Flyinfool

While I completely agree with the answer being that everyone has no tariffs or subsidies, that aint gonna happen in my lifetime. There are enough players in the game that will never even consider working from a level playing field.

Since I live in Milwaukee the home of Harley this is top billing in every news report with scouring for every last bit of details. Harley is one of the biggest if not the biggest employer in Milwaukee. Everything they do is big news here and watched like a hawk. There is a lot of misinformation floating around on this issue. Even Harley admits that making bikes overseas to import into the USA is a non starter, it would be suicide and will never happen. But they do already have plants outside of the USA where they make bikes for sales to other countries, and are currently building more plants in other countries to supply the international market. The Kansas city plant is not closing due to tariffs, it was already in the process of being closed with its production being moved to the York PA plant. As one local expert put it, the tariffs will hurt Harley over the next 2-3 years, BUT may actually help Harley be more profitable down the road buy forcing their hand to move some manufacturing overseas where labor is cheaper. I do not know if the made in USA sticker vs a made in Brazil sticker will have a big impact on Harley sales in Europe. I only say Brazil because it is the closest non USA plant to Europe. All of the non USA plants are listed as "assembly" plants. Many of the parts (engine and drive line) used at these plants still will come from the USA. Yes there will be jobs lost in the USA because of the tariffs. On the other hand there are some non USA companies that are looking to build manufacturing in the USA. Will it all be a wash? Will it turn out to be a good thing or a bad thing? Who knows? Short term it will be a bad thing for a lot of USA companies and consumers world wide. Cost of products to the end user will go up on both sides.

It is also amazing just how far some will travel with the lure of free food to come to your house and do some soldering or better yet teach you how to do some soldering. So you might meet a new friend and it might cost dinner..... That aint so bad.

Those red things are a failure ready to happen. They should be outlawed, they are so bad. When you use those they will cut several strands of the wires, reducing the wires ability to carry the required amps, they will breach the insulation with nothing to keep corrosion forming moisture out of the connection, and are made using a dissimilar metal to help promote galvanic corrosion.

Ouch!!! Good time to learn to be ambidextrous.......

Start by cleaning the battery pos and ground connections. Then we can get into more detail.

It could be a temperature sensitive component in a module. It could be a loose connection that is getting hot and when it gets hot and expands it breaks the connection until it cools off. The bad part is that it is nearly impossible to find it when it is running perfectly. You have to catch it in the act. You have to find the way to make it malfunction so that you can find where the fault is.

It looks like you may have the dreaded electrical intermittent. Unfortunately, as long as it is running there is no way to find the fault. The best you can do is to start it up and then start jiggling wires till you find the one that kills it.

I am not sure where the difference comes in between the 1st and 2nd gen, but it is well documented the the 2nd gen has to much rear brake and the 1st gen even delinked does not have enough rear brake. It may just be the difference in the geometry of the brake peddle and riding position that gives you a lot more leverage on the brake peddle, but the difference is there. The fix for a delinked 1st gen and the fix for a 2nd gen are very different and doing the wrong fix could be dangerous.

Yes the 2nd gen has its own rear brake issues, BUT the OP is trying to figure out his 1st gen rear brake. The 1st and 2nd gens are very different as far as rear brakes are concerned.

Back to the beginning. When it is cranking but not starting, is there power on the red/black wire at the ignition coils? At one point you did not have power and then you did. Is there power on the red/white wire at the 6 pin connector on the TCI? If you can get to it?

Yes those look like the load resistors for the LED turn signals.

I KNOW WHERE HE LIIiivs.....................

Yes the 2nd gens have to much rear brake and it is real easy to lock it up so many people use organic pads to get less rear brake. The first gens have weaker rear brake so you need to use a more aggressive brake pad to get good braking on the rear. When it comes to the rear brake the 1st and 2nd gens are opposites and have no similarity.

A few things that you mentioned. There are several brands of spark plugs, replace them all with the proper NGK plugs. The recommended plugs work great and are cheap. You mentioned running with the air filter removed. These bikes run absolutely terrible if the air filter is removed or even the cover off or loose some have tried to drill some holes in the air filter housing to let in more air and ended up taping the holes shut because it made the bike run bad. It is not uncommon for someone new to the venture to be running on just 3 cylinders and never know it. they run really well on 3, just the MPG and power will be a bit down, but if you do not know what is normal for these bikes you might not notice that it is a bit off.

I finally got my saddle bag lids painted and cleared this weekend, Now I just have to replace the hardware and the bike will be ready to put up for sale.

What brake pads do you have. The HH do have a lot more grip. I have to hit the rear really hard to get lock up, but you really do not want to lock brakes on a bike. I played with the peddle height to get the rear braking to be just shy of lock up. I have to make an effort to get lock, so that I am unlikely to lock the rear in a panic stop.

I have delinked my 88 and went with all SS lines from Skydoc_17. The stock linked brakes were really bad for where I drive. I have to drive on pavement with a LOT of loose gravel on it. With the linked brakes there was no way to stop without locking the front tire and risk going down. I completely removed the proportioning valve and plugged the Master where the line goes to the front. I put on HH pads all around. The rear is capable of locking the rear tire if you really stand on it. You can not get more braking power in the rear than that. You do have to make both front brakes work with the front master or the total braking power will be really bad.

I was playing with converting my 1st gen to EFI. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?128079-EFI-for-the-Ventures

Some people should be slapped when they even look at a wire......... Can you post a pic of the heat sink you are referring to? If it is the load resistor, there should be 2 of them, If there is only one then it is something else.

You are less likely to need a tip over switch on a trike, but we also have several members that have gotten their trikes shinny side down. If you manage to flip it you will want it to shut down.

You already identified a fault. might as well keep chasing what you know to be an issue. No power on the red/black wire at the coils. The red black wire gets its power thru the kill switch Via the red/white wire. The red/black wire is not powered by the Starter relay, the red black wire is providing power TO the starter relay. I would check the kill switch to see if there is power on the red white wire at all times when the ignition is on. Cycling the kill switch should then cycle power to the red/black wire. And since it is at the other end of the red/black wire the power at that one coil that you can get to should also cycle with the kill switch. You may have bad or dirty contacts in the kill switch. Once we know if the kill switch is good, that will tell us which direction to head from there for additional testing.

Just for you........

It would be a lot easier to just buy a new one. http://www.motorcycle-hitch.com/Yamaha.html They also come up on ebay fairly often.

Servant, Oh heck no, That is just how we work together. I do what I do well and she does what she does well. You obviously have never been in my basement............