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Here are a couple of pictures of #19 campsite and of the mens and womens bath house
So, did you walk in woman's bathroom too and take pics?!?
If you go to this thread, there is a map of the campground and more pics of other sites.
http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=78781
-Andrew
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It comes down to this:
How many times do you want to remove your engine from the frame?
If you pull your engine and rebuild it, and also check (and fix) to make sure you won't encounter the 2nd gear issue in another year or so? That would be one engine removal and your bike will probably last a long time.
If you swap out the parts engine (w/o opening it) you might get a gem or a problem waiting to be discovered. That would be either one engine swap or 2 (or more) if issues pop up.
Now if it was me (not a lot of money, limited free time, and the know-how to pull it myself), I'd run it as is until I could save up a few bucks and search the interweb for a great deal on a newer known good running motor (because of the fixed 2nd gear and the extra 100cc), which is what I did for mine. I don't want to go back inside my motor ever again, I'll get a 2nd gen before I pull or split my motor again.
Good luck with whatever you choose to do.
-Andrew
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The patches...will need to go thru Homeland Security...
Good thing they don't have to got thru the TSA or they would be felt patches...
-Andrew
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You might just want to go ahead and order that new part right away, if your old one is like mine, that metal tab was so fatigued it snapped off when I tried bending it back in place. I had to replace mine.
-Andrew
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Jeff's tent makes Orlin's huge white shed look like a chicken coop.
Jeff, Ringling Bros called, they want their tent back.
Jeff needs a building permit to set-up his tent.
You can fit the Mall of America inside Jeff's tent.
Jeff's tent has it's own zip code.
Ok, enough of that. Can't wait Orlin, less than 2 weeks to go!
-Andrew
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...I have tried to take apart ______ ...and after taking _____ apart there was no way I could see to put it back together.
How come that seems to happen a lot to many of my projects?!? (Just fill in the blanks with whatever I'm trying to fix.)
Alvald, if other offers of parts fall thru, I have a spare '83 dash, I don't know the condition of the speedo/odo, I could swap it out on my bike to test it out first. PM me if interested.
-Andrew
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Might be a hard to find item. Not sure if you saw this thread:
http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=79026
Plus his website is now down (wagnercustomproducts dot com), so there probably isn't any new stock left, and it sounds like those who have a Wagner Grill probably won't part with it. Hope someone gives you a lead on one tho.
-Andrew
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You read these tips and think "Now why didn't I think of that, it's so simple." Thanks for the tip, going to do this soon, will be taking the gauges off to re-solder the connections (again), turning the high beam on causes the white headlight warning light to come on.
-Andrew
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As far as I can remember, I don't think I've ever killed it accidentally. I use that switch to stop the bike all the time, tho, so maybe I subconsciously know it's there and don't hit it, even while wearing thick gloves. Now the hi-beam switch, I'm hitting that all the time.
-Andrew
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Flyinfool (Jeff) has a great writeup on his HID installation and wiring, I know there are others that have done it but I bookmarked his thread for when I do mine. You can ask him questions, but right now he's on his way to Freebird's MD, probably on another gas break.
Here's a link to his thread: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=45603
-Andrew
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I too say FI is nice. But I also know that FI has stumbled along the way too. I know of some vehicles that their FI system is poorly designed and has a tendency to fail, and often. But for the most part FI has come a long ways and is quite reliable.
After work in the parking lot, you know who has FI and who has to choke theirs. FI starts right up, no high revs as the engine warms up and you have to let in the choke, but not too much or it dies off. So my vote is in the FI box.
-Andrew
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That looks like a great idea, I'll have to swing by my HF and check them out.
-Andrew
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That is sad.
Sometimes I wonder if any of those biker-only crashes happened as the result of them trying to avoid a cager, with the cager having no clue what-so-ever that they ended a life.
-Andrew
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Ok, if I'm gone on a long weekend and don't get to look at the site for a few days, there are numeous "new posts". I click on the "new posts" and up pop maybe 5-9 pages worth of new stuff for me to look at. But if I don't get thru all those pages within a hour or so, it then comes up with the search not found (or something like that). If I do "new posts" again, it shows only the few that have happened in that hour I've been on.
I know there is a "Today's Posts" button, but many are older than that so they don't show up. I don't want to search every forum for what I missed, and I can't find a setting that increases the time limit before it makes new posts to old posts.
Any buttons or search feature that I might have missed? Or am I doomed to search forums one-by-one to find the new stuff, a pennance for me not being on here daily?
-Andrew
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But inquiring minds want to know, will it make a 2nd gen faster?!?!?
I have an '83 (no indicator available) and I dropped in a '88 engine that had the gear indicator switch. I now have a '84 gauge cluster that I want to install so I can have the gear indicator. All I gotta do is re-wire the connectors (I got them with the gauges) and all should be good.
-Andrew
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fishrepair, what size does it say on the temp spare? Been pondering it, just want to know the size (other than it's a 16"...)
-Andrew
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I know what is needed! Spike strips! A fold-out parking lot space size rectangle that causes flats to anyone who pulls too close to your bike. Do some damage to those who try and damage your vehicle.
-Andrew
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Funny thing, I got a free e-mail address from Yahoo long before I got my own computer. Everyone always uses that e-mail, so I never set up microsoft outlook, nor do I use my dsl mail. Yahoo spam seems to always catch those DSL, UPS, FedEx, USPS scams so the only time I see them is when I check my spam to see if a legitimate e-mail got spammed accidentally.
-Andrew
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I did a Demo Day a year ago or so, the CC is a very nice ride, I'd get one. But I do like the Vision too, as the fixed fairing is what I prefer. Funny thing, as big as the Vision's bags look, they have a surprisingly smaller space than the CC's bags.
-Andrew
p.s. Only thing was when I tried to wind those V-twins out like a Yamaha, I bounced off the rev limiter...
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This is what my drive shaft gear looked like. The red is what is missing off the teeth. Yours probably is worse as I was still riding with mine.
-Andrew
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If I had to do it again, I would go with a whole engine swap. Less hassle, easier to do, and you don't have to worry if you forgot to put something back in and have to pop it open again
. I'm not saying that it's overly difficult to replace 2nd gear, I'm just saying to me it's worth it to do a whole engine swap and skip most of the headache. Hindsight is 20/20.-Andrew
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Well, it's been a while since I added to this thread. Last year I rode it a bunch and didn't really do much more to it. Early this spring, I snagged a parts bike that had a bunch of chrome on it, plus I got a set of floorboards from Orlin. I have been slowly adding the parts on, making my bike a "safety chrome" bike. I also got a 4-brush starter and a new AGM battery, so my starting issues are now gone. I have a few more mechanical issues to touch up, then I can start on the cosmetic issues, like all the cracking & missing tabs, plus get it a decent paint job. Ignore the dirt & duct tape in the pics.
-Andrew
Pics:
1. Blue parts bike
2. Chrome bumper
3. Rotor & caliper cover
4. Floorboard (need to reposition brake better)
5. Floorboard & shifter (need to relink, shift pattern is backwards)
6. Glamour shot (missing floorboards tho)
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SUCCESS! Looking thru ebay, I found a used one that they said was from a '97 V-Max, but only had 1000 miles on it. Took a chance since it sounded like a 4-brush due to the SM-13 stamped in the end cap and no screws in the case. It was $67 shipped. Just popped it open to confirm that it had 4 brushes, and WOW, was it clean. So now I hope that once installed, I don't have any more starter issues. Now I need to do the fuse block mod.
-Andrew
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That is one very fine trailer.
... I wish I could weld like that. 1st I need a welder that would let me weld like that!!Would that be safe? I hear you have problems with simple kitchen utensils.
-Andrew
But inquiring minds want to know, will it make a 2nd gen faster?!?!?
Replacing the shift cam 83 Venture
in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
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If you drop your oil pan, you'll most likely see the pin in there. IIRC that's where mine was hiding, that ledge under the shifter cam drops off into the oil pan. Normal oil flow will wash it down, and it shouldn't get into anything (unless you flip your bike over, I suppose...)
-Andrew