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I picked this up back in August, literally @ 9PM the night before leaving on a month-long road trip, because why not... Was looking for something smaller, a project (but not too complicated) and on a reasonable budget as a complement to my Venture for easy daily riding and this sweet girl came along. She has only 7700 miles on her and lot's of garage sit time (hadn't run in over 10 years) - which of course meant gunked up carbs, dried out rubber bits and rusty tank. Thanks to all you awesome folks here and the ton I've learned from you over the last year I, perhaps foolishly, had all the confidence to take this one on. After returning from my trip, I pulled the plugs and soaked the cylinders in Seafoam deep creep for 48 hours, changed the oil, new battery and lit her up with some starter fluid. She's alive! Next step, pulled the carbs. They weren't in as bad of shape as I expected, but bad enough. Ordered a K&L rebuild kit, along with new boots on both sides. The petcock is vacuum operated and all the bits inside were dried out as well, so those have been replaced with new. I did the drywall screws in the tank thing and let the rust rain out, then did a degrease, followed by the POR acid treatment, then POR-15 coating. Carbs are clean with new float valves, pilot screws and rubber bits. She runs, she purrs like a kitten! Actually, the carbs need a little fine tuning on the pilot screws and sync, but other than that, I was able to ride it around the neighborhood this evening. OMG, what a hoot! This thing has some punch. Oh, while I was waiting for all the bits & pieces to arrive, I painted the engine black. The engine was painted gold from the factory but it was badly faded and splotchy and I just had to knock a little bit of that '80's look off of it. Overall, the bike is very clean but the paint is not as good as it looks in this photo, it is a bit worn and beat, but still acceptable. I'm debating whether to keep it looking as it sits now or make it a longer term project to move it towards something more sporty looking. In the mean time, I will be overhauling the brakes and other various little things to make her truly road ready, but dang, this is fun!

@videoarizona Dave, Thanks for the link, I read that post when I was searching earlier, and many more, lol. I have narrowed it down to a flaky bank angle sensor. I am getting resistance reading all over the map, from open to over 400 ohms. Ordered a new one. I will see if that keeps it running for more than 10 minutes. Looking at where it is located I am not looking forward to the job. I will let you know how it works out. We are running out of riding weather up here. Paul

You might want to call pinwall cycles. They salvage a lot of bikes and usually sell the parts on ebay but sometimes they have stuff that doesn't get on ebay.

Yeah, they are much easier to work on than the RSV in most cases. I think I removed 21 screws to change my headlight bulb and about 28 to replace the air filters on my RSV.

Yes. I’ve checked the all three leads on the stator for voltage. They are all 15 to 20 while idling and will go to 80 or higher when reved. And the plug ends look good. Load test the battery while starting goes down just little. But. Nothing major. I did crank it and the removed the battery lead. The motorcycle immediately died. I think the rr is bad. Even though it’s checked out good. I think I’ll order a new one and see how that does.

Episode 5 of our renovation video-series: https://youtu.be/BMC0wVqWmFQ We got some quotes about re-chroming the parts of the Yamaha. Prices varies between $1500 and $2500. That's a lot of money..... We're looking at some other options. Have a safe weekend! Peter

I was at the Myrtle Beach Fall Rally last week. Had great time and the weather was great. Lots of people there. Retirement is hard life