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Prairiehammer

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  1. On the way home from picking up my Venture, I experienced the same thing...towing a trailer. That losing the clutch release was startling, but trying to take off from the stop sign at the end of the off ramp...with a cop sitting there watching while I herky-jerky away was just plain embarrassing. A flush of the fluid with new fixed it, when I finally got home. But I stopped a couple times while trying to get home to bleed it. (I probably flushed all the old out just bleeding).
  2. Dan, I hope you are enjoying your birfday.
  3. Here is a link for Colorado Plastics where they tested acrylic and polycarbonate windshields with the pros and cons: http://www.coloradoplastics.com/blog-0/bid/42625/Polycarbonate-Lexan-vs-Acrylic-Lucite To djh3: Home Depot carries both Lexan (Polycarbonate) and Optix (Acrylic).
  4. If, IF it is just a bad stator/charging system you can swap good batteries from your riding partners for your depleted battery as needed. They will be charging your battery as you consume the energy in theirs. Keep swapping until you have to part ways and then borrow one or two charged batteries to take with you for the last 200 miles. I did that battery swap on the road from West Texas to Kansas (1000 miles) with my riding buddy when my stator was trashed on a CB750.
  5. Is that your rig, McGovern? Who steers the bike for two?
  6. How on earth did it get bent?
  7. Remove the headlight assembly and reinsert, but ensure the housing tab fits into the adjuster mechanism properly. It's not hard, but a careless mechanic may not even bother to check as he unknowingly slaps the headlight back in. While you are there (inside joke) make sure the headlight housing is, in fact, engaging ITS tabs at the bottom. As for the dash going out, if the techie was behind the headlight, he may have knocked the connectors loose. So, again, when you remove the headlight and "while you are in there" , double check all connectors are secure.
  8. Believe me, I am not being insolent, but did you take out/off the old gasket? Are the new gaskets from Yamaha or are they aftermarket? It is a necessarily tight fit, so be sure all rust and old gasket remains are removed.
  9. We are embarking on our New England Tour this Saturday (August 3) and anticipate spending Sunday night at Fourmile Creek State Park, near Youngstown, NY after riding from Cleveland, OH area to Goat Island (Niagara Falls) then to Fourmile Creek. Anyone want to meet for Sunday supper in the area? My cell number is in my profile.
  10. Bill, is there enough pad left on the worn ones to swap inside pad for outside pad? But, I am also suspecting an issue with the calipers. The four piston MKII calipers don't slide back and forth like the MKI calipers with just a single piston. In fact, the MKI pads did wear unevenly, but the MKII pads should not show different wear since all four pistons should move equally. Clean the pistons and clean and lube the pad supporting pins to ensure equal application on both pads.
  11. Any RSV OEM starter is a four brush and will bolt up to a First Gen without modification.
  12. Sure hope it fits, too, since there was no 1998 RSV.
  13. I suspect "DOT" is for Department of Transportation, ie, DOT approved. Perhaps a headlight modulator? More information please. Can you read any other information on the box? Q-Switch is a name used by Sound Off, Inc for various headlight flashers, perhaps for emergency vehicles.
  14. And you're gonna need to find the screws that hold that handlebar cover. Good luck!
  15. Is this the same John Furbur of the famous "Furbur Fix"? (It was a steel fender washer used to replace the early Venture steering head rubber washer.)
  16. I tried a Laminar Lip on my cut down windshield. After I went with the Travelcade Road Sofa seat it raised me too high in relation to the windshield. I installed the Laminar Lip (which by the way, is expensive for what you get) and it offered minimal improvement. I set it an inch higher than the initial install and it began to help with buffeting. Subsequently I replaced the cut down 'shield with a taller one and tried to add the Laminar Lip to it, but the curve was all wrong and I could not make it work. Anyone want to try a Laminar Lip? Half price!
  17. Without having a handle on the year of your Venture I cannot say what it is you describe, but if it is a First Gen Venture, the described apparatus is not stock. Apparently added by a PO. A pic might be nice just so we can see how the PO added some accessory switches.
  18. Nope. I haven't found ANY other source besides Yamaha. Those Allen head cap screws are metric and most all the caps I've found are for SAE heads and they are either too loose or too tight to get on.
  19. Somehow, I don't think I would relish YOUR videos. Of course, that would depend on your video subjects/material. A video of you picking your navel for ABS reinforcing lint... Um, no thanks.
  20. WHOA! I'm gonna have to start frequenting the chat room. Is there videos, too?
  21. The pin (called a "neutral point") is part number 278-18542-00-00. http://www.boats.net/parts/detail/yamaha/Y-278-18542-00-00.html While you are in there, replace the spring as well: 90501-06022-00
  22. Got two.
  23. prej·u·dice /ˈprejədəs/ Noun Preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience. My opinion IS based on reason and experience. So I am not prejudiced.
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