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Put a deposit down on a used 2013 Goldwing today, the wife will be completing the purchase next week while I am out of town on buisness travel, hopefully it will be already to pick up and ride away when I return on Friday. Now to find a Bushtec hitch and wiring harness for the wing and figure out what a 2007 Venture with 70K + miles is worth and find a buyer. I wil post pics after I get her home.

Go over to the Delphi forum for Ventures, Tanker Hank has managed to remove the lower fairings on his Venture, he can tell what is needed, he also changed the filter set up to 4 pods I think.

The BUBS are pretty easy to repack, I have done two sets in the past 6 months or so. Drill out two rivets, wiggle the caps off, pull the baffles, wrap the baffles and reinstall. When I did the ones earlier this year both sets had been torn into before and the rivets had been replaced with screws (sort of) so I had to rework the thru holes and rethread the cones to acept proper screws, but nothing major. A liitle elbow grease and some metal polish and the tips will look like brand new , get rid of flaking chrome and polish the aluminum underneath and they look good as new.

Go to the classified section for Gen 2 parts or follow this link http://www.venturerider.org/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=5070&title=bubs-slip-ons&cat=7 A set for $75.00

Yes I would buy again, they did not have anything that fancy when I boght mine, that looks like a dandy.

Some body had a set for sale either here or on Delphi for $75.00 , I wil see if I can find that thead.

Just to be clear the Palomino model pictured is from the original Royal Star model line, that is the non Venture based models that were manufactured and sold from 1996 to 2001, none of those had the set up the Venture started sporting in 1999 and the new version of the TD in 2005, which is just a stripped down version of the Venture. The Palominos and some other models were very limited editions, the paint was done by Bushtec Trailers.

Rick, Wishing you a speedy and complete recovery.

Or a 2006

I am sure they could last UP TO FOUR HOURS under the right conditions, but not in 90+ weather riding 70 MPH here in Florida. I have the phase change packs, I never really paid attention to how long they take in ice water, I have two pairs, so I take one pair out of the vest and put them into the cooler and put the cold set in my vest and ride on, by the time I have to stop again they are always frozen solid. When I first got the vest I tried using all four packs at one time, but the two in the back were right on my kidneys and it was two much, made my back muscles start to spasm, so I now just run with two , one in each front pouch.

I have one, works well, better than an evaporation system especially here in Florida where the humidity is high. The packs stay cool for about one hour, which is about right for summer riding, I normally stop pretty often to get fresh cold water.

Joe , There is another very simlar thread making its way thru the forum, one suggestion was to make sure that the converter / isolator you hav eis designed for use with LEDs, some are only for incandesant and could cause problems with LEDs, just a thought.

Angryjoe and I have been in contact, I am not certain what is going on, but I suspect there is some sort of leakage path or stray voltage path in the converter causing the issue.

Go over to the Delphi Venture or Royal Star forum and look for Tanker Hank, he has one he just gutted , so he can fit another style into the housing, he may still have the electronics around.

My points welded closed around 70K, new points installed about $35.00 been fine for the last few thousand miles. Made a bypass kit and keep it in the saddle bag just in case.

Here is a link to Midrsv' post that is refered to by jsb777 http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=36541 to do this just find the short cut that gets you to the post and right click on it, select "Copy Short Cut" from the menu and then paste that link where ever you want. Never hurts to clean up the grime if you can, the one issue is keping it from running down on places you do not want the crude to go, Iam a litle lazy and usually ignore it unless it is really bad then spray with carn cleaner and try to ctch the dripping with a rag. Front plugs are not to bad, some do not, but I always pul ny tank to change plugs, jus pull the dogbone links and it is easy just like the rears. Out of an abudance of caution I always pul just one dogbone at a time, and make sure you blow out the well that the plug sits in, they tend to collect all kind of debris that could fall inot the cylinder when you remove the plug. Oil level on next change should be just under the line on the windoow with the bike straight up, that wil reduce the oil getting to the carbs via the vent tubes. The terminal nut , I guess you are referring to the one on the top of the plug, they not used , the boot just slips over the treaded stem on the top of the plug.

Thanks for the up date.

On my Venture it is labled SIGNAL, it is a 15 amp fuse. I am pretty sure it called the same on the original Royal Stars. Yes they had Tour DeLuxe in 1996, it was based on the original Royal Star that came out in 1996. They ended the original Royals in 2001 and brought out the Venture based Tour DeLuxe in 2005. Always confusing.

There is a fuse it is in the fuse box, I know because I had one blow on my 98 when some wires I routed poorly chaffed thru and shorted. Do the other instrument lights and front turn signals work? If they do, then you have a connector disconnected or a cut harness that feeds the rear lights. There is a connector under the seat that connects the main harness to the fender harness and takes all of the rear lights circuits back to the area behind the license plate. Check under the seat for a white 6 pin connector, it may be disconnected.

Here is someone I just discovered that covered the 60s, 70s, 80s and more, JJ Cale, he actually is the author of Cocaine and After Midnight, no guitar hero stuff, just good, maybe one of the best electrical guitar players I have heard.

Sultans of Swing, Dire Straits

Magic, now if you ever want to power anything else up front and it is a low current draw I make a 2-pin jumper that plugs in to the back side (in side the fairing) of the aux power outlet, I used one to to power my Kuryaken LED volt meter, works great. Check out my add on the member vendors section in the classifieds.

There should be a cigarette lighter outlet on the left inside of the fairing, unless they started adding that after 99, every Venture I seen has one. maybe I am confused or missing something?

Hi Mike, I just got your email from today, I did not see any emails previously, but if it went to my junk mail, it could have gotten tossed by the wife by mistake. Any way I sent back a confirmation of what you want and had a few questions just to be sure I was clear on what you wanted. If we clear the questions up, I should be able to ship everything this weekend. Thanks

speakerfritz Harness is packed and ready to go to the post office, will drop off in a little while.