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Well Puc and I do both drink from the same water source. Hows that for scary. Not greasy burgers, BUTTER burgers, this state is Americas Dairyland after all.

Before you take anything apart, do a few checks with your volt meter to rule out a bad connection. If you have a bad wire somewhere the 4 brush will not help either. set meter to lowest volts scale. Connect black to battery negative terminal. not to the bolt or connector that is attached to the battery but get to the actual lead part of the terminal. Connect red to starter case. Crank starter. Any voltage displayed is power being lost by resistance in the ground circuit. anything much more than .2 volts is a problem to start hunting down. Now connect the red test lead to the positive battery terminal same as above. Connect the black lead to the post of the wire connection at the starter. Crank starter. Any voltage displayed is power being lost in the positive start circuit. because there are more connections there is more potential for power loss, but you want it to be under .5V. This test does not tell you where the problem is, it can just tell you that you have a problem, but you can use the same process to start narrowing things down to isolate the problem. The ground mod did make a big difference on my 2 brush starter. Then the heavier cables made another big difference.

Its the same.

While a 4 brush starter is the best solution, The ground mod that this thread is about is a definite improvement for those that may not have the cash for a 4 brush starter and is a great way to improve what you already have. I have the ground mod on my bike and see no real need for a 4 brush at this time.

Sounds like you at least have a plan. A plan is better than nothing. It is amazing how such a tiny bit of some drug can have such a profound effect on a body. If you are close to 90,000,000mg and you add 5mg of a drug and look what that tiny fraction of a percent did for you. Just amazing. Puc you keep your spirits up and that will help to keep the bad things down. Besides your buddies in MI are counting on you keep typing enough to keep me busy reading about your adventures all winter and out of the back shed. Prayers still comin your way buddy.

If you are going to do a lot of additional lighting, you may want to turn it off if the bike will be idling for long periods. Once up to cruising speed the output is much better to handle things. It is just at low RPM that you might have an issue. Which brings up another point, these engines like to sing a bit, don't try to ride it like a Harley, it wont like it. Keep the RPMs up.

Welcome What you are looking at is perfectly normal. That is just the way Yamaha set up the gage on this bike. Most all newcomers have the same concern. Mine runs on the edge of the red whether it is 70° or 100° out there. At 10° it will run lower...... The fan should turn on just below the edge of the red, drop the temp some and cycle back off. You can test this just idling in the driveway. We have some rules on this forum. We all love to see pics of bikes, especially new to you bikes. Don't let that @cowpuc character catch ya posting without pics, he aint far from ya is is just liable to ride down there to take pics and then take you and make you eat hot dogs....... Maybe even ice cream.....

It is normal for the acid to drop a bit on a new battery as all the air bubbles work there way out.

That does not look real difficult to make. But I might need to buy a couple cutters since I do not have CNC.

I type to slow........

Since you downloaded the simplified wire diagram all the connectors are removed. Download the non simplified and it may help a lot more. 6 L/B goes to cruise light on dash. 7 B is ground 8 W/G goes to speedo sensor, other side of sensor is ground. #1 is the R/W that is the wire that goes to the kill switch and is the power feed to the ignition module. I guess that if you kit kill the cruise should turn off too. 9 goes to the anode of a diode and to the flasher relay 10 goes to the anode of another relay and to the side stand switch and the side stand relay. 11, 12 go to the brake light.

I aint never moving.......

Do you by chance have a copy of the drawings?

Clean the wires real good. You have to get all of the oil out of the cloth braid that is over the wires. Pull a half to an inch of wire thru the rubber grommet. Clean the wires real good again getting all oil out of the braid. goop it up with some black RTV. work the RTV into the wire braid. Now pull the wire with the RTV back into the grommet. smooth out the RTV to make a nice fillet around the wires. This is how I did mine 6 years ago and it has not leaked yet.

Sure look little in those tiny pics.

Loctite does make a plastic safe formula. But if you got any of the blue loctite on the plastic while putting the screw thru the hole then you may have problems.

So glad to hear it is nothing to worry about. Ummmmm You weren't already bigger than the technician were you?..........

Glad you made it, at least you looked like you were having fun.

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=443&day=2015-3-28&c=1 http://www.venturerider.org/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=421&day=2014-9-20&c=1 http://www.venturerider.org/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=404&day=2014-3-15&c=1 AND You are correct, a 1000 machine is not much of an event. The lathe was only 1200 lbs. The surface grinder was 1800 lbs. The mill was only 3800 lbs. They all came down the wooden basement steps with two 90° turns. The mill was a bit of an event, had a good crowd for that one. It was the first machine down there. :snow2: :snow2: :snow2: :snow2: :snow2: :snow2: :snow2: :snow2: :snow2: Nutter mark in book.

Be careful putting better brakes on the rear. It is already very easy to lock the rear so you really do not need or want more brake back there.

If it is a standard then there is no class system, You use a small hand pump to adjust the air pressure to your needs.

Yes I do. But no one from your side of the pond has ever shown up.

It would take me forever to black out all that chrome. But then I have heard rumors that there some folks that actually like chrome.......

I try to remember to list a location for my events.

Yes it could easily be the jumpers dropping the voltage.