Vmax rear end question

[ToyOdie]

As you know, I now have a 96 and 97 Tour Classic. I have been riding the 97 and noticed that the gearing is significantly different from the 96. Driving to work on the 96, I usually shift to 5th at around 50mph. Yes I know, but it's on secondary roads and I'm just cruising. On the 97, I can't use 5th until at least 60. The rpm's are too low. So my question is, are there any visual clues to identify a V-Max rear end? I'm thinking that the 96 may have one installed.

[Condor]

As you know, I now have a 96 and 97 Tour Classic. I have been riding the 97 and noticed that the gearing is significantly different from the 96. Driving to work on the 96, I usually shift to 5th at around 50mph. Yes I know, but it's on secondary roads and I'm just cruising. On the 97, I can't use 5th until at least 60. The rpm's are too low. So my question is, are there any visual clues to identify a V-Max rear end? I'm thinking that the 96 may have one installed.

 

I think what you need to do is get a tach and get the R's at 50 on both bikes to get a better idea of what's going on. If they are the same then it could be a number of differences between the motors to make one lug and the other to not....

[dingy]

As you know, I now have a 96 and 97 Tour Classic. I have been riding the 97 and noticed that the gearing is significantly different from the 96. Driving to work on the 96, I usually shift to 5th at around 50mph. Yes I know, but it's on secondary roads and I'm just cruising. On the 97, I can't use 5th until at least 60. The rpm's are too low. So my question is, are there any visual clues to identify a V-Max rear end? I'm thinking that the 96 may have one installed.

 

If you have a VMax final drive housing that has been modified for the spped sensor, the shock boss will be machined to accept shock. This would be an indicator that you do have a VMax final drive. However, the absence of the shock mount machining will not rule out that the gear set was swapped into a stock RSTD housing.

Easiest way to tell is to remove speed sensor on final drive and count teeth on pinion gear as wheel is rotated one full revolution on each bike.

Venture is a 10:33 (3.3) ratio & Vmax is 9:33 (3.67) ratio.

Gary

[ToyOdie]

Thanks guys. I'll do some checking to what is going on. It just seemed strange that the rpm wasn't the same at the same speed. It doesn't look like ther was any machining on the housing so I'll check the number of teeth on both. I'll let you know what I find.