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Is this the stuff and is this an ok deal on 2 cans Bum? I hope so cause this is what I just ordered: https://www.ebay.com/itm/ACF-50-Anti-Corrosion-13oz-2-Pack/254193676812?hash=item3b2f1fb20c:g:8dUAAOSw9mBcq8jV Gonna undercoat our new car with it and even give Clyde my 82 4x4 shootin truck a hit, cover the snow blower and mowing deck on my garden tractor with it, shoot down Tweeks frame with it, gonna try it on the shooters and so on and so forth too - may even try it for a new deodorant if it smells good cause it says it will last 12 months .. Will give er a real world test with video and results too brother!!! THANKS SADDLEBUM FOR THE HEADS UP!!

There's a pretty quick fix for those future issues ya know

I know,, it's another flaw in my vastly flawed character but I always found the looking for em, looking at em (even junk), chatting with PO's and shopping for em really really fun,, almost to an addiction on my part... Weird eh..

We have belonged to a family oriented motorcycle club named VentureRider.org now for many years. Having met some of the most awesome, friendliest lop eared varmints in the world thru our club, I thought christening Trooper into the club at some of America's most gorgeous (pun intended) touring areas known to man, The Flaming Gorge, would be excellent - so we did! A special thanks to the founder of our club = "Freebird", for his dedication to making the club what is today! I also pay homage to our local Hyundai dealership and the Sales Manager there who provided Trooper with his awesome nameplate. Another special thanks to Robb (Sales Manager) and the other staff at Betten Baker Hyundai for going out of their way to provide such amazing service to their customers in this episode!!

I know the carbs are different on em but not so sure on Valve or Ignition Timing or whether any of the top end parts are different. I also know the MK1's will turn 12's in the quarter, top 130 fairly easily and pulls solid from bottom R's to top R's and the need to stay in R's above 3 grand to make the smaller 1200 perform effeciently/effectively when two up and loaded is a myth (it'll lug at the bottom with the best of any Big Twin and slay em at the top), not sure on the MK2's? I also got a hunch that come tire swappin time (especially at road side or in a dealership parking lot in the desert heat) you will miss the 20 minute wheel off time of the simplisity of the MK1 but will LOVE the advantage of top opening - much bigger bags. Hey Rich,, maybe devise a quick detach for the bags on the MK2? I also got a sneaking hunch you are gonna LOVE the brake updating on the 2 as well as the clutch, the tranny (bye bye 2nd gear ??'s), the water pump, and the frame but maybe not the seat = oh gosh I LOVE the MK1 OEM seat!! I am with ya on the hype of all the bling and add on's and am more of a "give me the simplisity of just two wheels and a motor" lop eared touring varmint myself Rich but definitely see why some folks like the stuff and glad they do = anything to keep our sport alive.. Being relocated to strickly local riding these days and a good mix of demo riding therein,, I am anxiously waiting for the chance to play on the new Wing with it's slimmed down MK1 sporty touring bike look to see if Honda is taking a shot at going back to slimmer days = sort of opposite of what you are having fun playing with. Good thread brother! Looking forward to hearing what other club members have to say about it all! Also, all the very best in your Venture adVenture!! Keep em rolling my friend:biker:

:sign yeah that: Praying without ceasing! Love you Bob and Becky!!

Actually VAz, I never had a good clutch in one of my 1st Gen's before Tweeksis, who has a full Barnett clutch in her. The typical MO for my previous scoots (all MK1's) was for the clutch to slip in the top gears when hammering on it and hitting the hp above 5 grand.. I did replace springs and plates in a couple of them but never really had a good one after a very short time.. I always thought the Mom Yam wayy undersized the diameter of the plates PLUS the half plate (buffer) in the bottom of the stack always seemed like a weak link (although VERY functional in its purpose). As far as actual failure though, you are 100% correct,, I never ever did experience an actual failure with the package but was always mindful of how I hard a wicked em up in those top two gears when riding two up and loaded to the gills.. Combine that with the need to short shift the missing 2nd gear that each of them had and you gotta KNOW how much fun we had wearing out those 400 dollar, cross country rippin Kings of CTFW!!

A quick peek under the scoot may have shown where/what/when the fuel is coming from. The bowl overflow tubes end right in front of the mono and are easily identifiable as there are four of them sitting side by side. The fuel pump sits on the left side and is plumbed with rubber lines. I personally have had more issues with the inline filter mounted beside the pump when it comes to cracking/leaking. IMHO, accessing/removing the carbs on a 1st Gen Venture compared to the Honda Magna = the Venture is somewhat easier. If you have successfully removed and rebuilt the Magna carb bank you should have no problem with the Venture. If you do end up with the scoot, it might not be a bad idea to pull the seat and pop the top on the tank where the fuel level sending unit access is located. VERY simple job and being able to look directly into the interior of the tank with a pen light can be revealing as to what may be holding a float valve or two open... For restore pu2rposes and return on investment, be warned that these old Ventures wont compare to a Magna on resale (IMHO of course). I only say that as it is very easy to get upside down on investment dollars if you do end up doing a carb job plus.. Perhaps an even greater thing to consider here may or may not be the fact that in that you are looking at the 1200cc Venture, the probabilty of the bike being one with 2nd gear issues in the makings is high. By the way Wick,,

HEAR HEAR!!! Spot on Wulfster!! Matter of fact,, due to them missing 2nd gear, all of my 1st Gens prior to Tweeksis were 4 speeders and they did just fine.. Short shifting 2nd was only a pain on mountain grades above 10 percent but even then it wasn't that bad and, as you mention - doing so actually added to the fun and challenge of the adVenture.

Getting to shoot the Springfield SOCOM 16 (Garand/M-14) was also a ton of fun!! Styled after the M1 Garand and chambered in 7.62 Nato, this treasure of a shooting machine was amazing in both its accuracy and its function. The SOCOM comes ported in stock OEM form and it's porting is remarkably functional in its ability to keep this shooter from climbing during rapid fire. All one has to do to stay on target while shooting a fast semi-auto shoot with this one is focus on correcting its creep to the right (at least that was my experience).. What a fun day!!

This little pump action WRF 22 reminded me a lot of the shooting gallery 22's of a time long gone bye. Although it was stamped "1890" it's action worked flawlessly after I figured out I had to eject the fired round in its chamber. It was also still very accurate and would still be a good hunting rifle in my opinion although I am not sure how available the Ammo is for such a relic. A very cool little shooter for sure and a real pleasure to shoot!

So what cha do if memory is serving me correctly is remove the nuts and slide the bolt out of the upper clamp. May take some banging but they should just slide out.. Just thought of something here,,, are we talking about removing the studs that the nuts screw onto?? If so,, I never did try to pull them,, I gotta hunch that those may be a machined pressed fit and or even welded in place for safety sake.. I think you may be in for a replacement part as a whole unless you are wanting to mod it.. Hold on,, let me check a parts list and see what it shows.... Yeppers,, take a peek at part number 10 on the link.. Is this what we are talking about? If so,, I gotta hunch those studs are not removeable without some work beyond just unscrewing... Maybe not but thats what it looks like to me.. https://www.yamahapartsnation.com/oemparts/a/yam/5004247cf8700209bc787e41/steering

ABSOLUTELY RADAR,,, ABSOOOOOFLIPPINLUTELY!!! Grab third and lite up the L60's when ya wake that sleeper out of sound sleep I tell ya brother!!

What cha ridin there RR?? I always felt my 1st Gen MK1's coulda shoulda had a 6th gear but, unfortunately,, they predated the modern 6 speed trannies.. They really do pull hard all the way up to the top in 5th though dont they? I also ride an R1 that is smaller motored and has no issue bouncing the rev limiter in 5th (its a six speed but as shown in the video, +170 in 5th is/was about my limit even with that little 1000cc motor. I did run one of my 1st Gens out on the Bonneville tapped out in 5th and saw +130 fairly easily = perhaps Mom Yam thought that 5 forward gears was all the modern day drifter of that day and age out CTFW on one of their touring bikes was all they needed to have a pretty good time.. Speeking of modern day trannies, bigger motors and running triple digits,,, I am still somewhat as to why companies like Honda with their new Wing performance and Beemer with their WOWZY WOW WOW WOW 160 hp new touring bike decided to go to all that work of upping the displacements, do all the fancies to claim amazing HP curves on the dynos and then speed limited em to 112 for the Honda and 101 for the Beemer (imagine riding one of those gorgeous things and having some old geezer on a 74 inch Shovelhead come blowing by:buttkick:)... It all confuses my pea brain brother!!

It was my Son-In-Laws rig up on his property in the Sierra Nevada's. The "driveway" going up to the top of the mountain/south border of his land had suffered a lot of erosion and wind damage over the winter/spring months but he still wanted me to see the view from the top so off we went = cutting downed trees and working our way up to there closer to Heaven.. The driveway erosion gave out on that way down and thats how we slid in.. Thats actually not a come-along brother but a "Farm Jack". The boys attached it to the push bar on the front of the truck with cables and attached the cables to a big tree at an angle to try and give the front end a fighting chance of not sliding any farther into the canyon before backing it out.. It all worked great and the old man didnt have to spend a night in the mountains living off burnt squirrel and fighting those youngens for the water supply

It might not hurt to take a peek under the top clamp and see if the bar "perches" arent actually held on with nuts/lock washers and pins and are not actually bolts... Of course,, I might be wayyy out in left field in my understanding of what we are talking about here.. If so,, please note how thankful you lop eared varmints should be that you never had me in an actual class room cause I never was much at following along and paying attention Thanks for waking me up @videoarizona,,, this hot/muggy Michigan weather has this geezer varmint snoozin like sleeper Dodge Dart with a 440 stuffed in it

I know absolutely nothing, zero, nadda about the 2nd Gens but can tell ya,, if pulled a set of plugs out that looked that good I would definitely reinstall and take the $$'s I saved to buy my good friends and dear sweet lop eared ice cream loving brother varmints an ice cream cone Now if we were :Im not listening to1st Gens I would suggest replacing the plug wires with wire Wires (as they came OEM) and steer clear of any form of resistance creating carbon filled wires. At a minimum I would do as earlier suggested and at least do a quick clip to ensure a low resistance contact point. I would also replace the caps and slip in a new set of standard OEM NGK plugs.. Here is a little video of some fun I had with Tweeksis not long ago.. Hey VAz,, looks like you are doing an excellent job of not over chocking that gorgeous 2nd Gen of yours,, those plugs look GREAT!! Good on ya brother - GOOD ON YA!!

It's kinda goofy but it may help:

HI YA DUEY!! Doing pretty good all things considered! How bout you brother,, gettin any time in these days? Thanks for the well wishes and I hope you know they go both ways my friend!! WOWZY WOW WOW WOW,, I didnt know about Mom Yam actually making shims like that = pretty cool Duey!! YOU DA MAN = THANKS!! I wonder when they started that? My first 1st Gen was the one I ended up having to shim out to get the brake pads to wear correctly and that was back in '87 and ended up having to cut my own.. A tapered shim = WAYYYYY COOL!! I LOVE how you think!!! Personally I 100% agree with you that Mom Yam shoulda got on the band wagon many many years ago and slid a new Venture under our backsides to wear out for em but,, it seems life don't work like that in the real world - it's ok though cause their inaction didn't seem to slow us down at all and riding a new scoot may very well of brought about less real world off camber adVentures:guitarist 2:.. Concerning Hyundai,, I think their business model is pretty much the same as Mom Yam's (for profit) in that to date, I have sold 4 new cars for them (our road is starting to look like a Hyundai new car parking lot) and have yet to received even a thank you from them BUT, that's ok cause Tip and I LOVE Trooper and are having a blast putting him thru the typical Puc/Tippy CTFW(s) paces!! I also think Mom Yam may be kinda mad at me for my straight forward honesty about what she pulled with the new Venture and all that happened therein.. I think I might me a little to opinionated for her even though I am one of the faithful few when it comes to her amazing v-4's... Ya know,, maybe ol SlowrideWV was/is correct,,, in the end,, I am nothing more than an Old Hippy just trying to fit in:hihi::

Hero's,, that's what them boys of mine are = HERO's!! I have spent my share of overnighters in the woods because of being stranded or lost (even had to hike over 20 miles at night once in the Paiute Mountains due to a KTM 400 tossing its counterbalance shaft) but that was back when I was a youngen. Thankfully, this part of our adventure ended with us escaping what could have been a disaster. Those California Mountain canyons are deep and can swallow a vehicle with out so much as a burp,, not this time though,, not this time!!

There was a Polaris Indian dealership (closed now) not to far from us who was regularly hitting up the auctions purchasing used HD's for their showroom and actually doing a better business on the resale of the used HD's than on their new bike floor plan. Back then (no idea if its still happening) the ploy for Polaris Indian was to grab the used HD's off the used bike market and claim them (to the public) as trade-in's in an effort to show that ton's of HD riders were jumping ship to Polaris. The money was good on the resales of the used bikes but not sufficient enough to maintain the Dealership and in the end, they closed. Here in America (at least in Michigan), used bike shops do not have to pay sales tax on the bikes they take in as long as they are for resale (inventory). The consumer does pay sales tax when purchasing the used machine from them though. You have to have a business license to do this, if this is done in private sales it is referred to as "jumping titles" and is not legal but is still a common practice by many people who consider the sales tax placed on the scoot when purchased as new as the only "legal" taxation of a product.. Its crazy when you think about it,, we seem to still be fighting the taxation battles even years after the Boston Tea Party

Well,, ammo casings are not exactly made of gold by they do have a golden look to them and they are a treasure to a geezer going shooting with his son's!! Speaking of treasures, make sure you check out the Humming Birds at the end of this video. We have Humming Birds back in Michigan but NOTHING even close to the size of these creatures = they were HUGE!!

Oh yeah,,, I'm a star all right,,, a very dim one of the sort that twinkles on and off in the night sky amoungst all those bright shiny ones in a night sky full of shiners but a star none the less ! Thanks for the :bighug:Kretzy! Speaking of stars,,, yeppers,, old Pucster and company did indeed invade Commieland with all sorts of amazing (but 100% CommieFornia approved) shooters and we did manage to get the folks who wear the Star called on us for tossing lead. They were just checking up on us though to ensure we were valid. Come to find out, even in that far off land where high cap magazines are a no no, the 2nd Amendment of our great Constitutional Republic still stands firm. Being from a State where the sounds and smells of tossing lead is a daily occurrence on the Federal and State properties that "we the people" still own and have claim to, I think more of the silence in the Sierra Nevada's needs to be broken by the beautiful sounds of 22lr's, 9mm's, 45's (both long colts and acp's) and the mighty 308's flowing gracefully toward their targets as soon to be seen in upcoming Puc Video's ..

During the process of my sons (one who has earned the nickname now of "Paul Bunyan" for the way he tosses trees around) chainsawing our way to the top of the property I noticed several times that erosion had taken its toll on the long gravel drive leading up the top of the mountain where the property line ends. On the return trip back down the mountain to the gorgeous spot that we would spend the rest of the day shooting, the driveway gave way and the truck started its descent into the canyon below us!! Thankfully a tree was there to catch us!! Quick thinking along with some hard work, a huge tree, cables, a farm jack and a motorcycle tie down that assisted my sons in rescuing us so we didn't have to spend the night in survival mode!!