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    Ryan Cantwell

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    Las Vegas, United States

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    Wife & Kids, scouts, tv, fun
  • Bike Year and Model
    2003 RSV
  1. vegastruckee
    Eastwood makes the absolute best clear in a rattle can I've ever seen. Watch their videos and rest assured this is the clear to use. Nobody will ever know that it came from a can.
  2. vegastruckee
    I built a set for my bike and have enough stock to build at least 5 more sets. If anyone is interested Ill take $100 for them shipped Minus the cup holder. The right side is solid mount and the Left pivots up out of the way. PM if any interest, questions Ryan Vegastruckee
  3. vegastruckee
    Gonna be riding the newly rebuilt 03 up to Reno on Thursday. Ill be there until Saturday night then heading to sacramento for the night. Then back to Vegas, Ill be at both. In my 03 (best color) venture
  4. vegastruckee
    Well its official the bike is back to normal. I have put about 150 miles on it, and it is back to 100%. The carbs seemed clogged and I had to ride it like I stole it for a few miles but all of the sudden whatever it was came free and MAN WHAT A RIDE. Included is a pic of a nice clean bike. The last one had no motor and about 3500miles worth of road grime.
  5. vegastruckee
    Well my son took a 2 hour nap and gave me just enough time to FINISH everything. I pulled the bike out of the garage and drove it back in, seems fine. I cleaned the garage and to my surprise not a single exta part lying around,,,,gotta be a first. Wife should be home from school soon and a real test ride will take place. Thanks for following this and if you have any questions regarding my ordeal I would love to help out in any way I can.
  6. vegastruckee
    OK well I started the bike just now. No crazy noises or anything concerning. Still need to fill the brake fluid, clutch fluid and put saddle bags on but IT RUNS.....the wife made me call it a night early and my son is off school tomorrow so no progress will be made. Next time Ill be able to work on it will be saturday so Ill update on the ride then.
  7. vegastruckee
    Well ROUND 2 is done motor is back together with NO parts leftover or hiding anywhere. I tend to be a bit weary of HF stuff too but I pulled and twisted one of the clips apart to see how the metal reacted and it seems to be ok. Only time will tell. On a side note LOL yes I have a job Im a firefighter here in Las Vegas but you gotta have your priorities straight if your gonna enjoy life. Just saying, you only get one (life) do what makes you happy and the rest is just gravy. Ive seen to many people live to run the rat race and die before they start enjoying life....not me Im doing it all now.:cool10:
  8. vegastruckee
    NOPE the local yamaha dealers do not stock it....None of the 3. I went ahead and ordered OEM but then took a trip to harbor freight for some snap ring pliers and found a box of circlips for 9.99 I bought them and compared one to OEM and it looks identical, well besides the stretching, ground out part and not being concave. I think Im gonna roll the dice and just use the harbor freight one and see what happens. At worse case I pull the motor again and learn a lesson.
  9. vegastruckee
    Thanks guys. I agree Flyinfool I thought the same thing about that circlip, the pic doesnt really do it justice how bad it is. I never even took it off it just slid off onto the carpet I have the motor setting on. It looks overspread, worn from the inside a ton, and concave on one side and convex on the other.... Im up just made the kids spam and eggs for 2nd day of school. Trying to make it 9am so yamaha will open, should have motor back together by noon.
  10. vegastruckee
    So now its 230 in the morning with not one ounce of progress... At 130 I had motor 99.9%back together and when I was going through my PILES making sure I didnt have extra parts I noticed a large washer and circlip that I had no recollection of removing. Upon further investigation they both were to be installed on the transmission shaft where I had put the new gears. UHHHHHHGGGGGGG so I cracked the case open again....mind you that I had already torqued all bolts and was calling it a night because I had no friends to help me put the motor in the frame. Once the case was apart I put the washer on and was going to put the circlip on and it slipped directly on the shaft without having to spread it. Thats not right. I inspected the clip and noticed that it was missing about half the "meat" that it should have to hold it in place. I think this is where my broken gear problem may have originated. Remembering back to start of my problem...I felt one little hicup in my tranny. Maybe this was the circlip popping loose. A few hundred miles later I felt 2 distinct pops (both dogs breaking) then no 5th gear. Well now im done for the night until morning when I can go to yamaha and pray they have a circlip. sorry for the rambling IM TIRED>>>>
  11. vegastruckee
    OK Latest update, I got all my parts in today from Earl (thanks a million). The family is in bed so out to the garage I go. My goal is to get the motor back together by morning, and installed by afternoon. Im very OCD and once I start I will not stop until Im done. I will keep you all posted on progress and when I get my test ride done.
  12. vegastruckee
    Yes it broke 2 of the 3 dogs off. that is why it was clunking in the video. If all 3 dogs were gone the gears would have just slipped by each other smoothly. I am the most impatient person in the world. It is killing me that I have to wait for the parts to fix this. I would work 24 hours a day until a project I start is FINISHED. its a blessing and a curse at the same time. OCD severe. If I open a 12 pack I will not stop until its gone......thus my wife only buys 6packs now LOL
  13. vegastruckee
    ok so the very imaptient me went ahead and pulled the motor and split the case today. I found that the gear that engages 5th...the smaller one with the 3 posts that hook into 5th gear had 2 broken teeth. The engine pull and split was actually not that bad. I did it all by myself. Will be waiting for my dad to get into town next week to re-assemble, so that if something goes wrong I have someone to blame. LOL
  14. vegastruckee
    thanks for the advice guys I appreciate it. Im looking into a partial block/tranny from ebay now. Splitting the case looks like a ton of work.
  15. vegastruckee
    OK now for the good stuff. I pulled the clutch and basket etc. When everything is pulled there is a hole you can look through and see the gears. Its supposed to be there so dont worry there.... Ok so I looked in the hole and could see most of the gears, everything looks perfect. The case looks perfect with no sign of metal flying around. I put the bike into neutral and spun the shaft. It spins perfectly smooth. Next I put the bike into other gears and shaft would not spin, which I think is correct. I then shifted into 5th, the shaft would freely spin but would clunk quite a bit. You could see a gear in the back of the tranny that appeared to be loose. I took video and am attempting to upload to Youtube right now. Hopefully this video will help the cause. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnYI84DNYaQ]‪Yamaha venture transmission trouble‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]
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