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My 98 Tour Classic had a noise like that that turned out to be the water pump, I had an issue where the oil was getting in the coolant, turned out it was bad seal on the driven shaft on the water pump. Once the water pump was rebuilt the noise went away. Take your stethoscope and check on the lower right side at the water pump cover and see if you can hear it there.

Just try twisting the throttle when you are in 3rd gear a few times you may be impressed by how well she does, 4th and 5th are both overdrive gears.

From 1996 to 2001 Yamaha produced the "Original" line of Royal Stars, there were several model designations such as Tour DeLuxe, Tour Classic, Boulevard, Silverado and standard Royal Star, each had unique packages such as chrome parts, hard bags , soft bags windshields and what not. They all had the same power plant 1200 cc 4 cylinder at 78 horsepower. Good solid bikes many have gone well over 100.000 miles.

i am still making all of my products, my trailer harnesses are isolation harnesses. The isolation relay adds a layer of protection by isolating the bike's lighting system from the trailer's lighting system. The trailer lights are powered from the battery through the isolation relay that senses the bike's rear lighting and activates the tail, brake or turn signals on the trailer as the bike calls for them. If your trailer develops a short circuit only the trailer lights are affected, the bike's lights still function. The sub harness that EC sells for $49.95 is only one part of their system, it does not connect to your trailer, it requires that you also purchase an isolator from them and if your trailer needs a 4 pole connector you need to purchase a converter also and then you provide the trailer connector that matches your trailer. My system includes the sub harness and either a 5 wire to 5 wire isolation relay package or a 5 to 4 converter that has an isolation relay built in. No messing about with piecing parts together, just one clean plug and play system that is tailored to your specific needs. If you need a special connector for a Bushtec or a 6 pin square, I will build the harness with that connector at a modest up charge. EC doers not include the trailer connector and shipping is an extra charge with them, my system includes shipping and a standard 4 or 5 pin flat rubber molded connector. A 5 wire system from EC will run you $129.90 plus shipping and the cost of a trailer connector. My complete 5 wire system with shipping and a flat 5 pole rubber trailer connector will cost you $131.00. A 4 wire system from EC will cost you $162.85, plus shipping and a trailer connector, while my 4 wire system including shipping and a standard 4 pole flat connector will cost you $96.00. Shipping is to the lower 48 states, if going to Canada add $7.00 US to cover the added freight costs. Tell me what you need and I will get you a quote, as quick as I can. Hope that answers your questions.

I cannot speak to the RVTC being affected by side drafts, but i can tell you that my 2013 Goldwing is the worst bike I have ever had for getting blown around by side drafts. I was pulling my Bushtec and was blown about 2 feet sideways by a very strong gust, no problem with the trailer it was fine, no whipping or excessive side wise movement. Bustec Roadstars are not very heavy and most of the time I forget it is back there. I have pulled it with a 98 Royal Star and a 2007 Venture, never a problem.

Go here in the tech library, http://www.venturerider.org/manuals/1996-2001%20Royal%20Star%20LIT-11616-VZ-01.pdf, then scroll down to the last manual and find pge 8-7, it gives the fault codes.

OK, mystery solved, just need more digging. The harness works and with a few minor changes I will have a production ready design for sale.

Thanks. Interesting, those are the instructions he has, I think the connector is hiding under the wire harness and just has not been uncovered yet. John will be looking at it again this evening, he is armed with additional pictures from Facebook and a video from Buckfan, I am sure he can find it.

So fellow member here gidz took me up on my offer to install my trailer harness on his Eluder, looks like maybe the Eluder is different than the new Venture. He has found the left and right turn signal wires and they work just fine, but he is having no luck in finding the tail/brake light connector.If anyone has done a similar install using the EC harness or just plain knows where he can find the connector under the seat that feeds the tail/brake light assembly he and I would be very grateful. Thanks

That is going to be a tough one. First off you need a small pencil type soldering iron that you can control the heat and some fine gauge electronics type solder, not one of those huge Weller soldering guns that get super hot. If the green wire is long enough to reach the terminal point, strip off about 1/8" to 3/16" of insulation off the conductor. Apply a little flux to the wire, heat it up with the soldering iron and touch the solder to the wire to tin the wire, let the solder flow in and fill around the strands. put a small amout of flux on the terminal carefully heat the terminal up with the soldering iron watch for melting plastic, quickly apply a small amout solder to the terminal to tin it also. Clean the tinned wire and tined terminal with isopropyl alcohol and dry. Move the wire as close to the terminal as possible, if you can find a way to hold it in place on ther terminal that would be good, if not heat the wire up again with the soldering iron and add a drop or so of solder to the wire, while holding the wire in one hand and the soldering iron in the other heat the wire up until the solder flows, keeping the iron in contact with the wire, more the wire to the terminal and let the molten solder on the wire melt the solder on the terminal, quickly remove the soldering iron while holding the now very hot wire in place until the solder solidifies. This is not an easy repair even for those that are experienced with this type of repair. If the green wire is to short you will want to solder a length of wire to the terminal, using the above procedure and then splice it to the original green wire. Good luck

What voltage are you getting on the input connector that plugs into the breakout? What voltage are you getting on the backside of the breakout connector that plugs into the incoming bike harness. The contact should be reachable with meter leads or a small jumper wire. I have never had a reported issue of my crimps have high resistance or causing a voltage drop. Check the voltage on the tail light circuit break out as well as the turns, the turns could be troublesome as the dwell time at voltage is not very long and the meter may not have time to trap the peak. If you determine the break out is causing the voltage drop, I will replace it at no charge.

Flying fool may have some thing with the flasher grounding internally on the off cycle. In the video of your bike both turns are flashing, is that part of the mystery, I forget if the Venture has a hazard switch on it or not. Can you post a picture of the turnsignal connections brown and green you made?

The videos are both set tp private and cannot be viewed. Do you stil have the OEM turns, brake and tail light connected? If yes try unplugging the harness end that goes bak towards the fender keeping the breakout harness connected to the new auxillary lights. That may tell us something. There is no obvious reason I can see why this set up should not work as planned. Also try taking the ground for new auxillary lights directly to a good frame ground or the battery negitive terminal. Let us know how you make out.

Yes they will fit, only difference between Tour Deluxe (2005 to 2010) and Venture (1999 to 2013) is the extra tips they put on the Tour DeLuxe mufflers.

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What type of LED tail light does he have? If it is one of the ones that has a flat plate of LEDs that has 50 to 100 individual LEDs and mounts using the 3 screws that holds the lens on, I have had good luck repairing those. I would be happy to take a look at it if he wants to send it to me. Is it like this one? https://www.radiantz.com/V-Star-Road-Star-Retro-p/9011-10.htm

Praying for continued recovery, good to hear you are doing better.

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Why not use Grip Puppies or Shin Grips? I have Shin Grips on my GL and they very comfortable and inexpensive. Here is link, https://www.shop.shinhopples.com/product.sc?productId=1067&categoryId=-1

My 2013 stock grips measure 1.37" diameter (35.mm more or less) What you doing that you the OD of the grips?

Good to hear, thanks for the feed back.

I think you will find my pricing is better than EC.

Yes there is thermostat, you have to pull the fuel tank it is up near the radiator filler neck as I recall. It has been a while since I owned my Venture so I forget if it had a temp gauge or just an idiot light, you may want to describe the symptoms or indications you are getting that tells you it is overheating. I would get the radiator cap pressure tested or just get a new one, could be it is not holding pressure and letting the fluid boil due to low pressure. The water pump is driven off a gear driven shaft down on the lower right side, it is behind a small round cover. I cannot say I have ever heard of a water pump going bad, where it is not pumping, occasionally one of the seals goes bad and allows oil to get into the coolant system. You could pull the thermostat and put the housing back on with out the thermostat, leave the radiator cap off and start the motor to see if the pump is circulating the fluid. Possibilities are: Clogged radiator Bad/stuck thermostat Bad radiator cap Bad sensor, there are two that I know of, one to operate the fan on and off and then another to turn the over temp light light on. It is possible the sensor has gone bad giving an erroneous indication. As I recall there are trouble shooting guides in the service manual, which should be available in PDF format here, https://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?140302-RSV-and-RSTD-Service-Manuals Keep us posted on your findings and progress.

I have seen that a couple of the Daytona events, really good looking setup.

Here are the photos Jthomas sent me. Based on the heat shields I say those are BUBs slip-ons. Other than a few missing farkles, that looks just like my 2007 Venture I had.