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Have a friend that just picked up a 1990 Royale but the right Mirror gotten broken off during transit. Has anyone out there have one they would like to sell or donate? Thanks Update found pair on Ebay. Thanks for looking

Yea, what they both said.

Just had the same problem on a 88 royale. Pulled the front head and had to lap both intake valves and one of the exhaust valves. Follow the manual, it is a little confusing but works. I did not unbolt the cam gears as the book describes. Note the cam location marks before you disassemble and be at the correct t2 marking. Yes. engine was left in the bike.

On the oil leak it could be the wires coming out of the stator in front of the middle gear. On mine it was running down the wires and dripping at the low point. The other thing to look at would be the o ring or crack on the neutral switch its the kind of triangular off white plastic piece in that area with a single wire running to it. If that is it you'll need to pull both the middle gear cover and the left side cover slide the wires in and out and clean with brake fluid and coat inside and outside of the rubber seal with an RTV and slide them in and out again to coat wires and create seal.. Basically the oil level best height is half way up the sight glass more tends to cause leaks. Don't use oil with fiction fighters etc. or your clutch will start slipping. On the whine I don't have that on mine. There is a clutch whine while engaged and going down the road though that seems quite common. Good luck with your find and remember it's a big top heavy bike.

Start checking your positive wires with a old headlight back to ground. You may have a fuse connection that will pass 12 volt with a VOM but when you place a load (headlight ) on it will not pass the load. About drove me nuts on a old Goldwing, I kept finding 12 volt until I tried to start it then nothing. The load from a headlight showed the problem back at a main fuse.

Here is a cheap sidecar body in Houston. You would still need to make a frame with axle. http://houston.craigslist.org/mcy/5466425309.html

be carefull out there. There are a lot of crazy people out there and your one of them.LOL Be safe and have a good ride.

Question is are you the one on the left or right?? LOL

Well, we need to get this going again so this should meet the last requirements. Since Turkey day will be upon us shortly. Lets make the next target a picture of you , your bike and a turkey. I don't care if its a real turkey ( not a friend that's a turkey), blowup yard decoration turkey, even a frozen turkey ( for our friends up north) will work. Good hunting.....

Thanks for the suggestion. Borrowed a valve shim kit this evening. Now just have to get back to it.

The idle mix screw would unscrew but the procedure said to get it out I needed to air blow through the pilot jet hole in the intake and it should just pop out. It would not. Might still have to pull the carbs but I'm going to try valve adjust first. If I remember correctly a couple years ago I had and 83 venture that basically was doing the same thing and once I did the valve adjustment the problem with low vacuum got much better.

As I posted earlier I had the same problem on an 88 royale I'm working on. Used my old vacuum gauges and was only pulling around 1 to 1 1/2 inches vacuum. Too little for the carbtune to really show. This afternoon did a compression check and #2 cylinder was running 20 PSI and the other three were running 140PSI. Put in a little oil and it raised the pressure to 30 PSI so looks like the valve need to be adjusted. You might want to do a compression check.

Well got back to the bike this afternoon. The right rear (3) was cooler than the rest so tried to do the shotgun clean method but the idle mix screw would not pop out. So sprayed carb cleaner in both ways through the idle circuit and put thing back together and did compression test and found 1 ,3 and 4 all at 140 PSI but number 2 (Left front) only showed 20 psi. Went back and rechecked again and still got 20 PSI so put a little oil in it and it only went up to 30 PSI. So started to remove the valve cover and I'll check the front valves for clearance. Hope that's it???? Did get her started with the Air filter off and full choke and the sliders all bounce around nicely. Diaphragm on number 3 looks almost new.

I believe you have it correct . That's what I get for doing things late night. The 85 build date was 11/84 mileage 37409 and VIN JYA59J004FA000146. And the 88 build date was 10/87 mileage 48896 VIN JYA1NLE06JA022821. Sorry for the confusion.

I'm having the same problem on an 88 royale. Just got the carbtune and I have the restrictors in the correct end. I connected the hoses to the old set of vacuum gauges and was only getting 1 " vac at 1000 RPM and 2" at 4000 RPM. I have not done a compression check yet. Did you ever figure out what the cause was?

Finally got some time to work on the bike last night and today. Found bad plug front right cylinder. Bought new set of plugs today and replaced all. Finally got it to hold at 1000 RPM without choke but idle screw is almost at top limit. Did several other checks today and finally got her to idle at around 100 RPM ( without additional tape on the inlet horn) Need to check temps after a minute yet but while doing other things after running about 10 -15 minutes cylinder temps were. 1. 184 2. 219 3. 229 4. 185 Idle mix screws 1. 3 1/8 turn out 2. Was shut hard have opened to 2 3/4 turn 3. 3 turns 4. 2 1/2 turns No real response to starting fluid around intake and carbs. Put carbtune on it and basically had no vacuum showing. Switched to gauges and get approximately 1" vac at 1000 RPM and if I rev it to 4000RPM I only get about 2" of vac. Seems like I should be getting around 9" vac if I remember correctly. I should do a compression check but ran out of time right now. Ideas?

Prayers out to you both, Hope they get it all and she has quick recovery.

10-84 and 11-87. I'll bet you can figure out which one the dates go with. Have a good one.

Some additions to your list. Picked up couple of bikes this last month : 85 Venture Royale vin JYA59J004FA000146 37409 miles PO took apart about 5yeas ago two tone brown. 88 Royale vin JYA1NLE06JA022821 48896 MILES Doesn't run right two tone burgundy/red

I'm working on a set of carbs on an 85 royale project now so haven't had much time to work on the 88. Will check the main diraphams. Not sure about the square ones your talking about. I know about the small round ones part number 3LD-1490H-00-00 in cheap cycle parts ( I believe they are to aid in stopping the popping on deceleration), and yes I have seem those pretty chewed up before. Just got new battery to replace in the IR temperature indicator so have not checked that yet. Problem is too many project bikes (3 now 78 KZ1000, 85 and 88 Royales) and the truck started giving me problems this week end. Been running can of Seafoam and half tank of gas and letting it idle while working other things and at least I can rev it up around 5000 rpm and hold it there without it acting like its running out of gas but I still have to have half choke to keep running. Have removed half of the tape PO had blocking the intake horn so it is running better. Most likely still going to have to remove and clean the carbs. PO said he just had that done about a month ago. But then again how clean is clean. Thanks for the ideas..... now if I can find some extra time.

Picked up a really nice looking 88 Royale this week and haven't had much time to work on it yet. Won't idle consistently and needs about 1/2 choke. Put about 1/2 tank of gas and can of Seafoam in her and ran a bit to get into the carbs and then let her sit a couple of days. Took out for very short ride and started out with plenty of power then about a quarter of a mile it started to bog down like running out of gas when I let off it, dropped back and recovers. Does the same thing if I keep it rev'ed up sitting on the center stand. I was not hearing the fuel pump when I turned on the key so I pulled the discharge line and hit the key and it spirted nicely. Last owner said he had someone clean the carbs and was still having problems so wanted to sell. They have taped off about half of the air filter inlet and it makes a difference if you start pulling it off. (guess this is a poorman's choke) I did check one carb this afternoon and at least the left rear float seem to be set correctly. The brass plugs on the idle mix screws were removed and that carb was turned out 3 and 1/4 turns. Pulled the air filter with it running and all the sliders seem to be bouncing nicely. Have not tried to sync the carbs yet. Sprayed starting fluid are carbs and it didn't make much difference. Looks like new air filter. Before I pull the carbs is there something else I should check?

Here is one on the north side of Houston for 1/2 the price. https://houston.craigslist.org/mcy/5177042133.html

See this old but good post. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?36254-Lubing-the-speedo-on-a-1st-gen&highlight=lubing+speedometer

Start at the bottom, Yes. There are ORINGS under the bottom on the intake boots. Replaced mine and it helped. Also make sure the carbs are completely seated in the boots.

We just returned from Scotland and Ireland trip too. Other that the main "motorways" , I'm not sure most of the roads have more that a straight 1/2 mile but you have to watch out for the free range sheep. The roads are also thinner that our roads with a bunch of tight curves where you could lose your head to a car or bus coming the other way. In Scotland our tour guide said a lot of the country roads were created by the sheep being hearded to market. Beautiful country.