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Any word on when the VR caps (hats) will be available? Mine is in really bad shape and I want to get a VR cap or I will have to order a SCRC hat.
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Hi, I have a gas tank on my 84 venture thats leaking. I purchased another one from ebay and the gas cap opening is smaller. I havent had it installed yet. Do you think this could be the wrong tank or did they make them with two different size openings for the first gen.?
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Got a fuel tank for an 83 venture recently from FREEBIRD...Thanks again, Freebird. He had already told me it had no gas cap and I thought my old one would fit it. WRONG !! Smaller neck. (About 1 1/4") Does anyone out there have an old cap laying around on their work bench that they would be willing to part with? I suppose I could get one from Yamaha but if there is one out there in the group, i'd rather deal with you'se guy's (and gals)..... Safari
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Hi guys, My 87 is getting a little weak on starting, especially when hot. I've checked for voltage drop in the circuits (had that problem with other Yammy's) and it is normal. It's probably just a tiring battery, but I've had issues on my Virago with the starter and the one on the Venture looks similar. The Virago sometimes gets all plugged up in the brush / commutator area with brush dust and needs simply a good cleaning out. But it's realy easy to get the brush cap off on that bike because of it's location. Does the Venture have any common problems with the starter? Things that make it start operating weakly? What's involved in removing it? Do I have to go into the case cover to remove a snap ring or anything? Can I leave the starter in place and just get the brush cap off? Thanks, Jeremy -
Contaminated engine coolant
Guest posted a topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
Shortly after I got to work on Wednesday, I got a call from another rider that there was a puddle under my 1st Gen Venture. I wasn't able to check it out until about an hour later... no puddle. Just to be sure I pulled the radiator cap and found a nasty light gray scum about the consistency of toothpaste coating the inside of the radiator and cap! Well I know it is an oil leak into the cooling system... the short hose that connects to the radiator near the cap failed from the oil contamination. I'm currently working to get the goo cleaned up (including a Water pump seal kit and thermostat since I had it apart). I'll replace the hoses since they show signs of bulging now. I'm worried that it may be a head gasket since there doesn't seem to be any coolant in the oil. I wasn't ready to dig that deep into the engine. Does anyone have other suggestions for me to check before I pull the heads? Also, can I pull the heads without pulling the engine? -
anyone know where i can find a radiator cap for an 83 vr?? checked the dealer just for the hell of it and they want 30 bucks and it takes a week to get. i said i'll pass
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For a while now have had a skip at very light throttle, such as running at 40 mph on flat ground in 5th gear. And, as soon as I gave it any throttle, the skip went away. I have been thru the carbs, cleaned the pilot jets, synced them and replaced the plugs. This past week, I replaced the carb rubber manifold boots the carbs set on. Mine did have some obvious external cracks and the ones I used came off an 86 engine that I have and they look very good. Did not help a bit, ran exactly the same way. Yesterday morning I decided to remove all the YICS hoses and plug them. The two outer ones are easy to get off, but the two inner ones are hard to get to. I pulled one lose with a long pair of needle nose pliers, but on the other one, when I pulled it with the pliers, it tore into. This would have been easy with the carbs off, but I have already had the carbs off several times and I am tired of doing that. After I got the plugs on tight, I decided to replace the spark plugs again as I wanted to start fresh and to be able to try to get a reading on what the plugs looked like anyway. My son suggested I try the bike before I did anything else, but I did not want to get the engine hot. Well, when I pulled the back left cap off the plug, it came off the wire. Now these wires and caps were replaced a couple of years ago, so I did not expect them to be a problem. When I looked into the cap where the wire goes, there was green corrosion on the screw that screws into the wire. I cleaned it good and cut about a half inch off the wire and screwed it back together as far as it would go. It looked like the cap had not been screwed in good. I checked the other three caps and they looked good. I double checked the sync on the carbs and they were off some, so I adjusted them. I took the bike for a ride and it is running very good with no off idle skip. I am not sure whether the plugging of the YICS system was the problem or the cap problem, but at least it is running good again. RandyA -
SWR meters are harder to find than hens teeth around here. I finally had to pay premium price from Radioshack. When I set it up with my scoot, I got >3, so I took the rubber cap off and shaved 1/4th inch off the end of the antenna whip. Funny, it just looked like nothing but fiberglass, but when I checked it, it measured 3 again. It seemed so krazy that I did it over and over again, so I started cutting off the rubber cap and the measurement came down - not by much but at least
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I know this was on the old site, but not here now! Can anyone let me know what the NAPA number is? Thx, Mike
