BlueSky

Yeah, the tank looks good after cleaning! Good Job!

I'm amazed!

Welcome jafso! Lots of reading to do on this site in the tech sections. Feel free to ask any questions you like.

The seafoam is beginning to work! Sounds like it isn't firing on all cylinders.

One of those infrared thermometers would be useful in determining the temperature of the exhaust pipes and therefore which cylinders are not firing.

Unscrew the spark plug caps from the wires and look at the copper core in the wires. The seal between the cap and wire is not waterproof and the copper core tends to corrode. If corroded, you can usually snip off a half inch or more of wire to get to clean copper. You may want to check the caps resistance. Factory caps are 9 to 10k ohms. Aftermarket NGK caps are 5k ohms. A weak spark will require a richer mixture I think. By the way, the starters on these bikes are weak. It was about 91 before Yamaha went from a 2 brush starter to a 4 brush starter that cured the slow hot start. The later starters will swap out with yours

That's a slick piece of equipment! And they are not that expensive!

My old 85 Kawasaki ZN700 actually has a voltmeter! There is a button on the tachometer that when pushed shows voltage! Just some useless information....

I bought new ones from partzilla.

I bought the motion pro manometer type and I was disappointed. They had bubbles. I called the manufacturer and was told I needed to buy a refill kit. I sold them cheap and bought a gauge set that I am happy with. Just to make sure, I connected all four tubes and pulled a vacuum with my hand held mity vac and all the gauges read the same.

Wow! And I thought I had too many things to keep up!

And a whole lot of kids are growing up without their Dad around to control them.

Several decades ago, there was a saying that CA was 10 years ahead of the rest of the country?!!!!!!

The problem is the lack of law enforcement.

https://www.yamahapubs.com/home/search?category_id=3&year=2013&family_name=ROYAL+STAR+VENTURE+S

I'm retarded, uh, retired, and would be pleased to ride down most any day for a visit and a hamburger!

This forum is not like most forums. We actually try to be friends as well as forum members.

You may want to watch this series of videos about Venture maintenance. Fork bearing adjustment is covered in one of the videos. https://www.yamahaventure.nl/xvz-maintenance-video.html

Welcome! Lots of knowledgeable members and information here.

That's what they are saying on the Starbike forum, supposedly from a Yamaha source.

Any way to determine how many miles are on the bike? A buyer would surely be interested in knowing.

The RSV was sold thru 2013. You can pick up one of the older RSVs pretty cheap.

If you do a search you might find part numbers for an car thermostat that fits and costs less than the Yam part.

Nice bike! They are bringing surprisingly high prices these days it appears. I too owned a CB750 for a while. It was a 73 model bought used in 73.

Welcome aboard! The MKIIs, 86 and up have better front brakes. Many members have installed MkII front forks on their MkIs to get the better brakes, 4 piston calipers.