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Do some testing first See if there is power going to the TCI on the red/white wire while there is no spark. Also check the black/white wire at the TCI to be sure it is not connected to ground. There are a number of safety circuits on the bike that could turn off the ignition via these 2 wires. The TCI could be fine and something else could be the problem. The only way to test a TCI is to swap with a known good one.

This site has the service and owners manuals in the technical library. When you say the bike will not start, is it cranking but not firing, or is it not cranking at all?

:fingers-crossed-emoFingers crossed that this was an "honest" mistake. Even though it sounds more like the frying pan was starting to get to hot for them. Either way,I hope it all gets fixed quickly.

A cracked coil does not sound like the culprit, the odds of all 4 coils going in and out at the same time and temps is really high. These bikes run pretty good on 3 cylinders. I would believe more along the lines of a bad connector or a bad solder joint on a PC board, like maybe the TCI. You will need to do some testing while it is not working to track the culprit down. All the testing in the world while it is running will not tell you why it sometimes does not run.

Attach a battery powered Carbon Monoxide monitor to the back of you trunk and go for a ride. Then you will know if exhaust is getting there or not. Then repeat the test with the dog crate and no dog. Then make the monitor a permanent part of the crate to monitor all the time while riding with the dog. Do this same testing with a thermometer back there. The next thing to consider is the amount of bouncing that happens back there. The trunk location would not be a pleasant place to ride, all road bumps will be amplified by the geometry of the bike. The back of the bubble behind the fairing may collect engine heat, and if you have put on louder pipes it will be really loud back there.

It is hard to see in the pic, but it looks like you have not yet removed the snap ring from above the clamp? If the ring is still there the fork tube aint going nowhere.

ALL of the deer near me have made a trip thru the freezer........ Now I am just fighting with Bugs Bunny and Rocky the Squirrel. Bugs attacks at night so he is hard to spot, but Rocky attacks in daylight, He has a date with a small pellet and a puff of air.........Followed by a trip to the freezer.

Do you have to hang upside down like a vampire bat to wear that shirt?

Having the paper manual right there is best when actually doing planned work at home, that I why I have purchased paper manuals for all of my vehicles. But then I have also gotten electronic manuals for all of my vehicles that I store on both my desktop and my phone. If something goes wrong while on the road, working from the little pic on the phone is still way better than having a pretty manual on the shelf at home. Heck the service manual for my truck is 7 volumes at 2" thick each and weighs a good 30 lbs. I would not want to lug that around while traveling.

Even a BB gun or pellet gun will get Bambi's attention and make your garden a not fun place to go for dinner, and they are quiet enough to not bother the neighbors. On the other hand, in WI it is always open season for deer with a truck. Hopefully this weekend I can get my garden in. It was only a few weeks ago that there was still SNOW on the ground.

Get her..........

I am sure it is just a matter of time, and not a lot of time, before a SVTC ends up next to a 1st gen at a stop light, and then we will know.........

@cowpuc, Are you going to head south from the U.P. through WI and make it a trip around the pond or are you gonna backtrack thru MI? Ya know that if ya head south you could run into some WI troublemakers along the way.

Mine is not advertised YET. I need to finish painting the saddle bag covers to be the same color as the rest of the bike first, Then it will go up for sale for such a deal.

It looks like it all comes down to local laws, From what has been posted it looks like Canada does things different that the USA. And in the USA each state has there own way of doing things. In Wisconsin you can not even get a copy of your title until the loan is paid off. The bank holds the physical title in their vault. If you try to contact the state for a duplicate title the state will tell you to contact the bank. Since they will no longer talk to you, it is time to open up on them. Get everyone involved, HDFS, state Attorney General, local Media, State DMV, Yamaha corporate, Yamaha credit (or whomever has the new loan) Post office, FBI, and any other local legal sources that you may have by you. If they start getting a LOT of unwanted attention they may bend over backwards to fix this. You already tried to be nice. Point out the links of the dealer scam to the local media and tell them you are a victim, that is newsworthy if you catch them on a slow news day. You played the attorney card pretty early in the game and they are calling your bluff, now you have to decide if you were bluffing or not.

I fully understand your thoughts, That is why it is strictly a matter of personal preference. I am not trying to say one way is better or worse than the other, just offering up options. And maybe just a weeeee bit of .

I went thru the same thing on a car purchase and the plats not being handled correctly. I went back to the dealer and made them fix it on their dime, which they did.

A trick I learned a long time ago when you want to keep chips out of a hole, is to coat the drill with grease, the chips will stick in the grease. Then use a spiral flute tap (if you can find one in the correct thread), a spiral flute tap will pull the chips out of the hold toward the tap handle. Again coat the tap with grease instead of oil, the grease will hold the chips. I have used this to drill, tap and Heli-coil spark plug threads to not have to pull the heads. Ya do whatever works for you. I would have put in an insert to keep the original thread size. I hate having one SAE bolt on something that is otherwise all metric. But that is me.

Thanks, The wiring diagram is really the most important part of post 54 and that is now there. The other were just pics of my work that did not show as much as the diagram. Unfortunately I no longer have (or forgot where they are) a lot of the pics from my very old posts.

I can understand the feeling, I am paranoid of parking anywhere that the front of the bike is pointed down hill. I carry a short tie-down strap in my tool kit that I use to strap the side or center stand to the front crash bar to be certain it can not fold up. The strap rolls up to not much more space than a golf ball would take.

The key posts are; 19 45 54 66 68 Thanks

And FINALLY. The end. I got the new cement floor poured. Of course there was no way to have a small amount of ready mix delivered to the basement so it was a "small" mater of mixing and placing 24 bags of cement. Now in a few days I can put the basement back together so I can get to all of the other things that need to get done.

Another one please. Thank You http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?45603-Just-got-my-new-HID-headlight

Short answer is NOPE. To check the side stand, put the bike on the center stand, then lower the side stand and see if there is up and down play in it. You will not feel any movement with the weight of the bike on it. Doing the bolt mod is cheap and easy insurance.

There are a bunch of them on ebay right now. just search for it by P/N. 26H-27311-01-R4 https://www.ebay.com/itm/YAMAHA-1983-1984-1987-1988-VENTURE-83-93-ROYALE-KICKSTAND-SIDE-KICK-STAND/132483012641?hash=item1ed89a5821:g:H5oAAOSww-BaapGi There have been several posts in the last couple of months warning people to check this before it breaks.