgradefor standard Ventures (Non-Royales) I have installed a gear position indicating system on my 1983 Venture. This is the stock model without the dash readout from the factory. This is the second Venture I have owned. The first one was a 1984 Royale. Two of the things I really miss from that bike were the gear indicator and the cruise control. The cruise control is coming later. I have all of the stock parts now needed to install it. I obtained a Neutral Switch Assembly from a 1984 Venture Royal through an Ebay auction for under $10.00. This assembly will exchange with the stock neutral switch assembly from a standard Venture. The neutral switch assembly is located between the back end of the stator cover and the front of the middle drive. It sets back in about four inches and is difficult to see, but is accessible. Removal of the middle drive cover is needed to access. To indicate what gear the bike is in I mounted three LED lights in the gauge cluster above the volt gauge. The left light is lit it indicates 1st gear. The left light and the center lights lit indicate 2nd gear. The center light lit indicates 3rd gear. The center light and right lights lit indicate 4th gear. The right light lit indicates 5th gear. The neutral light works as normal. In neutral none of the LED’s are lit. I could also use five LED’s, using one for each gear, but I like the 3 light system as it is easy to see and once familiar with the pattern, it is very easy to determine what gear I am in with a quick glance down at the gauges. I initially used a red, green and amber LED’s but the green and amber had poor visibility in the daytime. I replaced with all red ones. I also painted the part of the LED’s that are inside of the cluster with black paint to keep the light from the instrument cluster from bleeding through the LED’s translucent housing. I used four diodes and three LED’s from radio shack for the light logic circuit. Four IN4004 rectifier diodes. Price $.99 for two Three Red LED assemblies. Price $1.99 each The new Neutral Switch Assembly has a six pin plug on the end that sets in the same area that the stator and rectifier plugs are near the fuel pump. I had two spare diode assemblies that I have obtained in the past and used the plug from one of these to mate up with the plug on the Neutral Switch cable. I had to take one extra wire connector from the second diode assy. As the diode assembly plug only used five wires. You do not need to use this connector if you do not want to though. I retained this plug as I will be replacing the wiring harness when I install the cruise control. I put the diodes in the circuit near the plug connections on the end of the neutral switch assy. I then ran three 18 gauge wires up to the instrument cluster. I used a trailer four conductor plug I had to make a connection at the instrument panel. I have attached a PDF file with pictures and a wiring schematic to install this.

Gear position Indicator upgradefor standard Ventures (Non-Royales) I have installed a gear position indicating system on my 1983 Venture. This is the stock model without the dash readout from the factory. This is the second Venture I have owned. The first one was a 1984 Royale. Two of the things I really miss from that bike were the gear indicator and the cruise control. The cruise control is coming later. I have all of the stock parts now needed to install it. I obtained a Neutral Switch Assembly from a 1984 Venture Royal through an Ebay auction for under $10.00. This assembly will exchange with the stock neutral switch assembly from a standard Venture. The neutral switch assembly is located between the back end of the stator cover and the front of the middle drive. It sets back in about four inches and is difficult to see, but is accessible. Removal of the middle drive cover is needed to access. To indicate what gear the bike is in I mounted three LED lights in the gauge cluster above the volt gauge. The left light is lit it indicates 1st gear. The left light and the center lights lit indicate 2nd gear. The center light lit indicates 3rd gear. The center light and right lights lit indicate 4th gear. The left light lit indicates 5th gear. The neutral light works as normal. In neutral none of the LED’s are lit. I could also use five LED’s, using one for each gear, but I like the 3 light system as it is easy to see and once familiar with the pattern, it is very easy to determine what gear I am in with a quick glance down at the gauges. I initially used a red, green and amber LED’s but the green and amber had poor visibility in the daytime. I replaced with all red ones. I also painted the part of the LED’s that are inside of the cluster with black paint to keep the light from the instrument cluster from bleeding through the LED’s translucent housing. I used four diodes and three LED’s from radio shack for the light logic circuit. Four IN4004 rectifier diodes. Price $.99 for two Three Red LED assemblies. Price $1.99 each The new Neutral Switch Assembly has a six pin plug on the end that sets in the same area that the stator and rectifier plugs are near the fuel pump. I had two spare diode assemblies that I have obtained in the past and used the plug from one of these to mate up with the plug on the Neutral Switch cable. I had to take one extra wire connector from the second diode assy. As the diode assembly plug only used five wires. You do not need to use this connector if you do not want to though. I retained this plug as I will be replacing the wiring harness when I install the cruise control. I put the diodes in the circuit near the plug connections on the end of the neutral switch assy. I then ran three 18 gauge wires up to the instrument cluster. I used a trailer four conductor plug I had to make a connection at the instrument panel. I have attached a PDF file with pictures and a wiring schematic to install this.

Tim, I have retitled the listing on Ebay as you requested. I have also entered the following lines to the description. The idea for this kit came from the VentureRider.org website. 5% of any proceeds from this auction will be donated to that web site. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170377748373&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT Gary

Hello, I am the one that has the headlight kit on ebay. After seeing the picture that Tim posted on 3/13 of his mock up for the headlight upgrade, I followed this thread waiting for the chance to get one for my 83 Venture. I checked back to this thread very often to see any progress. He did not post again until this morning in this thread. I am a private individual doing this. I do not believe I did any thing illegal by taking something that was posted on the internet and making my own version of it. If Tim has a patent on this I will remove this item from Ebay. As far as copyright, I did not use anything in this thread other than seeing a picture to make this kit. Tim, I apologize to you for not contacting you about my kit prior to putting it on Ebay. On 8/10 I had the opportunity to buy two sets of the projector lamps that are used in this kit. I did so with the intent of installing them in my Venture. I could only buy the lamps in pairs, two low beams as a set & two high beams as a set. I have access to Solidworks 2009 3D cad software. I designed a mounting system to incorporate these lamps into my bike. I have been doing this type of work for about 30 years now. I have plenty of time to do this as I am not working due to health reasons. The firm that I used to be Engineering manager at produced the plates on a Strippit turret punch for me. I had two of each plate ran since I was going to have a pair of lamps leftover. I put a kit up for sale on Ebay to try to recover some of my costs. Tim mentioned in his first post that the low beam should be mounted on the right side. It is mounted on the right side of the bike. This is the same mounting position as several other bikes have using this system. I do not think that mounting it 4" to the left will make any noticeable improvement. Gary

Thank you for the replies !! Gary

What is the correct location of the thick washer on the right side of rear axle? Is it against the wheel hub or against the swing arm? This affects the rear caliper arm mounting position. The service manual does not clearly show this that I can find. Thanks, Gary gary@dinges.com